Do you have good communication skills and never miss a deadline?
Pathway Navigators are administrative, patient facing roles. They work as part of a team to support patients who have been referred from their GP with a possible cancer diagnosis. These roles were introduced to Wessex in 2022.
The majority of Pathway Navigators work at the start of the patient journey until they are diagnosed with a cancer or discharged back to their GP. It is not a clinical role. Occasionally experience, training and service need may allow some navigators to take on some clinical duties.
As a Pathway Navigator, you are most likely to:
- work in a hospital setting
- work with nurses and doctors as well as other administrative roles
- become a point of contact for patients, answering queries and explaining procedures
- track patient pathways to ensure they attend all the appointments they need to
- take on administrative tasks to free up clinical staff to see more patients
