Cancer Services Information Assistant

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a cancer information assistant based at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.

The successful candidate will proactively assist with managing patients through their Urgent Cancer pathway. The post holder will work with a variety of staff and departments to ensure appointments, diagnostics and treatment are booked, reported and available in a timely manner to meet the needs of the patient, service and national targets.

We require a hardworking, motivated individual who has excellent communication skills who is IT literate with a good knowledge and understanding of computer packages.

Great organisational skills and the ability to manage and prioritise their work accordingly is paramount.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of the Cancer Services Team by collecting information on appropriate cancer site-specific patients and entering it onto the CANISC and Tracker 7 databases, enabling the specialist teams to monitor their activity, clinical outcomes and performance against the National Cancer Standards and Patient pathway targets. The post holder will maintain accurate databases containing cancer information, and carry out routine data validation and cleansing. They will be aware of, and report to the Cancer Services Supervisor, any issues or problems relating to data quality and completeness.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

We listen, learn and improve

We treat everyone with respect

We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.