Bridgend - Dermatology Health Care Support Worker / Navigator

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

This post will support the Consultant and Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) for Dermatology cancer within the Princess of Wales Hospital.

The post will include guiding patients and their families through their cancer journey, signposting them to the relevant available support.

A key element of the role will be ensuring co-ordination of care for Dermatology cancer patients across the cancer pathway.

Main duties of the job

They will be a valuable point of contact for the patient and their family, throughout their journey.

The successful candidate will; undertake a range of assigned tasks involving direct and indirect care for the benefit of the cancer patient in accordance with agreed protocols.

They will have excellent communication skills; be able to work confidently with a number of different electronic systems; be well organised having good time management skills; and the ability to work as part of a team or on their own initiative.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job Description and person specification which is in the attached documentation of job description and person specification

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to NVQ level 3 with additional relevant specialist training, or working towards, in a range of nursing procedures and practices to diploma level equivalency.
• Knowledge and understanding of key NHS strategic policies e.g. Together for Health Cancer Delivery Plan
• Relevant experience in AFC Band 2 or 3 and experience of working

• 5 GCSE’s including English and Mathematics – Grades A-C or equivalent

experience

• Understanding of Cancer Support and its role across the UK.

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.