Cancer Care Coordinator

Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference to people's lives?

We are delighted to invite applications for a Cancer Care Coordinator to join our warm, supportive and collaborative multidisciplinary team at Coastal Fareham & Gosport PCN.

As a key member of our Primary Care Network, you will be based within a local cluster of GP practices working closely with patients, their families and carers to ensure they receive compassionate and high-quality support.

We are looking for someone who is:

Caring and person centered with a genuine desire to improve patient experience.

Dedicated and reliable, able to build trusting relationships with a wide range of people.

An excellent communicator, both in writing and face to face.

Highly organised, with strong time management skills.

Motivated and proactive, eager to learn, collaborate and contribute to continuous improvement.

Flexible, adaptable and confident working as part of a multidisciplinary team.

If you are committed to providing exceptional care and would like to grow your skills within a supportive and forward thinking environment, we would love to hear from you.

Interviews to be held week of 23rd February 2026

Care Coordinators play an important role within Primary Care Networks (PCNs), working proactively to identify and support individuals - including the frail/elderly, early diagnosis of cancer and end of life care. In this role you will coordinate and navigate across a range of health and social care services, ensuring patients receive a seamless and person-centred approach.

You will work closely with the wider PCN team and contribute to the implementation and delivery of the NHS England Early Cancer Diagnosis Designated Enhanced Service.

You will ensure that patients affected by cancer are provided with timely information, appropriate onward referrals, and support tailored to their individual needs.

The role also involves supporting practices across the PCN to enhance the quality of their cancer-related services, including improving the uptake of national cancer screening programmes.

You will support MDT meetings and manage a caseload of patients identified through these discussions, collaborating with the Cancer Clinical Lead and Clinical Care Coordinator.

This is a pivotal position within the PCN, essential to strengthening multidisciplinary ways of working and ensuring coordinated, compassionate care for patients living with cancer.

Overview of your organisation

About Coastal Fareham & Gosport PCN

Coastal Fareham and Gosport Primary Care Network was formed in 2019, bringing together three established independent practices:

• Lockswood Surgery
• Stubbington Medical Practice

With a patient population of approximately 39,000 we serve a largely suburban area between Portsmouth and Southampton. We are equidistant from Queen Alexandra Hospital and Southampton General Hospital, allowing us to collaborate with major local healthcare providers.

Our mission is the practices within the PCN will work collaboratively, whilst maintaining their independence, to provide additional services for all our patients. We aim to empower patients to improve their own health and wellbeing.

To assist the Primary Care Network (PCN) in delivering improvements to the services we provide our patients in relation to the following aspects of patient care - Participation in national cancer screening programmes.

Ensuring robust and supportive referral practices are in place for patients suspected of having cancer; including use of guidelines, professional development, and safety netting of those referred.

In support of collaborative working the post holder will form productive and supportive relationships with practice staff who have the skills, knowledge and remit to contribute to this work. e.g., GP practice non clinical cancer champions, social prescribers, pharmacists, secretaries etc.

The post holder will assist the PCN constituent practices to evaluate their screening uptake and engage hard to reach populations and to reduce health inequalities. This will include working alongside practices to enhance processes to track and follow-up screening non-responders.

Take forward proactive monitoring and tracking of patients suspected or confirmed of having a cancer diagnosis ensuring that their journey is processed in a timely and efficient manner, in line with Cancer Waiting Time Targets.

Provide advice and support to practices on cancer audit/referral review of cancer diagnoses. To work with practices to collate the learning from case reviews to identify any trends or learning.

Develop with core staff across the PCN consistent safety netting approaches/systems to monitoring patients who have been referred urgently with suspected cancer or for further investigations to exclude the possibility of cancer.

Provide the PCN with support to host peer-to-peer learning events that look at data and trends in diagnosis and screening across a Network. Including…