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• Job reference: 260962
• Salary: Band 4 (£31,537 - £34,303)
• Job closing date: 22/10/2026
• Job Type: Administrative Services
• Location: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
• Employment type: Fixed-term
• Hours Per Week: 36
• Job posted date: 08/10/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
• Department: CTR

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Fixed Term - 1 year

This role supports individuals with potential or diagnosed cancer.

The post holder will be an identified and consistent point of contact for patients and speciality teams to manage patient cancer pathways.

To provide essential coordination between hospital departments/services to ensure patients are kept informed to reduce anxiety and ensure efficiency within the cancer pathway. To ensure waiting time targets are achieved and to escalate where required.

In conjunction with the Clinical Team, coordinate access to the right information and education resources to support patients throughout the complex cancer pathways.

Develop a partnership approach to working to empower the patient and carers.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact June.mccartney@nhs.scot

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.