Job Overview
The Cancer Services department at Frimley Park Hospital is a busy service comprised of Tumour Site Specific Multi-Disciplinary Teams.
We are looking for a highly motivated and proactive individual, who has experience of working within a team environment, who will virtually navigate patients through their care pathway from point of referral to treatment in accordance with agreed pathway steps and timescales, proactively identifying and resolving delays at all stages. They need a strong understanding of the two week wait, 28 day, 31 day and 62 day targets, will ideally have previous NHS experience, along with excellent IT, communication, interpersonal skills and the ability to prioritise and organise their own work with minimal supervision.
The successful applicant will be a person that embodies the Trust Values and has the competencies to fulfil the core role, which requires the ability to efficiently and effectively co-ordinate tumour site specific Multi – Disciplinary Team meetings, track patients against Cancer Waiting Times targets to ensure Minimum Data Sets and Audits are completed, and capturing and accurately recording the relevant data for each patient in line with the National Data requirements.
The department encourages continuous personal development by supporting staff to attend study days, conferences and offering access to training.
Main duties of the job
- To actively track patient’s progress through the patient pathway to ensure that care is carried out in a timely fashion on daily basis and follows escalation and tracking process on PTL (Patient Tracking Tool).
- Specific co-ordination and actioning of process of cross site referrals to another specialty (internal within the Trust)
- General co-ordination and actioning of MDT – eg. Tracking patients post MDT, updating with requested investigations, referrals to tertiary centres, and general pathway progress on SCR
- To facilitate multidisciplinary team meeting discussion and ensure cancer data is captured and recorded on Somerset
- To ensure that all cancer patients are identified and discussed at MDT meetings.
- To ensure patients’ diagnoses, investigations, and management and treatment plans are recorded on Somerset to ensure cancer data uploaded is accurate.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent
Skills
Essential criteria
- Microsoft Office skills (including, Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint)
Desirable criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels
MDT skills
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using Video Conferencing Equipment
Healthcare Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an office or similar environment
Desirable criteria
- Healthcare sector experience
NHS
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the Patient Administration System (EPIC)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of in-house Somerset Cancer Register
Time keeping
Essential criteria
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
Desirable criteria
- Ability to pay close attention to detail and time frames
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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