Haematology Inpatient Chemotherapy Co-ordinator
3 months ago
Band 4
**Main area**
- Haematology
**Grade**
- Band 4
**Contract**
- Secondment: 12 months
**Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
**Job ref**
- 164-5175067-A
**Site**
- Nottingham City site
**Town**
- Nottingham
**Salary**
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
**Salary period**
- Yearly
**Closing**
- Today at 23:59
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you organised, independent, proactive, determined and enthusiastic? Do you like working with people and enjoy problem solving?
This is a new post, funded initially for 1 year by the East Midlands Cancer Alliance. You will introduce a navigator role in haematology, to track patients during their inpatient chemotherapy journey. You will help to improve workflow, ensuring chemotherapy can be delivered faster and more safely. This will result in reduced hospital length of stay, improved patient satisfaction.
You will work closely with nursing, medical and pharmacy teams and be supported by an enthusiastic senior team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the scheduling of elective inpatient chemotherapy admissions and treatments, ensuring requests are dealt with efficiently and in a timely manner and that Trust Cancer targets are met.
The post holder will work closely with clinical colleagues to monitor and assist with the flow of patients and treatments for the haematology wards.
Working for our organisation
This post offers you the opportunity to work as part of an established and friendly team in one of the UK's largest and busiest acute NHS teaching hospital Trusts. NUH is a Cancer Centre providing a regional service to a population of over 3 million.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for working with the nurses, doctors and pharmacy to ensure patients receive chemotherapy within specified timeline including co-ordination of test results, scans, prescribing and preparation of chemotherapy prior to admission..
Ensure that consent for chemotherapy is obtained prior to or upon admission to the unit, to support the timely delivery of systemic anti-cancer treatment, with the specific focus of commencing C1 chemotherapy regimens within business hours where reasonably practicable.
Coordinate and expedite the collection of blood sampling and review of results to support timely communication with pharmacy that a patient is safe to proceed with treatment.
Ensure a current weight is documented on nerve centre to ensure the accurate prescribing of systemic anti-cancer treatment.
Effectively plan for the elective admissions. Including, but not limited to the preparation of documentation, liaising with the Clinical Nurse Specialist Teams, coordinating investigations, and effectively communicate with patients and their carers.
In conjunction with the multidisplinary team and service manager, map the existing process for elective chemotherapy admissions and scope systems for improving the visibility of bed management
Responsible for identifying potential breaches against Trust targets and taking timely action to avoid breaches.
Receiving triaging and handling calls from patients relating to their admission.
To be responsible and accountable for identifying and communicating potential problems at an early stage, liaising with clinical colleagues and non-clinical staff at all levels
To be responsible and accountable for cross checking Medway and bookwise for forward planning and accuracy
To be responsible for ensuring databases are up to date
Deal appropriately with enquiries, by telephone and in person, from staff and patients, seeking advice or referring elsewhere if necessary
Working closely with Ward manager to identify appropriate training for staff, to facilitate improved performance and personal career development in accordance with Trust policy/procedures
Responsible for management of KPI’s to support delivery of Trust Access Targets in line with departmental SOP’s
To work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the best possible service is provided
Person specification
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
- Must be able to clearly and accurately convey information verbally to different audiences including patients, GPs, Medical PAs, Consultants, Managers, hospital admin & clinical staff
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisational/co-ordination/work prioritisation skills and meticulous attention to detail
- Demonstrates an understanding of financial implications of bed utilisation/scheduling
Physical skills
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 4 or equivalent
- Educated to GCSE standard with passes at grade C or above for English and Maths or similar through vocational training
- Evidence of commitment to continued learning or improvement through attendances at courses.
- Good command of the English lang
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