Cancer Pathway Coordinator

3 months ago


Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**The post holder will be responsible for**:
**Patient Navigating**:
Prospective and proactive management of the inter-trust cancer pathway, monitoring, reporting and tracking cancer patients, ensuring that the patient’s journey is processed in a timely and efficient manner, in line with the SSG agreed pathway and with the Cancer Waiting Times Targets.

Resolving delays in the pathway at the earliest opportunity and where this is not possible escalating issues in accordance with Trust and network procedures

**The post holder will be responsible for**:
**Patient Navigating**:
Prospective and proactive management of the inter-trust cancer pathway, monitoring, reporting and tracking cancer patients, ensuring that the patient’s journey is processed in a timely and efficient manner, in line with the SSG agreed pathway and with the Cancer Waiting Times Targets.

Resolving delays in the pathway at the earliest opportunity and where this is not possible escalating issues in accordance with Trust and network procedures

**S/LMDT**:
Co-ordinating and providing administrative support to the cancer S/LMDT(s), ensuring that all relevant paperwork and clinical information is available including case notes, imaging and pathology as necessary. To attend S/MDT’S keeping comprehensive records of attendance, outcomes as discussed.

Ensuring the timely and efficient transfer of patients and information between trusts involved in the patient pathway, adhering to network SSG agreed communication pathways and protocols

**Data collection and analysis**:
Ensuring data collection is undertaken in a prospective manner, assuring accuracy at all times. Using both local and national datasets, including Open Exeter and the Trust Cancer waiting Times data base.

Analysing target breaches and report to Cancer Manager and Lead S/LMDT clinician and S/LMDT Service Improvement Clinical Lead

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Patient Navigating

To navigate patients through their care pathway, from point of referral to treatment, in accordance with the pathway steps and timescales agreed by the SSG. Using hospital IT systems of reporting including PAS, endoscopy reporting systems, radiology reporting systems and histology.

To proactively pre-book appointments in accordance with the SSG agreed pathway ensuring that wherever possible patients reach each step in accordance with SSG agreed pathway timescales.

To escalate diagnostic appointments for target patients, (if booked outside the appropriate timescale).

To proactively identify and resolve delays at all stages in the patient pathway. Where this is not possible, to follow the escalation procedure and network policy for inter-trust transfers, highlighting any relevant issues to line Management.

To ensure that patients who require transfer to a tertiary centre are transferred in accordance with the network and SSG agreed timescales, using the appropriate SMDT referral proforma. Making sure that the SMDT referral proforma is complete and sent to the centre within 24hours of the clinical decision to refer the patient and that that all the clinical information as specified by the SSG is transferred within agreed timescales.

To highlight any bottlenecks within the process, communicating regularly with line management, and where possible suggesting and implementing solutions.

To liaise with other Trusts both within the Network and outside, in order to achieve continuous monitoring of the patients pathway.

To identify and advise clinical teams on when waiting times adjustments can be made to the patient journey, ensuring these are accurately documented.

L/SMDT Co-ordination

To ensure that the room is booked and prepared prior to the S/LMDT, schedule future dates for S/LMDT meetings and ensure a suitable venue is booked on an annual

To assist in the preparation of patients lists for S/LMDT, collating information provided by Lead Clinicians, nurse specialists and medical secretaries. To ensure that all members are advised of meetings and any change of date, venue, etc.

To oversee that all clinical inform



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