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Macmillan Secondary Breast Cancer Care Co-ordinator
2 weeks ago
The Macmillan Secondary Breast Cancer Nursing Team are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative individual to join their award winning team as a Band 4 Macmilllan Secondary Breast Cancer Care Co-ordinator.
The post is 30 hours (ideally over 5 days) and involves supporting the Macmillan Secondary Breast Cancer nurse specialists and breast palliative care nurse specialist, in co-ordinating high quality care for palliative patients.
To work as part of the Macmillan Secondary Breast Cancer Nursing Team, providing an administration and care coordination role
Co-ordinate Cancer Nursing issues and being involved in service development.
Co-ordinate efficient and effective first-line support to cancer patients and their families.
Communicating effectively (daily and directly, face to face and telephone) with a range of individuals on various levels, e.g. patients, relatives, carers and other health professionals.
Taking the lead in organising, delivering and evaluating the health and wellbeing days as an ongoing project
The post holder will be expected to work with all grades of medical and nursing staff
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, situated in south Manchester, is the largest cancer treatment centre of its kind in Europe and an international leader in cancer research and development.
In 2018 The Christie NHS Foundation Trust was once again rated as Outstanding by the CQC health regulator becoming the first specialist trust in the country to be given their highest accolade twice.
**Responsibilities**:
3. Coordinate and organize appointments, assessments and investigations as required
4. Make pre planned telephone calls to patients to enable proactive prevention of crisis approach.
5. Demonstrate the ability to recognize and respond appropriately when faced with a deterioration or emergency situation, alerting the team or enabling rapid response.
6. Provide general information and support about cancer and cancer services to enable navigation of health and social care doing referrals where appropriate.
7. Accept referrals for the Macmillan secondary Breast Specialist Nurses and Palliative Care Specialist Nurse from other Health Care Professionals. Liaise with all grades and disciplines of staff within the Trust, the Community and other hospitals as appropriate.
8. Use of Desk-top Publishing/Advanced computer skills for the production of in-house patient information leaflets, PowerPoint teaching presentations, business cards for the Macmillan Team.
9. Appropriate use of relevant information technology systems, e.g. Patient data base
10. Required to work using own initiative, without supervision.
11. Manage own workload and work independently.
12. Organization and administration of Clinics, including ensuring all appropriate referral paperwork is available and typing all related correspondence.
13. Being aware of Trust procedures and policies.
14. Represent the Macmillan Secondary Breast Cancer Team as appropriate at Conferences and Open Days.
15. Administrate and accurately facilitate meetings with both nursing team and Secondary Breast Cancer Focus Group.
16. Co-ordinate specific areas of work emerging from the Greater Manchester Cancer in liaison with the Cancer Nurse Specialists and be involved in any long term projects being involved in service development and change.
17. Take the lead in planning and implementation of health and wellbeing days as an ongoing long term project ensuring evaluation is carried out. This will include attending the events, deputizing for presenters, being a safeguarding advocate and managing attendee invitations and lists
18. Extensive knowledge and understanding of medical terminology required to transcribe patient notes and letters and to be able to accept complex medical referrals to the Macmillan secondary Breast Cancer Service from other Health Professionals. This detailed information must be accurately relayed to the Macmillan secondary specialist Nurses or palliative care specialist Nurse.
20. Ability to deal empathically with distressed patients
21. To be able to order/ sign off from the breast care nurses trust fund
Education and Development
1. Promote healthy lifestyle choices and risk stratified supported self-management as part of consistent and planned care.
2. Support and contribute to audit processes, governance, research, clinical research trials, benchmarking activities and service development, including using findings and recommendations to change practice/systems.
3. Develop, manage and maintain databases monitor the processing of this data.
4. Analyse and interpret information and be able to present it different ways so it can be easily understood at a wide range of levels.
5. Demonstrate and awareness of the limits of own practice and knowledge and when to seek support/advice.
6. Take responsibility for personal development and education by demonstrating self-directed learning, actively seeking professional development opportunities to enhance pra
