Stroke Mdt Coordinator

**Working hours**: 37.5 hours per week

An exciting development opportunity exists for the post holder to take primary responsibility for the facilitation of Stroke MDT meetings, ensuring they run effectively and are well structured. They will ensure that all patients referred are discussed in line with stroke MDT operational policies.

Providing administrative support to the stroke multi-disciplinary team meetings, this includes preparing and maintaining all related documentation and information to support the stroke MDT database. Ensuring patient treatment plans and multi-disciplinary team decisions are recorded in to the designated stroke database, with appropriate updates when relevant actions have been executed.

The post holder will also initiate and maintain the local, Stroke Sentinel National Audit Program database. All targeted data entries will be made timely ensuring data accuracy at all times. This will involve monitoring and analysing the Trust’s performance against the SSNAP targets. In order to aid service development you will provide and present support data relating to Stroke Team performance at a local and National level including data extraction to highlight fluctuations.

Alongside the stroke nurse coordinator service the post holder will maintain the Stroke Admissions Register, referrals and Stroke Association logs to ensure a seamless safe and effective service provision.

We are looking for a dedicated, hardworking and enthusiastic individual to enhance and support our passionate, committed and effective Stroke Team. To work in close collaboration with the Stroke Clinical Lead, Stroke Lead Nurse, Stroke Ward Managers, Lead Therapists and the Stroke Nurse Coordinators service. The role demands a high level of accuracy and attention to detail and understanding of the relevant audit and data base requirements.

Knowledge of patient administration system Cerner and the SSNAP Audit would be an advantage as this post involves facilitation of the MDT meetings; ensuring patients are managed along the stroke pathway in accordance with local and National Guidelines for Stroke management including the Stroke Sentinel National Audit Program.

The successful applicant will possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills will be efficient at organising and prioritising a busy workload and remain calm under pressure; they will have strong regard and appreciation of patient confidentiality.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.