Patient Flow Co Ordinator - Cancer Services

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge in medicine and oncology by tracking our patients through our services. There are 2 initiatives this role will focus on: -     -   Liver surveillance for high-risk patients – tracking patients onto a database to ensure they get their liver surveillance in a timely way. -       - Smoother patient flow through Chemotherapy (SACT) treatments – tracking their pharmacy charts/ pathway etc.

Main duties of the job

• Collaboratively case manage the tracking the described cohort of patients within the defined clinical area, with guidance and support from the Medical/ Cancer Nursing team.
• To act as a resource providing pathway advice, support and information to clinical teams to ensure patients have their treatment/ surveillance in a safe and effective way.
• To support members of the Multi-disciplinary team to work effectively in delivering care in a timely way.
• To ensure information, advice and services are available in a timely way to ensure smooth management, onward referral when needed, keeping updated with any onward capacity issues and ensuring this is communicated clearly with relevant staff.
• To assist with the assessment of patient tracking with the support of a qualified practitioner when needed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

' Do you care about patients' safety and quality of care?

If yes, come and join us with this exciting role whereby your input will enhance the care of patients undergoing chemotherapy and associated treatments. Your role will be to support the team in ensuring patients prescriptions are taken to pharmacy and returned in a timely way to ensure patients get their treatments in a timely holistic way, supporting patients and the whole team.

You will work across all teams - medical/nursing and pharmacy as a key and valued member of our team.

Another aspect to the role will be to ensure that patients are logged onto our surveillance system for liver surveillance, another key aspect of ensuring our patients are safe and get their treatment on time.

This is a unique and varied role that will evolve over time. Is it currently as a fixed term contract for 12 months funded by the cancer alliance, but you will work as part of our NHS team with all the terms and conditions that come with that. This role would be suited to someone who is either just coming into the NHS or wants to progress their career.

You will be well supported by the team and will be able to shape this service under the supervision of the Lead SACT (chemotherapy) Sister.'