Specialist Palliative Care Administrator - Peterborough

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time administrator to work as part of, and to support, the Peterborough and Stamford’s Specialist Palliative Care Hospital and Community Team, this post includes:

• To provide efficient and comprehensive administrative support to the Peterborough and Stamford’s Specialist Palliative Care Community and Hospital Teams.
• To perform all allocated clerical tasks required to meet the needs of the service.
• To undergo training as necessary to meet the needs of new developments within the specialist service.
• Managing individual workload in order to meet project deadlines assigned to the post holder.
• Adaptable to change management.
• Excellent team player with good communication skills.
• Enthusiastic, motivated, ability to prioritise and work independently.
• To support the Administrative Team Leader for the Specialist Nursing Team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:-

• Be responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out in accordance with the correct procedures and policies.

• Support the Lead Palliative and End of Life Nurse and the specialist team in developing the service and maintaining all its standards in line with NICE measures.
• Support workloads within the speciality.

• Maintain up to date records as requested by individual team members with regard to patient information.

• Actively take part in team meetings; including agenda setting, minute taking, room booking and ensuring meetings are attended by relevant staff by organising dates well in advance and communicating to all appropriate staff.
• Prepare documentation ready for the specialist palliative MDT weekly and facilitate these meetings.

• Deal sensitively and effectively with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives and colleagues.
• Ensure that data collection complies with the Caldicott and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached detail Job Description and Person Specification for more information regarding this role