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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Conduct lung health check assessments to assess eligibility to participate in the Targeted Lung Health Check programme and eligibility for further investigations, as well as providing basic advice and support.

• Communicate effectively and compassionately with patients and providing reassurance and support, sometimes in complex circumstances.

• Respond to telephone calls and monitor the TLHC generic inbox on a regular basis.

• Assist the nursing team in the timely communication of CT results to patients through the dispatch of letters and, when necessary, by telephone.

• Inform patients of basic findings on their CT scan, such as emphysema or coronary artery calcification, and educate patients on healthy lifestyles as well as encouraging patients to stop smoking and provide very brief advice when required.

• Work closely with the nursing team, the responsible clinician and responsible radiologist in the organization and scheduling of the weekly screening review meeting and set up cases to be reviewed in Soliton.

• Assisting the senior nursing team in ensuring that all actions from screening review meeting have been done and navigating the patient through this until discharge.

• Liaising and referring patients to other appropriate healthcare professionals/specialities such as smoking cessation or lung function tests.

• Navigate the patient ensuring that they follow the TLHC pathway as per current protocols, ensuring all patients have the same level of interventions and continued follow up when required.

• Tracking the two week wait referrals, updating patient data systems, sending completed proformas, liaising with the lung cancer team on sent referrals and discharges back to the TLHC programme.

• Following patients up, ensuring that they attend their follow up CT scan appointments, as well as following up CT DNA/cancellations, contacting patients by telephone or by letter when unreachable, and stressing on the importance of attending their CT scan appointment.

• Take part and organise health promotion activities in particularly focusing on increasing screening uptake and tackling health inequalities utilising attendance at events, targeting relevant groups and charities and utilising social media to send targeted messages about the importance of Lung Health checks screening and smoking cessation.

Data Collection and Analysis

• Assist in the management of TLHC patients’ data and undertaking regular audits.

• Work closely with the administrative team to oversee the accurate input of data from patients reviewed during screening review meetings into the patient tracker, ensuring effective tracking and monitoring thereafter.

• Assist in maintaining and developing the Targeted Lung Health Check patient databases.

• Ensure strict adherence to confidentiality standards and compliance with privacy regulatio

Quality Issues

• Assist in the development of care pathways and implement improvements to the administrative element of the pathway.

• Ensure that directorate administrative and clerical functions are carried out to the highest quality standards by monitoring and improving services.

• Monitoring patients’ progress throughout the pathway and ensuring patients are within the correct pathway.

• Identify areas where targets are not achieved and undertake process mapping to identify bottlenecks and improve performance

Professional

• To participate and display a willingness to learn and develop in any relevant technical competency/area of interest and keep up to date with current local and national issues and developments.

• To be responsible for own learning in knowledge base relevant to own clinical area including mandatory training.

• To participate in regular formal supervision and develop a personal development plan that links into KSF and departmental competency frameworks to promote learning and enhance skills.

• To be responsible for managing own daily timetable of delegated tasks including time for supervision and training.

• Ensuring that the work is always done within their scope of work and escalate any concerning issues to the Clinical Staff.

Other Responsibilities.

• To undertake any such duties as may be required from time to time, that are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade.

• To comply with the Trusts and departments policies, guidelines, and procedures.

• To attend all mandatory training as required in line with the Trust employment and professional need.

• To participate in team meetings and the review and development of Targeted Lung Health Check Team.

• To be responsible for informing the line manager of any issues relating to the ability to safely carry out duties.

• To be aware of departmental duties and initiatives to ensure a safe environment, recognising patients’ requirements for privacy and dignity.

• To recognise and comply with the Trust and departmental policies and procedures for incident reporting.

• To always ensure confidentiality in accordance with Trust policy and procedure.

For further details please see the attached job description.