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Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical duties and responsibilities

• Plan and manage own workload and the workload of the service, in a flexible manner, ensuring that service provision meets the need of patients.
• Work with the clinical team to formulate clinical decisions and complex treatment plans to manage acute radiotherapy toxicity and psychosocial issues by responding to actual and potential health problems appropriately. 

• Oversee and coordinate the referral and treatment pathway for patients referred for proton beam therapy (PBT).
• Manage the referral and treatment pathway for patients who require general anaesthetic.
• Accept and make appropriate referrals from/to other professional colleagues.
• Contribute to the coordination and effective management of the admission and discharge process.
• Prepare accurate and concise records and reports both verbal and written.
• Communicate with the patient’s referring specialist, GP and other community and hospice based services at regular intervals as appropriate. 
• Practice evidence based health care and be responsible for developing, monitoring and updating clinical policies in relation to own area of practice.
• Act as an expert resource and provide advice to ward/departmental areas and the wider community.
• Attend and participate in all relevant MDT’s and clinics ensuring relevant information relating to patient treatment and care is communicated and received.

Patient Care

• Develop a relationship that recognises the person (patient/family member/carer) as an individual.
• Give information, at an appropriate level of understanding, to ensure a patient is fully informed along all stages of the patient pathway.
• Develop and update patient specific information which is age appropriate.  

·       Co-ordinate the patient journey ensuring appointments and information is communicated to the patient in a timely fashion.  

• Act as a patient advocate with clear feedback systems in place to the MDT and referring hospitals.
• Communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to patients and carers. This may include diagnosis, results of scans or other investigations, management options and details of prognosis.
• Asses on a regular basis whether more support or advice is needed and offered where appropriate.
• Provide an important point of contact for the patient and those around them both during and after completion of treatment, ensuring continuation of care.

Supervisory and Managerial Responsibilities.

• Contribute to the clinical governance process, including adverse incident reporting/investigation and the management of complaints, as appropriate. 
• Attend meetings at managerial, Trust committee and local Trust partnership level, acting as advocate for area of work and profession.

• Identify gaps in service provision and work with the MDT and cancer network to implement the changes required to improve service provision.

Responsibilities for human resources

• Work closely with team to ensure relevant MDT meetings and clinics are staffed.

Professional and Personal Development

• Act in accordance with the HCPC code of professional conduct: standards for conduct and ethics.

• Provide evidence of continued professional development in the form of a professional practice portfolio to meet the revalidation requirements of the HCPC. 

·       Be flexible in line with evolving radiotherapy service across all Christie sites.

·       Ensure patient confidentiality at all times.

·       Maintain patient safety and dignity.

·       Comply with policies and procedures of the Trust.

·       Participate in performance development review and evaluate own clinical practice.

• Keep up to date on essential training.

Teaching and Training 

• Take an active role in the training of all learners in radiotherapy.
• Educate patients and their carers on issues surrounding health promotion and illness prevention.
• Promote and facilitate changes to lifestyle where appropriate. 

Research and Audit

• Facilitate radiotherapy research.
• Keep up to date with current research and publications.
• Initiate and support clinical audit with respect to evaluating service effectiveness and future developments within the role, developing and managing strategies to address any shortfalls.
• Disseminate relevant research findings to colleagues and members of the health professions via presentation and publication.

• Assist in development of relevant protocols in the radiotherapy quality system