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PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Communication

• Serve as a main point of contact for the projects that are involved in.
• Liaise with finance team to ensure invoices are paid.
• Receive and interpret sensitive and highly confidential information in an efficient and professional manner.
• Meet with various staff to ensure projects are moving ahead as appropriate.
• Cascade complex information to administrative teams of changes to processes.
• Support with training of new systems / processes that have come from projects

Knowledge, training and experience

• Understanding of Christie PAS systems including careflow and CWP, specifically the waiting list and patient appointments functionalities.
• Experience of using integra to order items and sign off purchase orders.
• Financial knowledge of budgets and expenditure.
• Experience of interacting with project plans is desirable.

Analytical and judgemental skills

• Closely monitor patient waiting lists to ensure patients have appropriate appointments to adhere to cancer pathway targets.
• Work carefully on projects and compare data analysis to help improve the service.

Planning and organisational skills

• Work to tight deadlines set by project leads.
• Plan and organise workload to ensure all tasks are completed in a timely manner.
• Show initiative when dealing with tasks.
• Plan and attend multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings on an ad-hoc basis in times of support and cover. Working flexibly to late notice changes to the list, deferring patients or accommodating additional listings, ensuring all documentation is received in time for the meeting. Hearing and recording information regarding patients’ care.
• Take minutes from MDT meetings and share them with the relevant parties. Ensure these are accurately uploaded to the specialist system for complete record keeping.

Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation

• Follow all relevant policies and procedures, in particular in relation to the Data Protection Act. Ensure researchers are working to the relevant policies and procedures.
• Be pro-active in monitoring working practices and suggesting new ways of working and implementing them.
• Implement new SOPs and working procedures as required.

Freedom to act

• The post holder is expected to follow all relevant policies, SOPs and standard practice.
• Plans and organises own time and workload activity with prioritisation.
• Able to work independently using own initiative.

Physical, Mental and Emotional Effort

• Long periods of time spent using a keyboard to input information.
• Prolonged concentration is required.

Training and Personal Development

• Maintain professional development whilst evaluating own specialist knowledge through a process of appraisal and personal development planning to satisfy the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework requirements relating to the job.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships.