Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer Services
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 245-ADM3CAN-07-24
- Employer
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tameside Hospital
- Town
- Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Cancer Diagnostic Facilitator
Band 3
Job overview
Cancer Diagnostic Facilitator
To assist the Cancer Services Team in the management of patient pathways, ensuring that patients are reviewed diagnosed and treated within the National Cancer Waiting Time targets.
Assist in the processes that provide Quality Assurance of cancer services that the Trust provide. To collect record and validate a wide range of cancer data as required for the national cancer data sets.
The will include monitoring referrals and whether tests have been requested, reported and acted upon. This will include contacting patients, gathering data and providing the necessary information for real time feedback to external and internal teams.
To liaise with a wide range of departments and staff to gather information required for the cancer MDT meetings. To take responsibility for ensuring this information is available within a set timeframe allowing for informed, timely clinical decisions on treatment plans for patients with cancer.
Interview date TBC
Main duties of the job
To liaise and support the MDT Coordinators and Pathway Navigators in the management of the patient pathways.
To contact GP practices and patients to prompt action with regards to at home testing to allow clinical triage to take place in a timely manner. To liaise with various departments to obtain all information required to provide a clinical diagnosis, to prompt for timely diagnostic appointments and reporting.
Working for our organisation
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
- Safety
- Care
- Respect
- Communication
- Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To liaise and support the MDT Coordinators and Pathway Navigators in the management of the patient pathways.
To ensure that all deadlines are met to ensure patient pathways are not compromised.
To liaise with various departments to obtain all information required to provide a clinical diagnosis, to prompt for timely diagnostic appointments and reporting.
To contact GP practices and patients to prompt action with regards to at home testing to allow clinical triage to take place in a timely manner.
To use the Trusts Cancer Registry system and Microsoft Office tools i.e. Excel spread sheets to add and manage relevant date pertaining to waiting times, audit and data.
To produce and distribute daily reports that assist in the management of patient pathways.
To ensure that all case notes are located, retrieved, tracked and made available for the MDT meetings and data validation.
To ensure that all data in regards to the National Cancer Waiting Time (CWT) targets, Cancer Outcomes Services Dataset (COSD) and National Cancer Audits (NCA) is correct by validating information found on the Somerset Cancer Register (SCR), the Patient Administration System, CRIS, Unisoft and patient case notes. To input patient level data, support and liaise with clinical staff of all levels to ensure that data is complete and accurate for all National Cancer Audits. To assist the Cancer Services Management team in the annual national and local Cancer Peer Review process that the Trust must adhere to.
To carry out any other reasonable duties as assigned by the Cancer Management team.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- • GCSE - O Level Grade A-D or equivalent in Maths and English
- • ECDL or equivalent demonstrable skills
- • Experience of working as part of a team and in isolation.
- • Positive attitude towards change and its implementation
- • Experience of data inputting and quality assurance of data.
- • Experience in customer/ patient services.
- • Competent in the use of Microsoft Office software
- • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues, clinicians and managers both internal and external to the Trust
- • Ability to work on own initiative and as an effective and responsible team member.
- • Understanding of the National and Local Cancer Targets.
- • Ability to demonstrate flexibility in working hours including out of office core working hours
- • Maintain confidentiality at all times
- • Awareness of Health and Safety in the workplace
- • Awareness of equal opportunity issues
Desirable
Desirable criteria
- • RSA typing or equivalent or demonstrable keyboard skills
- • Working within a multidisciplinary team
- • Relevant experience of working within an acute healthcare setting
- • Experience in using a database
- • Demonstrate ability to use a NHS Patient Administration System
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- William Wright
- Job title
- Cancer Services Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 922 4975
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