We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic endoscopy service as a cancer pathway manager. You will work closely alongside the clinical endoscopists and clinical nurse specialists on the lower GI nurse led pathway. Receiving referrals from primary care and recording information on the patient journey from the point of referral to diagnostic testing and post procedure care. You will be responsible for tracking the patient throughout their journey post procedure to the point of treatment, other speciality or discharge.
This is a challenging and rewarding role and offers a fantastic opportunity for you to join an excellent team that prioritises high quality patient centred care.
Overview
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
* Communicate with other specialities, confirming procedures are requested and booked.
* Direct communication with patients as advised by the clinical team.
* Communicate information on the patients progress in the high-risk meetings and managers team meetings.
* Develop positive working relationships with all members of the team, liaising with medical and administrative colleagues and AQP provider services.
* Support the clinical and business teams in delivering timely care and services to meet health care needs and service delivery targets.
* Work closely with other specialities, managers, administration and Independent Sectors to deliver a coordinated, consistent management of patient suspected/cancer pathways.
* Monitor the patients on the database and check daily to ensure that escalation points are adhered to.
* Utilise reports in the PPM Database to monitor patients and identify delays for action.
* Ensure patients are booked into next appointments in line with national standards & Trust policies, communicating with key personnel to action upgrade to fast-track where required.
* Highlight to Assistant Business Managers for escalation, those patients whose progress is likely to fall outside the agreed timescales.
* Liaise with other specialities and trusts to ensure that the diagnostic and treatments are sought in a timely fashion.
* Ensuring the Large Polyps are tracked excel and highlighted for discussion at MDT meetings, when result s are available.
* Ensuring MDT members know which patients are listed for MDT for discussion.
* Ensuring that diagnostic test results, pathology and audio/visual equipment etc. are available for each patient.
* Commitment to providing high quality evidence-based care to patients and their carers.
* Commitment to the clinical area valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and creative working environment.
* Commitment to own development and the unit.
About us
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
THE LEEDS WAY VALUES
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: Accountable, Empowered.
All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values. Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post: Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will:
* Develop and maintain a database to actively manage and record patient level detail.
* Attend Cancer High Risk Meeting.
* Prepare and attend the Multidisciplinary Team Meeting.
* Collect and record data on behalf of AMS, which can be manipulated to allow the extraction of data for audit.
* Using data gathered, identify, develop and implement, through collaborative working with Endoscopy, Colorectal, Upper GI and Gastro Teams improvements to the patient pathway and the Service.
* Collect and record patient information from Trust data recording systems on PPM and PAS.
* Work closely with other specialities, managers, administration and Independent Sectors to deliver a coordinated, consistent management of patient suspected/cancer pathways.
* Ensure patients are booked into next appointments in line with national standards & Trust policies, communicating with key personnel to action upgrade to fast-track where required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GCSE or equivalent
Skills & behaviours
* Good verbal and written communication
* Knowledge of IT systems including PAS, ICE and PPM
Additional Requirements
* Ability to use Trust IT systems, PPM, ICE, PAS, Experience of data collection and analysis.
Experience
* 12 months experience at band 3
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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