Job Description:

Job information Cancer Care Coordinator from the Company The Maltings Surgery, this latest Cancer Care Coordinator job vacancy is located in the city St Albans AL located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Cancer field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Part of the role will be safety netting and checking that patients referred with a suspected diagnosis of cancer have received an appointment with secondary care in an appropriate timeframe. Supporting practices to achieve Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) indicators for cancer. (Maintain a register of cancer patients, ensuring that Cancer Care Reviews have been undertaken with all patients within 12 months of diagnosis and ensure a three month supportive conversation). Support individual practices to improve local uptake of National Cancer Screening Programmes, understanding practice data for uptake and how screening is carried out, through community of practice which supports peer to peer learning, and engagement with local providers. Improving referral processes for suspected cancers, with a focus on safety netting, ensuring that all patients receive information of their referral, including why they are being referred, the importance of attending appointments and where they can access further support. Where possible, ensure there is a single point of contact for patients in each practice during their cancer journey to answer questions and deal with problems that arise, linking in or signposting to services such as the hospital team, district nursing or Macmillan services, benefits agency as appropriate. Create a system of checks to ensure the patients on suspected cancer pathways are seen in time appropriate manner by secondary care. Closely liaise with the PCN lead for cancer, the practice clinical leads and cancer champion if in place. Co-ordinate quarterly meetings to monitor cancer performance indicators and QOF using public health data. Supporting practices to incorporate use of Ardens templates and standardised coding to maintain accurate registers. Act as point of contact for local hospice and liaising with hospice as required to ensure care planning in place. Support practice staff in the upkeep of palliative care registers. Support the practices in the PCN in conducting peer to peer learning events that look at data and trends in diagnosis across the PCN, including cases where patients presented repeatedly before referral and late diagnoses. Support the practices in the PCN to engage with local system partners, including Patient Participation Groups, secondary care and Public Health and Commissioning teams. Link in with and build relationships with the wider PCN team, Social Prescribers, Pharmacists, Health and Wellbeing Coach and other clinical/non-clinical partners involved in the patients care. Be a point of contact for people living beyond cancer, or bereaved relatives, who need support, signpost to support groups available locally or nationally as appropriate. Holistically bring together all of a persons identified care and support needs and explore options to help them achieve their needs. Working closely with secondary care Cancer Support Workers and Macmillan Community Link Workers to support integration of care across organisational boundaries. Responsibilities to Multi-Disciplinary Teams Communication and collaborative working relationships across multi-disciplinary teams. Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team. Can recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary. Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the PCN or group of PCNs. Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients GP, Nurses, other practice staff and other healthcare professionals including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from provider and commissioning organisations. Develop excellent working relationships with all partners, wider service networks including the voluntary sector, GP practices, adult social care, hospitals, community pharmacists and other members of the MDT. Manage and prioritise workload on a daily basis and deal with the competing demands of the MDT. Follow through with service users and others involved to ensure all services and care arrangements are in place. Responsibilities to Patients Working with colleagues within constituent practices to: Support patients to utilise decision aids in preparation for a shared decision-making conversation. Holistically bring together all of a persons identified care and support needs and explore options to meet these within a single PCSP, in line with PCSP best practice, based on what matters to the person. Help people to manage their needs through answering queries, making, and managing appointments, and ensuring that people have good quality written or verbal information to help them make choices about their care. Liaising with social prescribers and Macmillan Community Link Workers to support people to take up training and employment, and to access appropriate benefits where eligible. Support people to understand their level of knowledge, skills and confidence when engaging with their health and wellbeing. Work alongside secondary care to assist people to access self-management education courses, peer support or interventions that support them in their health and wellbeing. Keep the PCN aware of good news stories. Confidentiality The post holder must maintain the confidentiality and security of information about patients, staff and the business of the PCN and both partnerships in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and Caldicott principles. Health & safety The post-holder will support and implement on the full range of promotion and management of their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to): Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice / PCN guidelines. Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across the business. Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills and initiate and manage the training of others. Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed. Keeping own work areas generally clean, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other site facility managers Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually). Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Equality and diversity The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include: Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights. Personal/Professional development The post-holder will: Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources. Participate in any training/development implemented by the PCN as part of this employment, including: o Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development o Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skill and activities to others who are undertaking similar work o Training may need to be undertaken outside of normal practice hours, and off site.

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Closed Date : 2024-11-06