Personalised Care Support Worker - Colorectal Cancer Team
We have an opportunity for an experienced administrator who has excellent communication and IT skills to work with our Colorectal Cancer teams to implement Personalised care pathways for patients with Colorectal cancer.
The cancer support worker for Personalised Care Follow Up (PCFU) will form an integral part of the Colorectal multidisciplinary team, alongside the CNS team caring for the physical, social and psychological needs of the patients who have completed their treatment for cancer. The support worker will assist the MDT in coordinating all appointments, signposting patients as necessary to the relevant team member to support the patient through the self-managed part of their pathway.
This is part of a project. We will be looking to make this post substantive if successful in June 2025.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
1. Act as point of contact for queries relating to scheduling of patient appointments and coordination of patient follow-up pathways. The patients may be challenging at times due to the anxiety of their cancer follow-up.
2. Respond to patient and other healthcare professionals' communication acting as a triage for patients and ensuring they are signposted to the appropriate member of the team.
3. Manage the database for all patients on the PCFU, liaising with the MDT coordinator to ensure patients are reviewed as necessary at the weekly MDT.
4. Be aware of the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of the patient. Able to observe, listen, and report any changes to the patient's condition to a member of the MDT so necessary guidance can be given.
5. Identify to the clinical team patients who require a Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA) and ensure one is completed prior to any appointments should they be needed.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide, and our 6,000 dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns, and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Other requirements
* Able to meet travel requirements of the post.
* Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development, and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff.
* Role model our Trust values every day.
* Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty - political and Trust.
Qualifications/Training
* Good General Education.
* NVQ level 4 in health or social care or equivalent experience.
* Evidence of further study, courses related to healthcare or cancer care.
* Teaching qualification.
Previous Experience
* Dealing with challenging situations.
* Experience in administration.
* Experience of using Hospital IT systems.
* Experience of formal/informal teaching.
* Experience of initiating change.
* Experience of Clinical Governance.
* NHS Experience.
* Working as part of an NHS Multidisciplinary Team.
Skills
* Able to work independently and recognizes when to seek help.
* Good communication and interpersonal skills.
* Experience of working as an effective team member.
* Ability to work in flexible and changing environments.
* Good verbal and written communication skills.
* Knowledge of Hospital IT software; EPR, Infoflex, PACS.
* Workshop management and organisation.
* Advanced IT skills using Microsoft Office.
* Teaching.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the Living with and Beyond Cancer programme.
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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