Care Co-ordinator - Cancer & End of Life

Job description

Job responsibilities

Primary responsibilities

There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks.

a) Ensure that all patients are signposted to, or receive information on their referral including why they are being referred, the importance of attending appointments and where they can access further support

b) Be available to patients with cancer, or their relatives, to ask 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.

c) Review patients and follow up each patient for a period after three months of a cancer diagnosis, covering topics such as benefits, support groups, offering support to relatives

d) Arrange a Cancer Care Review six months after the initial diagnosis with a Practice Nurse

e) Be a point of contact for survivors of cancer, or bereaved relatives, who need support, signpost to support groups available locally or nationally as appropriate.

f) Support the Practice in your PCN to improving local uptake of National Cancer Screening Programmes, understand the practices data for uptake on screening and understand how the practices can carry out the screening

g) Support the Practices in your 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

h) Support with the education for practice teams and patients and co-ordinate screening promotion events with the Practices across the PCN

i) Link in with and build relationships with the wider PCN Team, Social Prescribers, Pharmacist, Health and Wellbeing Coaches and other clinical/non-clinical partners involved in patients care

j) Holistically bring together all of a persons identified care and support needs, and explore options to help them achieve their needs

k) 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

l) Overall responsibility for arranging MDT/GSF Meetings, arranging the meetings across the PCN, managing the meeting agenda items; ensuring that all new referrals are identified, and information circulated to team members in advance of the meeting

M) Take minutes of MDT/GSF meetings and disseminate; chase progress against actions identified in these meetings and ensure follow up where necessary

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSE Grade A to C in English and Maths

Desirable

• Qualified to NVQ Level 3 in Adult Care

Experience

Essential

• Experience of minute taking
• Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of working with patients new diagnosed with cancer
• Experience of working with patients on the end of life care pathway

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Park View Group Practice

Address

2 Longford Road West

Reddish

Stockport

Greater Manchester

SK5 6ET

Employer's website

https://www.parkviewgrouppractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)