IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) Specialty Coordinator

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic and organised individual to join our Gastro Specialist Nurse Team with a pure focus on supporting the IBD Specialist Nurses who form an integral part of the wider Gastroenterology clinical team (Gastroenterologists) to ensure high quality care is provided across our service. You will be a key member of the IBD Team acting as facilitator to enable the critical involvement with patients, by the CNSs, dealing directly with non-clinical enquiries (via a patient helpline or via My Medical Records (MyMR) electronic platform).

Main duties of the job

Within this role as the Specialty Coordinator you will provide administrative and secretarial support to the process bookings, referrals, collate reports, audits etc and develop with the service.A key part of the job role will also involve maintaining a Biologics database to ensure a smooth-management of new starters on drugs, as well as repeat prescriptions in order for the CNSs or Consultant to prescribe. You will also manage the co-ordination of the IBD MDT which requires legal logging of the clinical outcomes, this task is particularly supported by the Lead IBD Consultant/CNS where appropriate, along with the booking of appointments & undertaking a range of administrative tasks generated by the IBD service.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.