Rheumatology Advanced Therapies Navigator

Job summary

The Advance Therapies Navigator will form an integral part of the Rheumatology multidisciplinary team approach in caring for patients diagnosed with inflammatory rheumatological disease that require treatment with advance therapies.They will provide support to the Rheumatology Consultant/Nursing team regarding the initial supply and on-going maintenance for this cohort of Rheumatological patients.

The Advanced therapies Navigator will work in close unison with the clinical nurse specialists to ensure the coordination and management of patients at all points of their advanced therapies treatment and will act as a point of contact for patients.

They will support the Advanced therapies advanced line, dealing with patient queries, prescription queries and triaging to the CNS team as appropriate.

To ensure patients are having their blood monitored as required to enable authorisation of repeat prescriptions and liaise with patients regarding this as required.

The post holder will work independently within the remit of the role whilst following the

Main duties of the job

To work with Consultants and Nurse Specialists across Rheumatology and the Pharmacy team to provide administrative support to the high cost drugs processes.

To support pharmacy with the early transfer of patients to biosimilar medicines

To check timing and process follow-up appointments, including ensuring blood tests are up to date.

To monitor patients through the patient pathway to ensure that care is provided in an efficient and timely fashion and in accordance with treatment guidelines.

To ensure ongoing approval of funding of supply of medication.

To establish and maintain systems and processes to monitor and report on the delivery of this growing service.

To respond to telephone and face to face enquiries from patients/carers. To redirect and prioritise queries as appropriate, ensuring both efficiency andeffectiveness of service delivery.

To work with pharmacy to resolve any patient-specific queries or process issues.

To ensure repeat prescription requests are processed effectively.

To establish and maintain databases of patients receiving these drugs to enable effective on-going monitoring of patients as well as enabling both clinical and managerial audit.

To ensure correspondence with GPs and other medical professionals, both within and outside the Trust, is up to date.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk