Radiotherapy Patient Pathway Co-ordinator

Job description

Job responsibilities

• The main role of the PPC is to ensure radiotherapy patients pathways have the shortest waiting times possible from referral to treatment. This includes providing administrative support for the Radiotherapy Management team, Operational Manager and Consultants by producing and circulating lists of cancer patients to be discussed at the weekly Patient Time Line (PTL) meeting. To be responsible that the patient details on the list are correct. This will involve communication with admin staff, registrars and consultants. The number of patients on the list can vary from tumour site to tumour site, but there could be up to 100 patients for discussion.

• There is no standard pathway of patients for each tumour site for radiotherapy treatment and the PPC must plan and manage this process.

• To ensure any emergency and palliative patients are appropriately discussed, referred and added to treatment lists. The PPC must be able to work under differing timescales and manage their own time to ensure the information is available.

• To attend the PTL and Bookings meetings and be part of the team and communicate complex information including patient history and diagnosis.

• To record the treatment decisions, and pathway changes within the PTL meeting and communicate complex information to the wider MDT to ensure full awareness of pathway optimisation for radiotherapy patients. The post holder must complete the notes of changes extremely quickly and with great accuracy.

• To follow up with all departments the treatment decision, for example arranging pre-treatment, treatment, planning, rescans and mouldroom appointments.To also ensure patient information, such as radiology and patient notes are transferred to the next stage of the patient pathway. The post holder will need to become aware of a number of different hospital procedures, such as how outpatients are booked, referrals to other hospitals are made etc., so the patient moves through the pathway as quickly as possible.

• The PPC will need to monitor patients though their pathway, so the patients can be brought back to the PTL to discuss various complex issues.

• The PPC will need to liaise with a number of departments i.e. oncology, radiology and pathology to ensure patient appointments are made as soon as possible and the results are reported quickly.

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or Experience

Desirable

• Data entry

Experience

Desirable

• Experience in working with Elekta machines

Experience

Desirable

• Experience of working in the NHS

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Essential

• Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).

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

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Address

Royal Sussex County Hospital

Eastern Road

Brighton

BN2 5BE

Employer's website

https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)