Cancer Quality Assurance Coordinator

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Job summary

The Cancer Services department have an exciting opportunity to join the team in this brand new role as a Cancer Quality Assurance Coordinator.

Under the direction of the Cancer Data & Performance Manager and Directorate Manager, the Cancer Quality Assurance Coordinator will be responsible for the cancer breach analysis process, ensuring there is a mechanism for the analysis and learning from breaches and near misses of the cancer waiting times treatment standards (both 62 and 31 day). This will involve the production of pathway timelines - mapping out a patients journey from clock start to clock stop, validating dates entered into the trusts cancer database, and categorising delays in line with trust policy.

The Cancer Quality Assurance Coordinator will ensure that analysis and learning from breaches and near misses is shared with the responsible directorates and where necessary is logged on an action plan for monitoring.

The post holder will, in collaboration with the Directorate and Clinical Leads, support the management of the trusts Cancer Action Plan to support improvement in cancer pathways and the trusts performance against cancer waiting times standards.

This post is fixed term for a period of 12 months and the post holder will be expected to quickly embed themselves into the team and make an immediate impact, therefore a good working knowledge of National Cancer Waiting Times Guidance and trust systems is essential.

Main duties of the job

Ensure the creation of breach analysis timelines for all breaches and near misses of the cancer waiting time treatment standard.

Validate data entered into SCR.

Work alongside the Cancer Data & Performance Manager to ensure that submission data is validated in time for the National CWT submission.

Submit incidents for any 62 day breaches that surpass 104 days or 31 day breaches that surpass 73 days.

Set up and attend Breach Analysis and Clinical Harm Review Meetings, ensuring breach reasons are identified and appropriate actions for improvement are assigned.

Identify actions/ areas for improvement/ lessons learnt.

Document actions/ areas for improvement/ lessons learnt in the trusts Cancer Action Plan and share with service improvement facilitators.

Maintain cancer action/ improvement plan.

Liaise with Multi-Disciplinary teams both within, and external to the trust to understand what led to patient pathways breaching.

Produce breach reason and 104 harm review reports on a monthly and quarterly basis and report these into the cancer triad.

Work with the Cancer Data and MDT Supervisors to identify gaps in CWT knowledge that have led to potential breaches and support with ongoing training and development of the teams.

Provide leadership and mentoring support to the Cancer Services team to promote a culture of continuous improvement and delivery of agreed objectives.

About us

Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.

Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.

Date posted

18 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

435-S163-24

Job locations

Across East Lancashire Sites

Haslingden Road

Blackburn

BB2 3HH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details regarding the main responsibilities of the job.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details regarding the main responsibilities of the job.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

GCSE grade C/ 4 or above, or equivalent in both Maths and English
Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience

Experience

Essential

Advanced IT and keyboard skills.
In depth knowledge of trust systems and processes.
In depth knowledge of Cerner Millenium.
Experience validating large datasets.
Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team within the NHS.

Desirable

Experience with improvement methodology.
Experience in delivering training programmes.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

In depth knowledge of national cancer waiting times guidance.
Knowledge of best practice timed pathways for cancer.
Knowledge of medical terminology.
Communicating complex information both verbally and within written reports.
Attention to detail.

Desirable

Project management skills
Mentoring and leadership skills.

Personal Attributes

Essential

Excellent communication skills with a wide range of Multi-Disciplinary staff, both written and verbal.
Ability to work independently and as part of team.
Ability to make decisions independently.
Able to prioritise workload and work to deadlines.
Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
Ability to work across sites.
Ability to keep information confidential.
Ethos of continuous quality and service improvement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

GCSE grade C/ 4 or above, or equivalent in both Maths and English
Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience

Experience

Essential

Advanced IT and keyboard skills.
In depth knowledge of trust systems and processes.
In depth knowledge of Cerner Millenium.
Experience validating large datasets.
Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team within the NHS.

Desirable

Experience with improvement methodology.
Experience in delivering training programmes.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

In depth knowledge of national cancer waiting times guidance.
Knowledge of best practice timed pathways for cancer.
Knowledge of medical terminology.
Communicating complex information both verbally and within written reports.
Attention to detail.

Desirable

Project management skills
Mentoring and leadership skills.

Personal Attributes

Essential

Excellent communication skills with a wide range of Multi-Disciplinary staff, both written and verbal.
Ability to work independently and as part of team.
Ability to make decisions independently.
Able to prioritise workload and work to deadlines.
Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
Ability to work across sites.
Ability to keep information confidential.
Ethos of continuous quality and service improvement.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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