Respiratory - Asthma MDT Co-ordinator | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8YE |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6226258/287-RMED-149-24 |
Summary
Asthma MDT Co-ordinator - Respiratory
Band 4
Permanent
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team within the Respiratory Medicine department based on the Royal site of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This post is supporting the Asthma service and the individual would need to be highly organised to book, monitor and track asthma patient appointments across the Royal and Broadgreen sites. The successful candidate would also be responsible for ensuring the up to date data of the NACP database, support and plan nurse led clinics, support the MDT meeting and take away actions and implement.
It is expected that all applicants have previous experience working in an NHS environment along with a good understanding and knowledge of medical terminology and audio skills.
The successful candidate must be able to undertake all administrative duties, be well organised, able to plan their workload, work on their own initiative and work to strict deadlines both individually and as part of a team.
To provide a comprehensive service to the Asthma Consultants and speciality asthma nurse teams, with the minimum of supervision. Organise your own workload and co-ordinate activities with other medical secretaries to ensure that an efficient service is provided.
It is essential that you show initiative commensurate with the role and it is vital that confidentiality should be maintained at all times. Ensure cross cover working where possible.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
In its most recent inspection, the Care Quality Commission gave the Trust an overall rating of Good
1. To provide a comprehensive service to consultants and speciality teams including nurse practitioners/clinicians.
2. Keep diary up to date, arrange appointments, and arrange travel and accommodation.
3. Operate an effective bring forward system and filing system.
4. To manage and maintain 18 week pathways including tertiary referrals to external trusts, and ensure these are accurately recorded on PAS system. Keep track of referrals to ensure patient is reviewed promptly. Check that follow up appointments are arranged in conjunction with Referral to Treat (RTT) patient pathway.
5. Support consultants in non clinical activities role by preparing presentation documents using relevant packages and arranging meetings, set agenda, circulate agenda/supporting papers as appropriate, and take minutes at meetings.
6. Ensure appropriate personnel are informed of consultant annual leave/study leave. Keep consultants informed of junior doctor leave, as it could have an effect on the service.
7. Organise and maintain consultant’s admissions. Cancel and add patients to the waiting list, as appropriate, ensuring lists are updated, and patients contacted. Liaise with waiting list office, anaesthetic department and ward. Complete and amend theatre lists appropriately.
8. Type dictation from audio transcription of clinical correspondence and documentation. Type discharge summaries as appropriate. Maintain an effective track on inpatient referrals to ensure patient is reviewed promptly.
9. Check against clinical letters to ensure appropriate follow up arrangements/investigations are in place. Rectify if not.
11. Ensure sickness absence and annual leave of clinical staff is reported.
12. Work from initiative using own judgement, acquired knowledge and tact to deal with queries and resolve situations or refer to appropriate person.
13. Organise and order stationery as appropriate.
14. Deal with enquiries either on the telephone of face to face from patients, consultants, junior doctors and colleagues in an appropriate manner.
15. Ensure all correspondence relating to patient care is acted upon in a timely manner.
16. Accurate check of patient demographics using the Patient Administration System (PAS), including registration screen, checking patients details are correct, and tracking of case-notes.
17. Assist with audit/research data collection as required.
18. Obtain information as requested by line manager
19. Be able to work as part of a team, promote effective flows in the department to cover leave to ensure office runs smoothly.
20. Train new and junior members of the team within own work area as required by line manager.
21. Attend appropriate training and education sessions at the request of manager.
22. General office duties, including incoming and outgoing mail, e-mail, fax, photocopying. Participate in housekeeping of office environment.
23. Work with managers to review working practices, ways of working and find solutions to problems.
24. Implement policies and procedures for own area.
25. Record and input data onto databases and systems as appropriate
* Any other duties required by line manager
This advert closes on Thursday 30 May 2024