Job summary
The Melanoma team at St Bartholomew's delivers comprehensive cancer care through a multidisciplinary team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team in a new role working across various aspects of the pathway. The successful postholder will be comfortable working with spreadsheets and data to ensure patients receive seamless and well-coordinated care as they move through a complex pathway; from referrers outside of Barts Health, through to first appointment, and various treatment pathways.
Treatment can be delivered cross-site and involve many admin and clinical teams. This postholder will need to be able to manage working closely with clinical teams and reporting into operational managers, and be comfortable building relationships with other admin teams to ensure patients are ready for their appointment and are not lost to follow up in between services.
Main duties of the job
This postholder should have some experience working in an NHS admin environment. Clinical experience is desirable. Please be aware this post is a part-time role (3 days a week or equivalent), and is funded for 18 months. Please seek approval from your manager before applying if you are seeking a secondment opportunity.
For more detail please get in contact with the recruiting managers, Associate General Manager Chris Broderick - chris.broderick@nhs.net or General Manager, Louise Smith - louise.smith142@nhs.net
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE, A level or equivalent standard of education (especially Maths and English
- ECDL or equivalent experience e.g. knowledge of a range of IT packages such as word, excel and outlook
- Level 2 Registered Nurse
- Undergraduate Degree
Experience
Essential
- Acts responsibly as a team member and seeks help if necessary
- Ability to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so
- Able to monitor quality of own work and others
- Able to work within set time frames working to priorities and deadlines
- Proactive with the ability to use own Initiative
- Ability to treat everyone with dignity and respect
Skills
Essential
- Ability to handle datasets in excel
- Ability to work on a large scale (tracking large cohorts of patients and remaining organised when working with reports) as well as review clinic and MDT outcomes using CRS (or have experience using a comparable or similar PAS).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including a good telephone manner
- Competence with a range of IT packages, e.g. Microsoft and CRS
- Ability to produce correspondence & reports to a high calibre
- Ability to communicate professionally at all levels and experience of dealing with patient anxiety in a reassuring manner
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE, A level or equivalent standard of education (especially Maths and English
- ECDL or equivalent experience e.g. knowledge of a range of IT packages such as word, excel and outlook
- Level 2 Registered Nurse
- Undergraduate Degree
Experience
Essential
- Acts responsibly as a team member and seeks help if necessary
- Ability to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so
- Able to monitor quality of own work and others
- Able to work within set time frames working to priorities and deadlines
- Proactive with the ability to use own Initiative
- Ability to treat everyone with dignity and respect
Skills
Essential
- Ability to handle datasets in excel
- Ability to work on a large scale (tracking large cohorts of patients and remaining organised when working with reports) as well as review clinic and MDT outcomes using CRS (or have experience using a comparable or similar PAS).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including a good telephone manner
- Competence with a range of IT packages, e.g. Microsoft and CRS
- Ability to produce correspondence & reports to a high calibre
- Ability to communicate professionally at all levels and experience of dealing with patient anxiety in a reassuring manner
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
