Imaging Cancer Co-Ordinator

This is an exciting time to be joining LUHFT. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out important ambitions for cancer including the overarching commitment to ensure that by 2028:

• 55,000 more people will survive 5 years or more each year following diagnosis


• Three in four (75%) cancers will be diagnosed at an earlier stage.


LUHFT FDSs will upgrade and bring together the latest diagnostic equipment and expertise, building on models that have been piloted within CRUK and Macmillan Cancer Support. The national vision for FDSs means that, in time, such services will be able to offer:

• A single point of access to a diagnostic pathway for all patients' symptoms that could indicate cancer.


• A personalised, accurate and rapid diagnosis of patients' symptoms by integrating existing diagnostic provision and utilising networked clinical expertise and information locally.


This LUHFT vision will support earlier and faster diagnosis through more efficient diagnostic pathways and an improved personalised diagnostic experience, whilst reducing unwarranted variation and improving opportunities for staff development and innovative working., This post is a key member of Liverpool University Hospital Trust's (LUHFT) Cancer Services Delivery Project which has been set up to support LUHFT in establishing and delivering Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS) pathways in several tumour sites across the Trust.

As the Imaging Cancer Co-Ordinator, you will work within the LUHFT Imaging Service and very closely with Trust Cancer Services team and Operational Teams to deliver Trust-level access to Imaging services to ensure FDS compliance across the Trusts Cancer Tumour Sites.

The post holder will manage the day-to-day scheduling of Imaging Appointment for patients on a Cancer Pathway. Will monitor systems that are in place to track progress of patients against agreed internal turnaround times and access standards, making sure the Diagnostic Access and Performance Manager and Cancer. Management Teams are made aware of anything not on target to be achieved. They will work with the Operational and Clinical teams to make sure this cohort of patients have timely access to Imaging to support delivery of and to maintain sustainable cancer pathways., Ensure patient is seen with the appropriate timescale for all diagnostic imaging to meet national standards by liaising with Radiologists, Radiographers, Nurses, and Administration staff regarding the patients' pathway and highlighting any breaches to the Diagnostic Access and Performance Manager.

Develop knowledge and experience of relevant cancer tumour sites and understanding of patients' pathway.

Be able to collate, process and develop routine data on a weekly basis to produce timely and accurate information on cancer waiting times for all imaging for the performance meeting and the Trust.

Continually develop skills in the use of various hospital information systems and ensure training is updated.

Develop, create, and generate standard reports and spreadsheets to demonstrate turn around reporting times and liaise with the Clerical Manager regarding additional reporting sessions.

Key Tasks

• To support the Trust in line with the 28 day faster diagnostic cancer turnaround times.


• Provide all patients with rapid access appointments for all diagnostic Imaging.


• Track patients through their pathway who require diagnostic tests from request to verification for all Imaging in Radiology.


• Ensure all tracking is kept up to date with imaging outcomes daily.


• Work closely with the Radiology appointment centre, senior leads, and line manager to generate and maintain appointment schedules for patients on a cancer pathway, ensuring full utilisation of all available appointments.


• Liaise with MDT Co-ordinator for all tumour sites in the Trust regarding cancer pathways and imaging waiting times, attend PTL meetings when required., The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.


The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.


• GCSE (or equivalent) English, Mathematics Grade C or above


• NVQ3 or equivalent


• Word processing/Excel skills, Demonstrable experience of working with healthcare professionals/previous experience in the NHS


• Knowledge of issues of working with confidential information and understanding the need for confidentiality


• Demonstrable Supervisory Experience in a Clerical Setting


• Experience of inputting accurate and timely data into computer systems


Desirable criteria


• Experience of audit and data collection, Knowledge of Health Records systems


• Ability to use database and emails


• Excellent computer skills


• Ability to communicate with all levels of clinical staff across the range of specialities


• Ability to prioritise workload to respond to changing demands


• Flexible approach to work


Desirable criteria


• Knowledge of patient pathways, Excellent verbal and written communication manner


• Good time management/organisation skills


• Ability to prioritise workload to deadlines


• Ability to work as a member of the team and on own initiative


• Enthusiastic and highly motivated
  
  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., The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.