Asthma MDT Co-coordinator/ Administrator inBrighton inBrighton PUBLISHED 20 SEP 2024

This role will support a Tier 3 severe Asthma spoke in Brighton. The post holder will be a vital member of the team who will ensure coordination of care for patients with severe asthma to ensure they get life changing treatment quickly. You will ensure that once patients in primary care are identified; there is seamless coordination of all steps in their pathway with excellent communication between all stakeholders.

This is a 9 month fixed term / secondment post.

The key responsibility of this role is to provide administrative facilitation for the severe asthma team at UHSussex (East) including administration of asthma MDT meetings, ensuring internal and external colleagues are able to join the meetings via electronic conferencing. This will include preparing, organising and circulating agendas, minutes, results and sending out minutes of the meeting to relevant clinicians. The role will also be responsible for collecting, maintaining and submitting the data required for the asthma MDT and monitoring the dataset as well as National Respiratory Audit Programme NRAP. It is required that the post holder will provide administration support to the clinical team and will be a pivotal point of contact and support to the asthma nurses. This will include providing clinic co-ordination (from referrals to respiratory same day unit assessments) managing outcomes and future appointments.

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.

We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jenny Beaumont Job title: Asthma Nurse specialist Email address: Telephone number:

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