Lead Rapid Diagnostic Service Coordinator inHarrogate inHarrogate PUBLISHED
TUE 15 OCT 2024
The ideal candidate will be responsible for meeting local and national cancer performance targets, ensuring a streamlined process for diagnosing cancer within 28 days. They will play a crucial role in enhancing patient care quality and experience while adapting to evolving diagnostic pathways over time. The position demands strong initiative and the ability to comply with performance and quality standards.
**Applicants who have applied for this role in the last 6 months need not reapply**
The post holder will be responsible for providing a high quality service for those referred with a suspected cancer diagnosis to HDFT, liaising with primary care and the tumour sites that fall within the remit of the RDS at HDFT and with wider colleagues in the trust to assist in delivering the local and national cancer 28 day performance target.
The post-holder will work both directly and indirectly with patients and their carers to assist in coordinating the care of patients through their hospital care journey, providing the patient with the relevant information and coordinate any test preparations that need to be sent or collected by the patient. The post will require the coordination of appropriate services to maximise the delivery of streamlined diagnostic pathways, thereby improving quality of care and experience for patients and their carers and diagnosing cancer earlier.
The post-holder will support with coordinating the MDT meetings for the non-specific symptoms service, tracking the patient pathways, and provide comprehensive secretarial support to the service ensuring potential breaches of cancer waiting times are avoided or escalated to the RDS Lead.
The post holder will be responsible for the day to day line management of the RDS coordinator
The purpose of this role is to support the clinical team for patients referred with a suspected cancer including non-specific symptoms to achieve definitive diagnosis by day 28 and provide comprehensive secretarial support to the service. This role has been specially designed to support the optimal timed pathways and will require the post holder to evolve to support the pathway as it continues to refine over time. You will be responsible for the day to day line management of the RDS admin officer.It is expected that the post holder can work autonomously, using their own initiative and within a specialised team. The post holder is expected to be highly experienced within the hospital setting with knowledge and evidence of specialised terminology, educated to a level required to perform the role or equivalent experience. The post-holder will actively support and contribute to the requirements of the service and ensure compliance with performance targets and quality standards required at a local and national level.
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