Supportive Care Coordinator inUrmston inUrmston PUBLISHED 20 AUG 2024

Due to our present Band 6 moving on we have a vacant full-time position within the Supportive care side of the Macmillan Centre team, Would suit a Registered nurse or Allied Health profession with cancer care/palliative care experience.

• To be responsible for the person-centred assessment, planning, implementation and referral pathway and ongoing review and evaluation of the needs of patients with life threatening conditions and their carers, throughout their Centre journey.
• To organise and facilitate group work for the benefit of this target group of patients and carers.
  
  

To work with the Centre Manager to provide an accessible and integrated cancer information service

• 1.1 To maintain accurate and up-to-date records on all clients to ensure documentation meets agreed standards.
• 1.2 To undertake holistic assessment and together with clients plan a programme of interventions according to their identified need, whilst utilising your clinical skills and knowledge of supportive and palliative treatments.
• 1.3 To have a knowledge and understanding of ancillary services for referring and signposting according to need.
• 1.4 To ensure that each individual care package is evaluated and reviewed in conjunction with the client and in line with the policies and procedures within the service.
• 1.6 To develop, organise and facilitate therapeutic groups/sessions to support clients in response to client recognised needs.
• 1.7 To take appropriate action to deal with emergency situations and significant events.
• 1.8 To communicate relevant information to clients.
• 1.9 To develop and update clinical policies and procedures.
• 1.10 To assist the Centre Manager in providing an accessible and integrated cancer information service.
  
  

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kate Eyres Job title: Centre Manager Email address: Telephone number:

Visits to the centre pre interview encouraged.