Chemotherapy Scheduler

Job overview

Chemotherapy Scheduler

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Cancer Services

Band: 4

Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Chemotherapy Scheduler who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder is responsible for the collection of accurate and timely data regarding patients requiring oncology/haematology treatment.

The post-holder is also to be involved in facilitating service improvement to streamline the patient journey and ensure that the trust delivers a quality service and gold standard patient care.

The role will involve working with a range of staff across the entire organisation, but particularly in the Directorate of Oncology, Adult Medicine, Haematology and Pain Medicine.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In conjunction with the administration teams ensure that all patients for the specialty are added to the relevant waiting list working within the specified timescales and guidelines.

Coordinate and manage proactively the administrative pathway of all patients on the speciality waiting lists, including the diagnostic and planned care lists to ensure the appropriate waiting time targets are met for these patients.  This will require liaison with the clinicians, wards, day unit team, the Admin & Clerical teams, diagnostic departments, Outpatients etc.

To be responsible for sending admission / pre-treatment appointment letters and telephoning patients as required.

To liaise with consultants and their teams to monitor and ensure correct case mix on Day Centre lists, making appropriate staff aware of any changes, including Medical staff using the agreed protocols / on KOMs Nursing

To ensure patient cancellations are allocated new TCI dates within the specified time limits on KOMs

Monitor waiting times, proactively identifying risks, and taking corrective actions to ensure relevant targets are not breached, in conjunction with the Service teams, and clinical teams.

Deal with non-clinical queries from patients, their carers, general practitioners and members of the admin & clerical team.

Schedule patients into the management system for a course of Chemotherapy treatment and other related appointments, taking account of other treatment modalities that may impinge on the treatment appointment timescale. This will require multiple appointments booked into a complex patient pathway taking into account the various treatment options and routes that patients may require, to achieve the desired outcome, and any other specific clinics relating to a particular diagnosis

Ensure that the chemotherapy units are booked within agreed booking criteria within centre policy.