Oncology Specialist & SACT Pathway Coordinator, Band 3

We are recruiting an additional Full Time Specialist & SACT Pathway Coordinator (37.5hrs) to join our extremely busy Oncology Booking service based at Cheltenham General Hospital.
You will play a vital role in the booking and coordination of all new and routine appointments as well as complex chemotherapy and treatment appointments, ensuring the delivery of a smooth and efficient administration service to our patients.
This important role supports the Outpatient Services in Oncology for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Our clinics are held across across Gloucestershire and surrounding areas., To ensure and implement an efficient booking service for patients and clinicians ensuring waiting time targets and clinical targets are met and all Clinic and treatment chair capacity is efficiently used at all sites.
Monitoring progress of referrals, identifying problems and taking appropriate actions to ensure efficient management of referrals
To action clinic re-scheduling ensuring that clinical priorities are maintained and liaising directly with consultants and nursing team where capacity problems exist.
To manage the block booking appointments to ensure clinical priorities are maintained.
Making judgements and decisions on flexing template capacity to achieve a balance between clinical priorities and waiting time targets
To ensure that patients receive a supportive and responsive service tailored to their specific needs particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
To ensure accurate and timely data collection. Advising the management and nursing team where over or under capacity issues exist and to suggest ways of addressing these.
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Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.

You must be a hardworking, pro-active, motivated, resilient and patient focused individual who enjoys working in a challenging and busy environment.
You should be extremely well organised with excellent communication and time management skills.
You will be expected to use your own judgement to resolve issues and have a tactful and sensitive approach to dealing with occasionally difficult situations.
You should also be able to work well under pressure, closely following booking rules and guidelines and be able to prioritise your own workload under constantly changing demands.
The ideal candidate will have previous experience of Trakcare and be confident in the use of other IT software systems.

NHS AfC: Band 3
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.

Holiday entitlement of 27 days per year, plus eight Bank Holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service
Annual personal development reviews to support your career aspirations
Occupational health services and support
Automatic membership of the NHS Pension Scheme