23 Oct
St Thomas' Hospital
London
Main area
Cardiovascular
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
18 months (Fixed term for 18 months with a view to extension if further funding is granted.)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon to Fri (08:00am - 16:00pm) (0900am - 1700pm))
Job ref
196-A&C592;
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£31,944 - £34,937 inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/10/2024 09:00
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic,
respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success.
We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Inherited Cardiac Conditions team as a Band 4 Patient Pathway Coordinator working within the Cardiology Service in the Cardiovascular Directorate.
This is a fixed term position for 18 months, with a view to extension if further funding is secured.
It will be based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ but will also require some working for Kings College Hospital, although this can be done remotely.
The role will be pivotal on supporting the regional roll out of the sudden cardiac death programme and developing the introduction of the Phenotips system within the ICC Service. This is a new initiative and the successful candidate will be working closely with a range of clinical and managerial staff.
Main duties of the job
The Patient Pathway Coordinator will report directly to the Assistant Service Manager for Cardiology. They will be expected to work autonomously but under direction. The role is key to delivering an effective service to families bereaved through sudden cardiac death (SCD) and survivors of cardiac arrest (SCA).
The postholder will need to liaise closely with both the ICC staff and the clinical genetics team to ensure seamless care and support for these individuals and their families.
This role provides efficient and high quality secretarial and administrative support to ICC consultants and nurses, clinical geneticists, genetic counsellors and their teams, working in close co-operation with staff and other health professionals. The post-holder will be pivotal in the implementation of the Phenotips system for recording patient’s family history.
The post holder will also be responsible for the timely cancellation of clinics and where required co-ordinating the arrangements for replacement and adhoc clinics.
The post holder will also be involved coordination of the Cardiovascular genetics multi-disciplinary meetings through close working with the Clinical Genetics department and Cardiac Genetics team
They will support the regional roll out of the sudden cardiac death programme including organising and minuting quarterly meetings of the regional team.
The post holder will ensure that patient care and access is in carried out in accordance with the access policy.
Working for our organisation
Our cardiology department provides a full range of services for inpatients and outpatients. We pride ourselves on the quality of these services, and we are recognised as a world leader in the development and application of innovative treatments for heart conditions.
The services we offer are delivered by expert cardiologists using state of the art facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the role, please look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name Becky Bevan Job title Service Manager Email address ***********@gstt.nhs.uk