
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Job Summary
Become a Vital Link in the Fight Against Liver Cancer!
Join us in a dynamic role supporting the delivery of a crucial hepatocellular cancer surveillance pathway for our local community.
You’ll be the driving force behind ensuring patients with cirrhosis receive timely and essential monitoring at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
More than just a coordinator, you’ll be a patient advocate, directly supporting individuals to stay engaged with their surveillance, guaranteeing they receive life-saving scans on schedule.
Become a valued member of our Hepatology team, managing a delegated workload and playing a pivotal role in our high-quality Fibroscan service, a cutting-edge non-invasive tool for measuring liver health.
This full-time, cross-site position offers a rewarding opportunity to make a tangible difference in patient lives.
Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities of this role will be:
- To identify patients that should be on the Liver Surveillance Pathway (LSP) that are not currently listed, including those that have failed to attend and / or are lost to follow-up.
- To work with the hepatology service to ensure all patients that should be listed on the LSP registry are added appropriately.
- Ability to access local hospital patient administration systems and data to identify appropriate patients.
- To add newly identified patients to LSP as identified by the local service.
- To contact patients that are lost to follow-up or disengaged with LSP and support them back into the surveillance programme, send blood forms, remind patients of the importance of having the investigations ahead of hepatology appointment.
- Effectively deliver Fibroscans to a high standard and in accordance with local and national training protocols (training will be provided);
- Support the team in delivery of high standard, safe and efficient Fibroscan service.
- Work effectively with the hepatology multi-disciplinary team.
- To contribute to the quality assurance process departmentally and undertake audit and quality improvement as required.
- To assist with raising awareness of liver disease- health promotion.
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