Specialist Palliative Care Administrative Assistant

The post holder will work closely with a small and supportive professional administrative team

• Be responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out in accordance with the correct procedures and policies.
• Support the Lead Palliative and End of Life Nurse and the specialist team in developing the service and maintaining all its standards in line with NICE measures.
• Support workloads within the speciality.
• Maintain up to date records as requested by individual team members with regard to patient information.
• Actively take part in team meetings; including agenda setting, minute taking, room booking and ensuring meetings are attended by relevant staff by organising dates well in advance and communicating to all appropriate staff.
• Prepare documentation ready for the specialist palliative MDT weekly and facilitate these meetings.
• Deal sensitively and effectively with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives and colleagues.
• Ensure that data collection complies with the Caldicott and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).

• Organising meetings including minute taking.
• MDT working support
• Letter writing.
• Data collection and reporting.
• Preparation of patient information & Registering patients .
• Support for audit

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Jane Carpenter

Job title:

Lead nurse - palliative and End of Life Care Email address:  Telephone number: