Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge? If yes, the Plastic Surgery Breast team would like to hear from you. We are looking for a motivated individual to join our busy team. The successful candidate will be motivated, able to priorities work loads, build good working relationships and book and plan patients being referred into the service within the agreed RTT timeframe. The successfulcandidate will navigate the patient pathway from the beginning of the referral. 

Main duties of the job

Ensuring that patients are on the correct 18-Wk pathway, validating this and amending as necessary. Manage and navigate the patient pathway from the beginning of the referral. This will include communications cross the wider team and other hospitals to co-ordinate a date for surgery and breast surgeon availability. Monitor and oversee the inpatient waiting lists ensuring they are up to date, cleansed and accurate whilst also maintaining contact with patients.

Ensuring that patients have had all relevant pre-admission tests/checks/X-Rays, recording patient admission, recording hospital/patient cancellations and DNAs (did not attend), and ongoing validation. Also, to record pre-operative clinic outcomes to agreed defined protocols and to deal with patients who wish to change or cancel their appointments or admission date.

Routinely reviewing active, suspended and planned patients in accordance with the Trust’s Patient Access Policy.

Have knowledge of referral process into the service, ensuring referrals are registered with an appropriate consultant with the next available theatre slot

Being responsible for 642 theatre process of DIEP theatre lists, ensuring lists are allocated to surgeons and reallocated where required to maximise use of lists

Cross cover for Breast Reconstruction Admin and Skin Cancer Navigator during periods of absence.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of  over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.