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Job summary

Main area
Cancer Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 18 hours per week
Job ref
214-CEN-6240878
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/05/2024 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Audit Assistant in Cancer Services

NHS AfC: Band 3

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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Job overview

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Clinical Audit Assistant to join our Cancer Services team.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an established service that supports the Trust’s cancer teams. The data aids the clinical management of the patients and informs progress against the national cancer outcome and audit targets. This post is to support the services with high quality data collection, abstraction and presentation to support patient pathways and future service developments.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the Clinical Audit Assistant – Cancer is to collect and validate data from various sources efficiently and preparing reports paying close attention to detail ensuring best quality data returns at all times.

Applicants must possess a sound basic education to GCSE level or equivalent with evidence to demonstrate the following:

  • Ability to work within a team framework
  • Accurate data entry skills
  • Good organisational and administration skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information at all times
  • Knowledge of clinical audit
  • A desire to increase personal skills

Working for our organisation

Thank you for your interest in this role. 

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we 
also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Trust Values

Essential criteria
  • Put patients at the heart of all we do
  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “Dedicated to Outstanding Care” behavioural standards
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Entry level knowledge and understanding of a range of routine work procedures particularly those based on data/information collection and processing
  • Knowledge of data collection, spreadsheets/databases and clinical audit
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office software/windows-based applications
  • Patient records/case notes
  • Confidentiality
  • Multidisciplinary team working
  • Wide range of medical terminology and knowledge
  • Knowledge of clinical coding
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Infoflex database
  • Knowledge of Cancer Waiting Times
  • Knowledge of COSD
  • Knowledge of database design
  • Knowledge of simple statistics

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good general education standard
  • 4 GCSE qualifications including English Language and Maths (grade C or above) or equivalent
  • European Computer Driving Licence
Desirable criteria
  • Study beyond GCSE
  • Advanced ECDL

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Hospital computer systems e.g. Medway PAS, case note tracking, ORION
  • Wide range of medical terminology knowledge acquired through further training
Desirable criteria
  • Data analysis / elementary statistics

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Data entry
  • Ability to prioritise tasks, work to deadlines and manage own time effectively
  • Previous experience within a clinical environment/healthcare setting
  • Team work
  • Experience of working in the NHS
Desirable criteria
  • Presentation of data verbally and in written format
  • Extracting data from computerised databases and producing reports

Other requirements specific to the role (e.g. be able to drive or work shifts

Essential criteria
  • Willing to undertake additional training as required
  • Drive and enthusiasm, well-motivated with a positive approach to working as part of a team pursuing new strategic goals
  • Ability to work across the Trust
Desirable criteria
  • Committed to continuing professional development

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sue Deller
Job title
Cancer Pathway and MDT Co-ordinator Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623622515
Additional information

Alternatively contact 

Sue Deller, Cancer Pathway and MDT Lead, 01623 622515 EXT 6303

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