Clinical Education Administrator - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for a dynamic individual with excellent communication, organisational, and secretarial skills to support the administration function of the Haematology/Transplant & TYA education team and transfusion team

This is an exciting opportunity for an administrator to join the established clinical educator and transfusion team.

The Haematology Oncology service at the Christie offers state of the art treatments delivered by leading clinicians to patients with blood cancers and the Teenage and Young Adults across the Manchester Region and beyond.

The post holder will be managed by the Lead nurse and supported by the Senior clinical educator and transfusion practitioner for Haematology/transplant/TYA/transfusion, with additional support and collaborative working from the Lead Nurse TYA & Ambulatory Care/Withington Ward and Lead Nurse Haematology/Cell Therapy Specialist Nurses & Outpatients.

The post holder will be responsible ensuring administrative support in the educational requirements are delivered in line with service requirement.

The band 4 administrator will provide overall coordination for the administrative functions of the department clinical educator team and transfusion team.

This will require coordination of department educational activities, workforce training, clinical skills and key skills training and other professional education activities required in the department.

The Haematology/Transplant, TYA & trust transfusion services have core educational requirements to support the care of the patients and the service.

This will include supporting the haematology & TYA educator team/transfusion practitioners with the administration and organisation of projects and educational events.

The role will be working alongside the lead nurses, educator team and transfusion practitioners in the planning and implementation of staff inductions, educational events, completing transfusion administration registers and excel documents work alongside department leads with departmental service improvement.

The post holder requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills, excellent attention to detail and be highly IT literate in Microsoft functions as well as diary management and general day to day office and team co-ordination skills.

The post holder will be responsible for managing and prioritising their own workload and must have the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.

Experience of working within a team and prior experience in the NHS would be highly desirable.

The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year.

We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.

We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year.

Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Communication and General Administration

Ensure all communication, both written and verbal, promotes the work of the education & transfusion practitioners; providing effective interpersonal skills with a range of staff at all levels which is clear, concise, responsive, and personable
Ensure the effective support of coordination and administration across the educator team and transfusion practitioners.
Gather, analyse and present data, information and reports on education and training activities from a range of electronic sources on behalf of the teams
Provide day to day administrative duties e.g. scanning, printing, copying etc
Produce and prepare education and training activity materials e.g. flyers, hand outs, evaluation systems ensuring corresponding systems are updated, such as HIVE and Christie Learning Zone
In collaboration with managing teams, be responsible for the administration of education and training days/programmes, liaising and securing internal and external event facilitators/trainers, venues, and other resources
Develop and maintain records in relation to staff training in line with departmental educational programme. Monitor, update and maintain transfusion training register.
Monitor, update and maintain the transfusion special requirements register
In collaboration with the lead nurse and senior educator review the internal educational requirements on an annual basis or as needed, using appropriate tools for design and dissemination, and liaising with all areas across the department to ens