- Provide early input in to coordination of care ensuring patients access right care at the right time and deliver high quality AOS specialist nursing care
- Support the provision of the telephone triage advice for patients and health professionals with complications of their systemic anti cancer treatment and provide high quality advice to support self-care or prevent serious consequences by directing care (early recognition, better access to treatment, early discharge)
- Continually review and audit pathways of care to ensure that neutropenic sepsis door - to –needle time is adhered to throughout the trust; patients are flagged up and rapid referral to appropriate specialty
- Work as part of the ambulatory clinic for all patients requiring review post ED attendance or on demand presentation of symptomatic patients to avoid ED admission
- Review patients as a part of the oncology daily ward round and ensure delivery of the appropriate care plan (ensure appropriate investigations are requested and reviewed or unnecessary Investigations are avoided; timely referral to palliative care team)
- Act as a resource for colleagues within the Trust, those from other hospital Trusts
- AOS service will offer direct access for community colleagues, providing advice on investigation and treatment pathways for new and suspected cancer diagnosis.
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Consultant Geriatrician - London, United Kingdom - King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job overview
The post holder will provide expertise in their area of clinical practice, professional leadership and education in the field of Acute Oncology. This includes the ability to take a history, assess and examine as necessary, synthesise information and use clinical reasoning to diagnose and formulate a shared management/personalised care/support plan. The aim of the post is to ensure quality standards for AOS is delivered consistently throughout the trust and in line with South East London Accountable Cancer Network (SEL ACN) guidance and operational policy.
The post holder will ensure that patients presenting with metastatic malignancy of unknown origin (MUO) have access to rapid expert oncology input to avoid unnecessary, inappropriate investigations; are discussed in an MUO MDT; and receive rapid treatment for their disease and/or symptom control decisions.
The post holder will be expected to monitor the impact of the Acute Oncology Service, using a number of key metrics including length of stay; and work with the Lead Acute Oncology Clinician to ensure the Acute Oncology Service meets Peer Review Quality Standards and SELCA guidance/safety measures and is of a demonstrably high standard; and will influence patient care through expert clinical practice, management, leadership, education research, audit and professional activities
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital
services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the
Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net
zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in
order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's
carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation
and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on
sustainability, we can take Team King's to another level.
