Modality Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Maintaining modality diaries, coordinating the requirements of each modality service, and providing an efficient administration support to both the Admin and Clerical teams and Radiographer teams.

Coordinating and managing the flow of patients that are being treated and seen under Radiology at Various Community Diagnostic Hub sites whilst being primarily treated at St George's Hospital Sites.
To help with patient Radiology bookings at various community diagnostic sites, monitoring their pathways, referrals, requests, and all coordination required to safely treat patients.
To monitor modality booking lists and diaries, ensuring patients who require more specific procedures/scans are booked, also to provide administrative support to the admin and clerical team.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, St George's Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, and two health centres, St Johns Therapy Centre, and The Nelson Centre.

With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London.

A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma.

Main Duties/Key Results Areas:

To act as point of contact for patients and their representatives who contact the modalities and specific areas within the radiology team, this covers Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, CT, MRI and Paediatrics.
To help book and arrange for patients to be seen at sites under the Community Diagnostic Community hub and in St George's Radiology.
To ensure that the electronic appointment work list is updated and monitored, that all appointments are made within the specific waiting time requirements and that all relevant paperwork is correctly filed and retrieved from all sites where the patients are imaged.
To ensure images are on our PACS system when scanned at other sites.
To ensure that relevant patient data is recorded accurately in a complete and confidential manner in accordance with Trust policy.
The post holder will work closely with the St George's trust Superintendent Radiographers who are liaising with other diagnostic sites to assist with patient pathways and imaging wait times.
Post holder will be responsible for checking certain functions (for example renal function), bloods before patient is imaged at specific sites.
To assist other Modality Coordinators in Radiology if required.