Specialist Palliative Care Administrative Assistant

The post holder will work closely with a small and supportive professional administrative team

• Be responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out in accordance with the correct procedures and policies.
• Support the Lead Palliative and End of Life Nurse and the specialist team in developing the service and maintaining all its standards in line with NICE measures.
• Support workloads within the speciality.
• Maintain up to date records as requested by individual team members with regard to patient information.
• Actively take part in team meetings; including agenda setting, minute taking, room booking and ensuring meetings are attended by relevant staff by organising dates well in advance and communicating to all appropriate staff.
• Prepare documentation ready for the specialist palliative MDT weekly and facilitate these meetings.
• Deal sensitively and effectively with telephone enquiries from patients, relatives and colleagues.
• Ensure that data collection complies with the Caldicott and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).

Support With

Organising meetings including minute taking.

MDT working support

Letter writing.

Data collection and reporting.

Preparation of patient information & Registering patients .

Support for audit

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jane Carpenter Job title: Lead nurse - palliative and End of Life Care Email address: Sign in to view email Telephone number: 07355010305