Cancer Audit Clerk

Job summary
Do you have excellent administration skills, an eye for detail, ensuring completeness and compliance with the Trust data quality standards.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced administrator with good communication, time management and organisational skills to be part of our MDT team.

If you think that you have the level of commitment and the skill set that this role requires then we would love to hear from you.

Please note that this post can be based either at Colchester or Ipswich Hospital

Main duties of the job

• To ensure that quality data is collected for reporting externally for both Cancer Waiting Times, Cancer Outcomes Services Data Set and National Cancer Audits.
• To undertake and participate in initial and any further training requirements relating to trust EPR system
• To familiarise yourself with all the requirements for the collection of cancer data which form part of the national Cancer Outcomes Data Set (COSD) collection in line with NDRS (National Disease Registration Service)
• To support the MDT Coordinator team and Clinicians with the data collection and entry of audit materials and information for mandatory, non-mandatory and external audits throughout the year
• To support the MDT Coordinator team and Clinicians with the day-to-day management of clinical audit data

About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Previous experience of working within National Cancer Pathways
• Communication with stakeholders across different clinical teams and specialties.

Desirable

• Somerset Cancer Database
• Knowledge of National Cancer Audits

Qualifications
Essential

• Education to GCSE level or equivalent with experience of working in the NHS

Knowledge
Essential

• oUse of core Microsoft Office software including Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint

Desirable

• EPIC

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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