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Location
Wakefield, West Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust, Kirklees Active Leisure Trust and Wakefield Councils are working collaboratively with Yorkshire Cancer Research and Sheffield Hallam University to implement the Active Together model to individuals diagnosed with cancer in Wakefield and North Kirklees. The Active Together programme will run alongside the existing diagnostic and treatment pathways to ensure patients are optimally prepared for treatment and beyond. It aims to maximise resilience to treatment, improve longer term health, minimise side effects and empower patients to be partners in their healthcare. This is a funded 5 year programme which will have staged implementation into all relevant cancer pathways. Patients will receive individual assessments and be triaged into a support pathway suitable to their needs. This may be delivered in Mid Yorkshire Hospitals, selected council and Leisure facilities closest to the patients home or may be a self-management pathway Key responsibilities Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care. Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management. Accept sole clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, and organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. Undertake the specialist and comprehensive assessment of patients referred from a variety of sources, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills. Formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range of advanced treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care in conjunction with the patient and carers. Plan a care programme for individual patients in conjunction with other professional staff within the multidisciplinary team (MDT). Provide specialist clinical expertise to colleagues within the team and referrers to the service. Communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation and explanation to encourage patients to undertake their treatment programme. Use verbal and non-verbal communication skills to gain informed consent with patients where there will often be barriers to effective communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive or receptive dysphasia, pain, fear. Assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who may lack capacity to consent to treatment. Participate in appropriate on call rota as required.
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£43.74k - £50.06k per annum
