HIV/HCV Pathway Navigator

Job overview

12 months secondment opportunity

To monitor and maintain a robust pathway for patients tested within Emergency Departments for HIV and HCV. To be responsible for the cohesive working between ED, internal departments and external services. To ensure monitoring of results including ensuring repeat testing offered/arranged, signposting and referrals are actioned within necessary timeframes.

Perform venepuncture and Fibroscan® as required (training provided)

To effectively work across a range of IT systems ensuring timely results management and robust data collection.

To be a patient focused and compassionate.

To devise end to end audits and report findings to clinical leads/ managers.

To undertake any other duties which are deemed appropriate to the band when requested to by Senior Staff members.

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Responsibilities include:

Ensure that all positive HIV and HCV reactive and non-negative results are acted upon in a timely manner. Always ensuring the the relevant CNS and Clinician have been informed as per results pathway.

Ensure that any patient whose sample is rejected by the laboratory is informed and offered repeat testing as soon as it is possible.

Ensure that all patient entries and demographic information are up to date and accurate, escalating concerns over delays appropriately

Support the specialist nurses with nurse-led clinic bookings, preparation, and clinical tasks such as venepuncture and Fibroscan® examination of the liver (in-service training will be provided)

Understands and follows the administrative input required to support the patient’s HIV and HCV pathway

Co-ordinate all administrative processes for each patient’s pathway to ensure it is managed smoothly and within agreed time frames.

Participate in the collation of data to inform service delivery and the ongoing management of the HIV and HCV pathway.

Telecommunications with patients to offer appointments within a timeframe, provide instructions, reminders, and information where necessary.

Ensure the patient understands their care pathway and is aware of appointments and any changes.

Process confidential patient-sensitive documentation to and from patients and other healthcare professionals.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.