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Job summary

Main area
Neurosciences & Spinal Care Services L3
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22 hours per week
Job ref
328-NSC-6411230
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The James Cook University Hospital
Town
Middlesbrough
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/08/2024 23:59

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Spinal Cord Injuries Database Co-Ordinator

Band 3

Job overview

Spinal Cord Injuries Database Co-ordinator

 

AFC Band 3   22 hrs per week

The Spinal Cord Injuries Co-ordinator will be responsible for ensuring completion of the National Spinal Cord Database (NSCID).

 The post holder will work closely with the multi-disciplinary clinical team and spinal cord injury patients to collect process, clinical and outcome data, and inputting this accurately into the database. This will involve interrogation of electronic and paper health care records and close working with a range of health care professionals on a daily basis including Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Consultants and medical staff in order to ensure and assist in the completion of clinical assessments at specific points throughout the patient pathway. The post holder will also support patients to complete data collection forms when they attend outpatient clinics. 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have a sound general education, excellent communication skills and computer skills, evidence of time management skills and possess the ability to work with a wide range of patients and professionals. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to use own initiative to plan and prioritise a changing workload to complete data entry to a high standard, and to further develop in this interesting new role.  Experience of Microsoft Office software, including Excel, Word, Access, Powerpoint and Outlook is essential.

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including use of databases / spreadsheets etc.
  • • Good knowledge of clinical governance, including clinical effectiveness and Evidence Based Practice.
  • • Knowledge of Caldicott Principles and the Data Protection Act.
  • • Excellent verbal and written skills.
  • • Ability to manage own workload to ensure agreed deadlines are achieved.

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • • Good general education with at least 5 GCSE grades A* - C or equivalent to include Mathematics and English language. Band 3 And Above Attendance at foundation improvement training and the new and aspiring leaders program within first year of role

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of working with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • • Promote and foster good working relationships with staff at all levels.
  • • Willingness to work flexibly and to undertake multifaceted tasks.
  • • Absolute confidentiality must be observed at all times.
  • • Evidence of personal development.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Glynis Peat
Job title
Clinical Director
Telephone number
01642 282648
Additional information

Darren Watson, systems manager on 01642 282648.

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
The Recruitment Team
The Murray Building
The James Cook University Hospital
TS4 3BW
Telephone
01642 850850, ext. 57396
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