Co-ordinator

SPECIFIC
Clinical Patient-Care
• Assist team doctors in receiving referral from within the department or from external parties.
• Performs basic screening and assessments for baseline data to track improvement of patient’s condition.
• Participate in outpatient clinic sessions, so as to be able to assist in the follow up management of patients.
• Monitor and track patients highlighted by team doctors, including patient’s pathological and blood results of patients, and reporting suspected abnormalities to the team doctors for necessary follow up of treatment.
• Advice and counsel patient on his/her care, to reinforce the information and advice given by their respective doctor
• Attend ward rounds with team doctors to jointly manage patient care as planned
• Ensure special investigations by doctors have been carried and treatments have been carried out accordingly for both inpatients and outpatients.
• Carry out pre and post-operative counselling for the patient (in accordance to protocol).
• Educate patient or caregiver on wound care and/or general care of patient
• Assist doctors in specialized procedures, according to team’s requirement.
• Co-ordinate and liaise with the other departments on the required care ordered for the patient.
• Co-ordinate clinic appointments.
• Co-ordinate re-scheduling/ changes in operation dates and pre-operative assessments
• To act as a contact point (or as specified by the department), should the patient require urgent medical advice.
• Participate in support group meetings, if available.
• Conduct follow-up calls to post-op patients and defaulter cases, especially cancer cases and various conditions that require close monitoring.

Clinical Research
• Collate data for retrospective studies
• Update and maintain sub-specialties database (number of database to be maintained is to be specified by individual subspecialty)
• Co-coordinating clinical trials in TTSH and NHG
• Assist with any other research projects within the department including liaising with Research Study Assistants of specialized Studies.

Service Quality
• Maintains timely and accurate records of patients’ information, including inputs by doctors.
• Participate and assist in preparing team cases for presentation during weekly Tumour board meetings
GENERAL
• Assist in co-coordinating programmes and training in the department and hospital, including public forums and medical examinations such as MBBS and FRCS.
• Assisting the Department in rearranging team’s cases according to Hospital management’s directions, such as rescheduling cases during situational events

JOB REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION
• Attained professional qualification (e.g. Bachelor Degree), preferably in nursing (not necessarily to be registered under SNB) or para-clinical disciplines

EXPERIENCE
• Prior healthcare experience will be an advantage
• Ability to work independently
• Good knowledge of Windows-based software
• Possesses good verbal and written communication skills
• Possesses good interpersonal skills