Multiple Sclerosis Care Co-ordinator | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
This role will also have specific responsibilities relating to co-ordintating the provision of disease modifying therapy drugs (DMT’s) to patients with MS.
As a member of the MS multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will help facilitate the smooth running of the patient journey across all elements of the service and patient pathway by coordinating processes and monitoring the service provided to patients.The post holder will be responsible for the collection and monitoring of data pertaining to the service and contributing to service development.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Facilitate and co-ordinate the care pathway of patients on disease modifying
treatment (DMT) by:
- Ensure relevant investigations (e.g. MRI, CSF, blood results) are available to Consultant Neurologists and nurses in the DMT clinic to enable comprehensive assessment and initiation of most appropriate DMT.
- Complete high-cost drug notification forms as required.
- Establish and ensure the continuation of effective communication between the MDT team, external homecare delivery companies, injection support nurses, regional neurologists, regional MS nurses, GPs and the patient to enable seamless provision of DMTs.
- Preparing the list of prescriptions sent in by homecare companies and obtaining recent blood results from GP surgeries if they are not on EPIC and uploading.
- Monitoring patients’ attendance, following up as appropriate, particularly treatment-naïve patients and those taking DMT and ensuring 6 monthly reviews with clinicians.
- Telephoning patients with identified cognitive difficulties to remind them of OPA’s thus reducing DNA’s.
- Printing and sending patient DMT letters
- Ensuring patients attend relevant investigations as required to ensure safe monitoring of treatment.
- Attendance at the DMT MDT to and follow up on tasks from this meeting
- Booking patients into the MDT meeting
- To support the ongoing development of research within the service and undertake appropriate tasks within research
- Tasks and activities that support the MS team and enable effective delivery of care to MS and neurology patients commensurate with the position.
This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Sep 2024