Mdt Co-ordinator

**Post Title**: MDT Co-ordinator

**Grade**: Band 4

**Department**: Cancer Services

**Location**: BRI

**Hours**: Full time (37.5 hours per week) Substantive Post

**Most attractive aspect of the Post**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Cancer Support Services Team which supports the patient pathway management of eleven cancer site-specific services.

**Brief Description of the Role**:
The MDT Co-ordinator will provide a comprehensive administrative service to support and cover the Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs) and ensure the effective management of accurate and timely data to enable clinical decision-making at MDT meetings when required.

The post-holder will coordinate, proactively manage and track patients against the National Cancer Waiting Times Standards. They will escalate problems to Clinical Business Units management and the Lead Cancer Team in a timely manner so that remedial action can be taken where necessary to ensure the Cancer Waiting Times targets are met.

Where appropriate the individual may manage a small team of staff, ensuring cover arrangements and support is available for the smooth running of the MDT.

Summary of most important Experience/Skills/Qualifications required:
You will require experience of working in a customer/patient-focused environment, excellent communication, good organisation and interpersonal skills and have the necessary confidence and competence to work with a wide range of professional staff, internal departments and external organisations. Flexibility and aptitude to work in a fast paced department is important.

The successful applicants will have experience of data inputting using Patient Information Management systems (EPR, PAS, PPM or alternative) and have an understanding of information governance.

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.

WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnership’s ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.

The MDT Co-ordinator will provide a comprehensive administrative service to support and cover the Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs) and ensure the effective management of accurate and timely data to enable clinical decision-making at MDT meetings when required.

The post-holder will coordinate, proactively manage and track patients against the National Cancer Waiting Times Standards. They will escalate problems to Directorate management and the Lead Cancer Team in a timely manner so that remedial action can be taken where necessary to ensure the Cancer Waiting Times targets are met.

Where appropriate the individual may manage a small team of staff, ensuring cover arrangements and support is available for the smooth running of the MDT.

The post-holder will coordinate all aspects of the patient pathway in their specialty and be responsible for prioritising work, reviewing work practices, setting up, managing and ensuring effective running of MDT meetings. In addition the MDT Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring all cancer patients are monitored and tracked, for maintaining the cancer database (PPM) and ensuring information is communicated to the appropriate clinical and administrative staff within the Trust.

Where appropriate the post-holder will supervise MDT Assistants and be responsible for appropriate supervisory and personnel arrangements.