Cancer Mdt Coordinator

4 days ago


London, United Kingdom Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Full time

Applications are invited for a Cancer Pathway MDT Coordinator role hosted within the Cancer Services team at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. This post provides an opportunity to join an enthusiastic Cancer Services team within the Trust. This is a key post within cancer services and an exciting opportunity to coordinate the ongoing work and service development across our integrated organisation. We are looking for an innovative, enthusiastic and dynamic individual who is well organised and motivated to join our cancer data team.

The post holder will ensure that the patient’s pathways are tracked fully and that the data collected is of high quality to ensure that national and local targets are delivered. This involves navigating patients through their pathways to treatment or discharge, ensuring that all patients are escalated in a timely manner to managers & clinical teams when needed and helping with the preparation of MDM meetings, with the aim of improving the care and experience of cancer patients treated within the Trust.

You must enjoy working in a busy environment and be able to prioritise your own workload. You will need good interpersonal skills with the ability to work as part of a team, be IT literate, and able to work well under pressure in a fast paced environment.

Experience within cancer services and knowledge of Cancer Waiting Times guidance and working knowledge of Somerset would be essential as well as a good understanding of patient pathway navigation. In return we can offer you an interesting and rewarding opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the delivery of patient services.

The role is based at Lewisham Hospital but may require cross cover when required at Queen Elizabeth site.

**Our values (and the behaviours these entail) are**:
Respect and Dignity

Respect our patients and our colleagues
Actively engage patients, carers and staff in decision making at every level

Commitment to Quality of Care

Provide high quality, safe and effective care
Effective and efficient use of resources to deliver excellent
patient experience
Be open and transparent in terms of our performance

Compassion

Put patients, their families and carers at the heart of everything we do
Listen and respond to feedback from patients, GPs and

other stakeholders

Improving Lives

Deliver the right care, at the right place, at the right time
Encourage innovation in all that we do

Working together for patients

Work creatively with local partners to secure benefits for local people
Support our staff and ensure they have access to the education, training
and development opportunities they need to do their job well

Everyone Counts

Respectful of everyone’s views
Open-minded and willing to change and do things differently

**Key Relationships**:
**Band**: 4

**Reports to**: Cancer Pathway Manager
- Trust Cancer Information Manager
- Data Managers for Cancer Units / Centre
- Trust Site Specific Lead Cancer Clinicians
- Clinical Nurse Specialists for Cancer Care
- Cancer MDT Co-ordinators
- Out-patient Administrative Team
- Medical Secretaries
- General Practitioners
- Operational Managers
- Medical Records Department
- Ward Clerk

**Accountable to**: Service Manager

**Location**: University Hospital Lewisham but with the ability to cover across any Trust site dependant on the needs of the service

**Job Summary**:

- To Coordinate the Trust Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings and provide administrative support.
- To coordinate specialist inter-Trust Multidisciplinary Team meetings (SMDT) held via videoconferencing and provide administrative support.
- To collect and register all patients diagnosed with cancer using Trust’s Cancer Information System.
- To track all patients referred with an urgent, suspected cancer and all patients with a positive diagnosis of cancer at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.
- Ensure all cancer patients with a potential to breach the two-week wait, 31 and 62 day cancer waiting time targets are identified and presented at the respective multi-disciplinary team meetings.
- Manage individual pathways within the MDT forum to ensure delays are minimized or eradicated.
- Develop good communication channels with the Cancer Centre.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Co-ordinate the list of patients identified to be discussed at the Trust/Specialist Multi-disciplinary Team meetings. This may involve identifying and adding incidental findings to the list, checking pathology results /reports checking admission list, chemotherapy data and palliative care reports.
- Add cancer waiting time dates in the list to ensure all MDT members are informed about the patient pathway dates.
- Provide cover for other MDT coordinators in any leave of absence.
- Track all patients referred with an urgent, suspected cancer and all patients with a positive diagnosis of cancer using referrals, pathology and inpatient reports, and MDT lists.
- Prospectively monitor the patient journey times for all patient



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