Mdt Co-ordinator

At East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 7,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and organised person to work as part of a team of MDT Coordinators and Cancer Data Coordinators. The post holder must have relevant administrative experience and be able to demonstrate some exposure to medical terminology. Excellent word processing/typing skills and database skills are also required.

This role is a support MDT coordinator for the existing MDT team and will involve working across different tumour sites and covering various different aspects of the role as required.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cancer Services team which plays a vital role in facilitating weekly cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings where patient care and treatment plans for cancer patients are discussed and agreed.

MDT Support

Liaise with Consultants, medical secretaries and specialist nurses to ensure that all appropriate patients are identified and included on the MDT list for discussion at the MDT meeting and distribute the lists within a reasonable timescale before the meeting. Include all the relevant clinical data about the patient that is required for the MDT discussion.

Ensure case notes, imaging and results are available at MDT meetings. This will involve liaising closely with several departments currently undertaking parts of this work.

Attend each MDT meeting, recording minutes of the discussion. Following the meeting, provide the core MDT members with the minutes and actions required.

Ensure that any investigations and treatments and any actions from the MDT are booked in a timely manner, avoiding any delay in this process.

Maintain an attendance register and updated list of MDT membership.

Schedule future dates for MDT meetings and ensure a suitable venue is booked on an annual basis. Send out agendas and dates to the appropriate MDT members.

Provide Consultants and MDT members with dates of when patients should be treated by, to adhere to the Cancer Waiting Times 31 day and 62-day treatment targets.

Patient Pathway

Track and guide (virtually) the patient through the cancer pathway using the Hospital systems ensuring there are no delays which will prevent the patient achieving the cancer waiting time targets.

Ensure diagnostic investigations are carried out in a timely manner and the results of such are made available as soon as possible to clinicians

In conjunction with the Cancer Services Data Coordinators, be responsible for identifying patients coming into the Trust referred either via the 2 week wait route or other routes (at positive histology).

Track and guide (virtually) the patient through the hospital system ensuring there are no system delays which will prevent the patient achieving the cancer waiting time targets.

Be responsible for identifying and resolving delays in the patient pathway. Where this is not possible, ways forward to be discussed and agreed with the Business Manager Cancer Services.

Work closely with the relevant Cancer Services Coordinators in the exchange of data in relation to the Cancer patient journey. Ensure all data in relation to the patient journey is supplied to the Data Coordinators for input onto the Cancer Services Database.

Highlight any regular system bottlenecks and contribute ideas to resolve these.

Work closely with the Cancer Management Team and Service Improvement Leads to continually improve the patient journey.

Ensure data entry of patient details to Cancer Database.

Be able to identify and advise clinical teams on when adjustments can be made to the patient journey, ensuring these are documented in both the patient case notes and within the Cancer Database.

Support and attend weekly Patient Tracking List (PTL) meetings, which involve the Business Managers, Assistant Business Managers, MDT Coordinators and Cancer Business Manager. Ensure all recommended actions are dealt with expediently and escalation procedures.