Mdt Co-ordinator

**MDT Co-Ordinator - Croydon**

NHS Professionals are looking for a temporary MDT Co-Ordinator to work for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon._
These include:

- Croydon University Hospital
- Purley Hospital
- The Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre in Thornton Heath
- Community bases at Purley, Sanderstead, New Addington, Broad Green, Woodside
- A minor injuries unit in New Addington_

**Title:MDT C0-Ordinator - Cancer Services**

Pay Rate: £13.26ph, plus holiday pay

Location: Croydon University Hospital, 530 London Road, Croydon CR7 7YE

Duration: 3 months (_This role is temporary, however you will be recruited to our Staffbank, therefore you will be offered other available roles upon completion_)

Working Pattern: Full time, Monday to Friday

Essential Requirements: Good IT skills, Cancer waiting times knowledge, Info flex knowledge desirable

**Job Role**

To be responsible for tracking the progress of cancer patients through care services (e.g. Radiology and Pathology) and core services (e.g. Health Records.)

You will co-ordinate Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to facilitate the provision of care and core services. You will provide administrative support to these meetings, ensuring that all relevant information is available to enable clinical decisionsto be made and recorded according to evidence-based protocols.

You will also be required to liaise with other departments and staff within the Trust and at other Trusts involved in providing care and core services to ensure that planned patient treatment progresses smoothly and in a timely manner.

You will be responsible for collecting and analysing patient information, from a wide range of systems, monitor whether patients being treated for cancer are being treated within the target times as well as producing statistical reports for management. Thetargets must be monitored to ensure that if it is anticipated that they will not be met for any patient, the post holder is responsible for identifying this to the Lead Clinician for the MDT, the Cancer Management team and the relevant operational managerssupplying appropriate patient information, and in sufficient time to enable corrective action to be put into place. Once corrective action is agreed, the post-holder will actively participate in the corrective or remedial action, e.g. chasing progress withdiagnostic tests or treatment dates.

You will also work as a 'buddy' for MDT Co-ordinators monitoring patients on other tumour pathways.. This will involve building up a working knowledge of the processes and practices' in another tumour types so that they are able to provide a basic levelof cover, when required.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - MDT Meetings**

To be responsible for coordinating MDT meetings within the Trust, at a regional and, where relevant, at Network level.

Collate all relevant information required for MDT team reviews and clinic appointments to ensure that it is available when and where required.

To be responsible for establishing a timetable of meetings in conjunction with the lead clinician for the MDT, ensuring that an appropriate venue and attendee list is arranged.

To compile and distribute the meeting schedule to all core and extended members of the team.

To co-ordinate and distribute the list of patients for discussion at each meeting, and to communicate the cut-off time for the referral of patients for discussion to appropriate medical staff.

To ensure all relevant information (e.g. notes or referral letters, X-rays, CT scans and histology reports/specimens) for patients to be discussed, both from the host hospital and other Network hospitals, are located and accessible in advance of the meetingin line with departmental guidance.

To attend all MDT meetings within the scope of the role. These may start at 8am or finish at 6pm, and hence flexibility in working hours is required.

To distribute the outcome of each patient discussed at the meeting (in the form of minutes) to appropriate medical and non medical staff, to ensure that they are aware of decisions made. The service level agreement for the publication of the meeting minutesis one working day.

To maintain computerised attendance records for the meeting using Microsoft Excel, and to make a record of all decisions made to demonstrate a full audit trail. This will normally involve taking minutes/annotations of information dictated by attendeesincluding consultants, junior doctors and clinical nurse specialist.

To work with the Cancer Management Team and members of MDT to ensure that the data collection pro-formas are completed accurately and in a timely manner.

To arrange appropriate cover in the absence of the Consultant Radiologist or Consultant Histopathologist prior to the MDM, and bring this to the attention of the Lead Clinician, Cancer Management Team, Radiology and Histopathology Departments Managers.
- COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourageour bank members who are not clinically exempt from vaccination to get vaccinated._