Assistant Cancer Tracker/mdt Coordinator

3 weeks ago


Crewe, United Kingdom Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The purpose of this role is to support the administration of cancer pathways by tracking the progress of patients with suspected cancer from referral through their diagnosis, first definitive treatment (FDT), and subsequent treatment if applicable.

The post holder will assist the MDT Coordinator/Tracker to liaise with clinicians, administrators, and managers in each tumour group as well as support services such as diagnostics to assist with the compliance against Cancer Wait Times (CWT) standards. This role should ensure comprehensive patient tracking in order to expedite and achieve faster diagnosis (FDS).

The post-holder will work collaboratively to support Trackers/MDT Coordinators, Cancer Data Administration, and the Cancer Data/Performance Manager to document cancer pathways and manage the Priority Target List (PTL). The role involves keeping a comprehensive record of clinical events, expediting and escalating where necessary to ensure timely appointments and maintain progress against best-timed pathways to achieve CWT. The role includes regular communication with external organisations to arrange Inter-Provider Transfers (IPT) in order to progress patient care.

The post-holder will be required to work across a range of IT systems and to be able to undertake a broad range of administrative tasks. The post-holder will provide statistical reports and data summaries where appropriate.

The post holder is expected to be experienced within the hospital setting with some knowledge of specialised terminology, educated to a level required to perform the role or equivalent experience.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE. The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.
1. To be proficient in all IT systems relevant for the role.
2. To assist with ensuring patient treatment plans and multi-disciplinary team decisions are recorded, transferred into medical notes and are updated on the relevant electronic systems, ensuring feedback to appropriate referring Trusts where necessary.
3. To assist with inputting outcomes data into the local systems in a timely manner during the MDT or immediately after the MDT, ensuring data accuracy.
4. Help to ensure departmental resources are maintained and utilised appropriately, e.g. support maintenance of adequate supplies and ensure equipment is kept in good condition.
5. To liaise with clinical teams and supporting staff in order to facilitate administration related to clinical work.
6. Provide early detection of logístical problems and escalate appropriately.
7. Supporting data collection for audit purposes and quality assurance;
8. Tracking of patients by updating relevant systems where appropriate, acting as a secondary tracking support to the Cancer MDT Coordinator and Trackers.
9. Provide support to more junior colleagues, including some supervision and training.
10. Actively be involved in the continued design of the service.
11. To be proactive in seeking ways to improve the administrative management of patients records and appointments.
12. Assist with preparing and circulate lists of patients for discussion at each multi-disciplinary team meeting (MDT) using information provided by secretaries, lead clinicians and nurse specialists.
13. To prepare and collate all the documentation, patients’ notes, x-rays, pathology results/slides required to support each meeting, thus enabling the smooth running of the MDT meeting.
14. To attend the multi-disciplinary team meetings, keeping comprehensive records of attendance and outcomes of the meeting, and distributing to relevant team members.
15. To ensure timely and accurate input of



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