Lynch Administrator

It is estimated that 1 in 400 people in England have Lynch syndrome (equivalent to around 175,000 people), but just 5% are aware they are living with the condition.

The national programme ensures all people diagnosed with bowel and endometrial are offered genomic testing, with a diagnosis for Lynch syndrome not only helping to guide more personalised cancer treatment but enabling their families and relatives to be offered testing too

The post holder will work effectively with our clinical nurse specialists and directorates involved in the delivery of cancer services by providing high quality person centred care to patients whom are on a cancer pathway.

The Lynch Administrator post will play a pivotal role in navigating and tracking patients along their pathway by:
Facilitation of MDT meetings including registering patients, updating the database, updating patient administration systems, preparing agendas, collating/preparing patient information and disseminating meeting documentation to multiple speciality departments.

Attending Colorectal (weekly) and Lynch (monthly) MDT meetings and undertaking administration duties inclusive of transcribing hand written MDT outcome forms and taking notes.

Outcoming MDT meetings in an accurate and timely manner, preparing and disseminating meeting minutes, updating SCR to ensure a concise and accurate record is kept of a patient’s cancer

Liaising with the wider MDT team to chase patient investigation results, appointments and facilitate an efficient patient journey.

On a daily basis update and maintain the database via

Maintain Lynch data capturing, for local and national audits

Work closely with the consultant and CNS teams, to process referrals and monitor outcomes.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement
- Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

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