Mdt Coordinator

**Working Full Time**: 37.5 Hours Per Week

We are looking for a dedicated, hardworking and enthusiastic individual to join a team of committed and effective MDT Coordinators supporting a
busy Cancer team which includes consultants, nursing and managers. The role demands a high level of accuracy and attention to detail as the
post holder will be entering patient information onto the Cancer Database (Somerset).

The post also involves facilitation of the MDT meetings; ensuring patients are managed along the cancer pathway in accordance with national
Cancer Targets and Cancer Audits. Knowledge of Cancer Targets and Cancer Database (Somerset) would be an advantage.

The successful applicant will possess excellent communication skills, will be efficient at organising and prioritising a busy workload and remain calm under pressure; they will have an understanding of patient confidentiality.

The post holder must be willing to be flexible in their working arrangements as an early start may be required one morning a week, and days may vary, particularly during periods of leave within the team.

A working knowledge of general office procedures and Microsoft packages is required, but full training will be given in the use of Cerner and
Somerset software.

The post holder will track the progress of cancer patients through the cancer pathway from referral to treatment or a diagnosis of non-cancer, ensuring accurate recording of data for Cancer Waiting-time Targets and National Audits.

Liaising closely with consultants, specialist nurses, secretaries, diagnostic teams, managers and other staff (internal and external) in order to maintain efficient patient pathways.

To organise, attend and provide administrative support for tumor specific MDT meetings. To accurately record the decisions made at MDT and ensure these decisions are actioned.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.