Cancer Mdt Coordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic team player to join the team of Cancer MDT Coordinator team at West Middlesex Hospital

The successful applicant will have experience within cancer services and knowledge of Cancer Waiting Times guidance and working knowledge of Somerset as well as a good understanding of patient pathway navigation. In return we can offer you an interesting and rewarding opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the delivery of patient services

The key features of the role are ensuring that all patients within the designated specialities are tracked against the national 14, 28, 31 and 62 day cancer waiting time targets.

The post holder will be a member of the Cancer Services team that is specifically dedicated to supporting the streamlined pathway of cancer patients though the Trust.

The main purpose of the MDT coordinator role is to track the pathways of cancer patients within a number of specialities to ensure that the Trust meets the requirements of the national Cancer Waiting Time Standards. This will involve collecting data from a variety of sources and entering the data items into the Trust’s cancer database. Excellent organisational and communication skills and a good attention for detail are key requisites for the role.

The post holder will also be responsible to support the weekly Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings for a number of specialities. This will involve working in close liaison with clinical teams to ensure that all relevant information is available for these meetings in order to allow the efficient planning of treatment for patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of cancer.

**Key Working Relationships**:

- Cancer Manager and service mangers for their specialities/ booking staff Team
- Multidisciplinary teams
- Clinical Director for Cancer and Lead Cancer Nurse and cancer nurse specialist.
- Outpatient teams
- MDT Coordinators at various other trusts, frequently at Imperial NHS Trust, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Chelsea

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.

We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Roles and responsibilities
MDT Co-ordination
- Arrange, cover and co-ordinate the weekly/fortnightly/monthly MDT meetings for designated specialities to ensure they are run in accordance with the requirements of the national Cancer Services standards.
- Liaise closely with the members of the individual MDT's to prepare the information required for the meetings, e.g. identify patients for discussion, produce and circulate the list of patients and ensure

patient case notes are available
- Circulate and collect a signed attendance register for the MDT meetings and maintain an electronic record of attendance for core members.
- Document the outcome of the MDT discussion for each patient and circulate concise and accurate minutes to the MDT. Maintain an efficient paper and electronic filing system to ensure prompt and

easy access to meeting records.
- Ensure that every patient with a cancer diagnosis is discussed at an MDT meeting and information updated on the Cancer database.
- Support the clinical teams to ensure that the outcome of the MDT discussion is recorded on an MDT pro forma and is filed in each patient’s case notes and updated on Somerset cancer tracker.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with counterparts in other local Trusts. Complete a referral pro forma and liaise with the appropriate MDT coordinator for patients

requiring discussion at a specialist MDT at another hospital (Imperial, The Royal Marsden & Chelsea & Westminster). Ensure that any imaging CDs or pathology slide