Cancer Mdt Coordinator

Cancer MDT Coordinator - Band 4
Fixed Term 12 months
1 x 37.5 Hours

We are looking to a recruit an MDT Co-ordinator to join our team of experienced staff. This team help the Trust manage patients with suspected cancer through the hospital systems to ensure timely review, diagnosis and treatment.

The Cancer Services Team are a Close knit team who communicate and develop close working relationships with all members of the MDT, including Consultant General Surgeons and Physicians, Consultant Histopathologists, Consultant Radiologists, Consultant Oncologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists and other appropriate staff, to ensure timely and accurate transfer of information, for the benefit of patient care. Patient care is at the forefront of what we do.

You will be able to provide consistent patient-centred focus throughout the pathway of care, by providing one point of contact along the administration pathway for the Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs). This will ensure coordination of the patient journey, especially for patients that need to move between cancer units and cancer centres. The MDT Coordinator will be responsible for tracking the patient along their care pathway with the team and identifying potential breaches of the cancer waiting times and targets.

The role will ensure that all relevant patients are discussed at MDT meetings with supporting clinical information. Also, accurate prescriptive data collection and recording to enable effective patient tracking of all suspected and positively diagnosed cancer patients.

The post holder will be responsible for the coordination and organisation of the multi-disciplinary team meetings, and will attend these meetings obtaining and recording relevant information. He/she will collect record and report cancer information as required in order to meet both national and local requirements.

The post holder will be responsible for the coordination of reports, investigations, radiology results and clinic appointments. He/she will be required to work closely and proactively with the clinical teams and work collaboratively within the cancer services team ensuring the consistent delivery of service.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
Safety

Care

Respect

Communication

Learning

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**:
To track patients to ensure their pathway through the system is smooth and efficient and achieves appropriate targets. This will include liaising with various departments to facilitate the timely booking of diagnostic tests and treatments.

To be responsible for the efficient collection of Cancer Waiting Times and minimum datasets, and entry of this information onto the relevant databases whilst adhering to mandatory deadlines for data submission.

To ensure that potential breaches are identified and brought to the attention of the relevant departments and managers. To notify the Cancer Services Management team when a potential breach of the cancer targets is likely to occur.

To work with the Cancer Services Management team to eliminate any potential risks to patient pathways.

To contribute to the analysis of breaches and the redesign of cancer pathways as necessary

To support the flow of information to and from primary and tertiary care through acknowledging receipt of referrals and responding to queries regarding the patient pathway.

To provide administrative facilitation to the MDT meetings, including preparing, organising and circulating lists of patients for discussion, and ensuring MDTs run as smoothly as possible to reach their full potential in discussing all cancer patients. This includes the use of video conferencing and IT equipment as necessary; the location and retrieval of casenotes; and ensuring facilities and/or refreshments are booked.

To attend weekly MDT meetings and input live information on to the relevant database of the outcome of each discussion and any actions to be taken. To use this information for minimum data set collection and CWTs.

To record attendance at, and apologies for, MDT meetings accurately