Cancer Mdt Coordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Cancer Services department for the role of Cancer MDT Coordinator at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. This post provides an opportunity to join an enthusiastic Cancer Services team within the Trust. This is a key post within cancer services and an exciting opportunity to coordinate the ongoing work and service development across our integrated organisation. We are looking for an innovative, enthusiastic and dynamic individual who is well organised and motivated to join our cancer data team.

The role is based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital with potential cross cover at Lewisham.

The post holder will ensure that all their assigned Cancer MDT is managed and coordinated effectively and is responsible for maintaining consistently tracked suspect cancer pathways to a high standard. This role involves navigating patients through their pathways to treatment or discharge, ensuring that all patients are escalated in a timely manner to managers & clinical teams when needed and coordinating the preparation and chairing of MDM meetings, with the aim of improving the care and experience of cancer patients treated within the Trust.

Experience within cancer services and knowledge of Cancer Waiting Times guidance and working knowledge of Somerset would be desirable as well as a good understanding of patient pathway navigation and MDT management/coordination. In return we can offer you an interesting and rewarding opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the delivery of patient services.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

**Job Title**: MDT Coordinator

**Key Relationships**: Band: 4

**Reports to**: Cancer Pathway Manager
- Trust Cancer Information Manager
- Data Managers for Cancer Units / Centre
- Trust Site Specific Lead Cancer Clinicians
- Clinical Nurse Specialists for Cancer Care
- Cancer MDT Co-ordinators
- Out-patient Administrative Team
- Medical Secretaries
- General Practitioners
- Operational Managers
- Medical Records Department
- Ward Clerk

**Accountable to**: Service Manager

**Location**: Queen Elizabeth Hospital but with the ability to cover across any Trust site dependant on the needs of the service

**Job Summary**:

- To Coordinate the Trust Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings and provide administrative support.
- To coordinate specialist inter-Trust Multidisciplinary Team meetings (SMDT) held via videoconferencing and provide administrative support.
- To collect and register all patients diagnosed with cancer using Trust’s Cancer Information System.
- To track all patients referred with an urgent, suspected cancer and all patients with a positive diagnosis of cancer at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.
- Ensure all cancer patients with a potential to breach the two-week wait, 31 and 62 day cancer waiting time targets are identified and presented at the respective multi-disciplinary team meetings.
- Manage individual pathways within the MDT forum to ensure delays are minimized or eradicated.
- Develop good communication channels with the Cancer Centre.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Co-ordinate the list of patients identified to be discussed at the Trust/Specialist Multi-disciplinary Team meetings. This may involve identifying and adding incidental findings to the list, checking pathology results /reports checking admission list, chemotherapy data and palliative care reports.
- Add cancer waiting time dates in the list to ensure all MDT members are informed about the patient pathway dates.
- Provide cover for other MDT coordinators in any leave of absence.
- Track all patients referred with an urgent, suspected cancer and all patients with a positive diagnosis of cancer