MDT Co-ordinator

You will be required to work closely with clinicians, specialist nurses, secretaries, and all members of the Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT) and associated departments, to ensure that patients on a cancer pathway are proactively managed throughout their pathway in a timely manner.
You will be required to coordinate the patient journey from referral, through diagnostics, treatment planning and treatment, highlighting any potential delays in the pathway promptly.
Previous experience of working within an MDT Coordinator or Patient Pathway Coordinator role, alongside an in-depth knowledge of Cancer targets is essential for this role.
Candidates must have excellent organisational, communication, interpersonal skills and possess the ability to have difficult conversations in challenging environments.
If you think you have the right skills and experience to fulfil this role, we would like to hear from you., The post-holder will coordinate all aspects of the patient pathway and be responsible for prioritising work, reviewing work practices, setting up, managing and ensuring effective running of Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings. In addition, the MDT Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring all cancer patients are monitored and tracked, maintaining the Somerset Cancer Register (SCR) database and ensuring information is communicated to the appropriate clinical and administrative staff within the Trust.
The post holder will highlight relevant patients for discussion at the MDT meeting with the clinical teams. The Multi-Disciplinary Team Co-ordinator (MDTC) will provide a comprehensive administrative service to support and cover MDTs and Patient Pathway Coordinators (PPC) to ensure the effective management of accurate and timely data to enable clinical decision-making at MDT meetings when required.
The post-holder will coordinate, proactively manage and track patients against the National Cancer Waiting (CWT) Times Standards. They will escalate issues to the Cancer Services Management Team in a timely manner so that remedial action can be taken where necessary to ensure the CWT targets are met. To take responsibility for accurate data collection and entry onto SCR system ready for submissions in accordance with local and national requirements. i.e., CWT, Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset (COSD) and other national audits. In collaboration with Clinical Lead for the body site, work closely with members of the Cancer team and with other MDT Coordinators and PPC's across the Trust in developing policies and procedures that ensure seamless management of Cancer patients in all specialties.
The MDT Coordinator will be a member of the cancer services team, supporting the streamlined pathway of cancer patients through the trust. You will be required to work closely with clinicians, specialist nurses, secretaries and all members of the Multi-Disciplinary team and associated departments, to ensure that patients on cancer pathways are proactively managed along their pathway within time constraints. To co-ordinate the patient journey from referral, through diagnostics, treatment planning and treatment, highlighting any potential delays in the pathway promptly., The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recognises the requirement to promote health and reduce ill-health. The Trust is committed to the principles of improving working lives through a number of initiatives such as job share, flexible working and the development of a culture of openness and transparency. The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

The majority of the Cancer Services Team is located in the Southside building, adjoining the main hospital complex and consists of 9 bodysites and approximately 20 staff members.
An MDT Coordinators ethos will:
+ Have great attention to detail.
+ Have be methodical in their work approach.
+ Be able to work well under pressure to dedicated timelines, alongside both local and national targets.
+ Have extremely high-quality data entry to support reports submitted to NHS England.

'Prior consideration will be given to NHS At Risk staff within East of England'

The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of around 250,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. The Trust provides an integrated hospital and community children's service.
Patient and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by:
+ Putting patients first
+ Aiming to get it right
+ Recognising that everybody counts
+ Doing everything openly and honestly, Tier 2 Sponsorship : We are pleased to consider applicants who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK but it is unlikely that we would be able to appoint if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled UK/Right to work candidate is available. Applying for entry clearance into the UK, must provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement.
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Please note that should we experience a high level of interest in this post, the vacancy may be closed prior to the stated closing date.