MDT Coordinator | Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MDT Coordinator
Department: Cancer ServicesBand: 4 - £26,530 - £29,114 pa
Hours: Full time, 37.5 per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working
Are you bright, enthusiastic, organised with high attention to detail, with good communication and teamwork skills? Would you like to play a key role in ensuring our cancer patients get the treatment promised by the NHS constitution?
We are looking for a skilled administrator to join our Cancer MDT Coordinator team. Based in the new Cancer centre at Milton Keynes Hospital.
The right applicant will be expected to support multi-disciplinary cancer teams, by contributing to cancer patient tracking, scheduling, chasing, organising MDT’s and ensuring the national cancer waiting times dataset for their specialties is accurate.
The role is predominately desk based and will require use of multiple clinical systems, working with consultants, nurse specialists and other administrators while meeting weekly deadlines.
The successful candidate must be able to work using their own initiative, but also as part of a team. You will be expected to work across all tumour sites within the team providing support to MDT meetings and managing patients along the cancer pathway.
Please note that we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role.
Interview date:14.02.2025- Work as a key member of the Cancer Services team ensuring that our cancer patient’s care and experience is central to every stage of their journey.
- Support Cancer Leads in delivering effective, well-structured MDT.
- Ensure accurate and timely tracking of all required data for all of their cancer patients on Somerset Cancer Regsiter, while meeting the data standards for Cancer Waiting Times, National Cancer Audit requirements and local SOPs.
- Undertake all aspects of tracking patients to waiting time targets including escalating demand and capacity issues promptly at an early stage of the patient pathway.
- Ensure Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are being adhered to, escalating any identified amendments to the Manager.
- Be actively involved in continuous service improvement and developments.
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Free on-site parking
Free tea and coffee
Great flexible working opportunities
Discounted gym membership
Lease car scheme
Generous annual leave and pension scheme
On site nursery (chargeable)
Extensive staff health and well-being programme
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- To actively track patient’s progress on a daily basis, throughout the patient pathway to ensure care is carried out in a timely fashion and follows escalation and PTL (Patient Tracking List) processes.
- To ensure that all cancer referrals received by Trust are record in a timely fashion into Somerset/PTL and patients have a booked first appointment, investigation and procedure and record details on the appropriate electronic system.
- To collect and record cancer waiting times and report potential breaches
- To establish effective communications networks with MDT teams and actively participate in development and change to any systems to improve the patient journey and team performance.
- To develop proficiency in using all the Trust supplied patient information systems (Ecare, Ice, Insight etc), as required by the role to ensure accurate recording of patient journey.
Please refer to attached Job description for further information.
We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity, and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us.
MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.
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By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.
Upon commencing employment with the Trust, all employees (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are subject to a probationary period lasting a period of six months with an option to extend for a further six months to a total of 12 months.
This advert closes on Friday 31 Jan 2025