MDT Co-ordinator - Salford

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Respiratory Team based at Salford Royal Hospital.

Working in a multi disciplinary team your work will help support the management of both inpatient and outpatient care.

With a keen eye for detail and a passion for the care, you will bring your experience and skills to compliment the service and drive continuous improvement for our patients.

• To use specialist knowledge of the patient pathway to proactively influence the tracking records using high levels of communication to expedite appointments/procedures as necessary and to resolve issues which could lead to target failures.
• To persistently track, update and upload all the data referring to the MDT referrals and update the electronic Tracking Records, Specialist or local MDT Teams and local Services team accordingly.
• Provide full assistance to the clinical team in the co-ordination of the Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings and representing the MDT Teams to disseminate the information regarding the patient pathway.
• Communicate effectively with all service teams, Senior Clinicians and other Trust Senior Managers. Provide support to the MDT meetings, including recording actions and outcomes and national data collection, and other data collection identified by the MDT.
• Provide cross cover support to other MDTs for annual leave, sickness and other business needs as identified by management team.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person specification

Qualifications

• Very good standard of education to at least a grade C GCSE
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience

• AMSPAR

Knowledge

• Experience of working in a very busy office/role

• Working knowledge of trusts current information technology packages.
• Knowledge of national waiting times/ performance targets.

Skills

• IT literate with developed skills in Outlook, Word and Excel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good organisation skills and time management skills incl ability to use own initiative

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]

For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.

In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.

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