Main area: Cancer Services
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (or Secondment)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Job ref: 177-CORP-6534916
Employer: James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: James Paget University Hospitals
Town: Gorleston
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Cancer Services Team for a 12-month Fixed Term Band 4 Multi-Disciplinary Team Coordinator.
Main duties of the job
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, and interpersonal skills and possess the ability to have difficult conversations in challenging environments.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* Good general education with English and Maths to GCSE standard or equivalent
* Evidence of IT skills and Healthcare information systems - knowledge of working with MS Office, especially Excel and iPM or equivalent
Experience and Knowledge
* Previous experience as a Multi-Disciplinary Team Coordinator or Patient Pathway Coordinator
* Knowledge of medical, anatomical and oncological terminology
* Experience of interpreting and extracting information from electronic systems
* An understanding of the current national issues affecting cancer
Skills, abilities and competencies
* Good attention to detail and methodical in approach to work
* Good time management and ability to work under pressure
* Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive and confidential information
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to motivate, influence, inspire and encourage different and new ways of working
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