An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated person to join our Cancer Services Team as a Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Coordinator.
The role is to ensure patients are tracked throughout their cancer pathway, are treated in a timely fashion, meeting national targets, and coordinate the weekly MDT meetings. Responsibility for ensuring patients move smoothly and efficiently along their cancer pathway is another key component. This involves working closely with other departments to ensure appointments and investigations are arranged in a timely fashion.
The post will involve working closely with clinicians, administrative staff, and managers to ensure that weekly meetings are held effectively, and making sure outcomes are recorded and acted upon. Keeping records complete and up to date at all times using a range of tools is a core task.
Enthusiasm, commitment, and flexibility are required for this role along with good customer service and excellent organisational and communication skills. The ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment with excellent attention to detail is absolutely essential.
You should also be computer literate and be able to work on your own initiative. If you think you are the right person to take on this challenge, we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide a comprehensive administrative and clerical role that will ensure the smooth function of the weekly cancer multi-disciplinary team meetings and facilitate the capture and entry of relevant national data requirements.
The post holder will also be required, when necessary, to cross-cover meetings within the wider cancer administration team.
About us
Based in the North East of England, we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre, and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network, and the Women's Network to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Job responsibilities
Responsible for the administrative MDT management of patients on cancer pathways for specific tumour site(s). This includes preparation of MDT lists, collation of clinical information, coordination of the meeting, documentation and distribution of MDT discussions/outcomes (with support from the clinical team), relevant data collection, and administrative actions from the MDT.
To proactively manage patients through cancer pathways to ensure that patients are treated in line with National Cancer Waiting Times guidance. To monitor patient pathways against national standards and agreed internal pathways (including nationally published optimal pathways) and escalate issues which prevent these from being achieved. Work with Directorate Managers, admin and clinical colleagues, MDT managers, and the Cancer Performance Manager to support the resolution of pathway issues.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to GCSE level or evidence of equivalent level of experience.
Skills
* Ability to demonstrate a willingness to maintain personal development.
* Relevant IT skills with knowledge of a range of administration systems including Microsoft Office.
* Ability to work alone and as part of a team.
* Ability to develop good working relationships with multi-professionals within and externally to the Trust.
* Ability to prioritise workload in a changing environment to meet deadlines and demonstrate effective time management skills.
* Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
* NVQ level 3.
* Understands clinical audit process.
* The requirements of this job will demand the person to interpret and use judgmental skills in extracting data from any relevant source, which is required for national and local datasets.
* They will independently make judgments to extract difficult clinical information and to resolve any data quality issues.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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