MDT Coordinator
Posted 10 hours 55 minutes ago by Milton Keynes University Hospital
MDT Coordinator
Department: Cancer Services
Band: 4, £26,530 - £29,114 Per annum, pro rata if part time
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: 15 November 2024
Main duties of the job
• 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.
Working for our organisationNHS Staff Survey: Four out of five Administrative and Clerical colleagues feel they can make suggestions to improve the work of their team or department
You can expect a warm welcome at Milton Keynes University Hospital, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At MKUH we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities• To ensure all data is recorded accurately, to the required level of detail and be actively involved in data quality audit and improvement.
• Be familiar with tumour site specific national audits/spreadsheets or National Databases and enter data to these in a timely fashion from the completed data collection proformas
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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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.
Person specification Qualifications and knowledge Essential criteria- Good general education including English minimum of 5 GCSE (Grade A to C) or equivalent.
- Strong IT skills in relation to Microsoft packages including word/excel to NVQ level 3.
- Typing qualification or equivalent experience
- ECDL qualification or equivalent
- Ability to accurately and efficiently input and retrieve information on a computerised system whilst adhering to complex local and national policies and guidelines.
- Experience of handling inbound and outbound telephone calls of a potentially sensitive nature.
- Working in a busy environment dealing with large numbers of the queries from staff or the general public
- Healthcare experience.
- Experience of using video conferencing equipment.
- Relevant secretarial/ administration experience working within a clinical environment
- Experience of using IT/Patient data Systems.
- Audio typing experience
- Experience of using: E-Care, EDM, E-Referral, Winpath, PAC's / Insight, ICE, Unisoft, Somerset Cancer Register (SCR) or similar
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral, including ability to relate to people
- Self-motivated, well organised with ability to take responsibility for own work.
- Experience or working in a multidisciplinary team and developing effective working relationships with staff at all levels.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to plan, prioritise, time manage, use attention to detail and work to deadlines
- Evidence of working under pressure to tight deadlines and deal with difficult situations e.g. weekly schedule/deadlines, conflicting priorities or challenging conversations.
- Manage and interpret data correctly to inform decision making.
- Take responsibility for own actions, behaviours and achievement of work objectives and goals
- Minute taking skills.
- Must be able to work as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Stay composed with conflicting priorities.
- Ability to be flexible and use initiative
- Must maintain a professional approach at all times