Cancer Mdt Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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2 x Permanent and 1 x Fixed Term

An exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic team player to join the team of Cancer MDT Coordinator team at West Middlesex Hospital on a 12 month fixed term contract.

The successful applicant will have experience within cancer services and knowledge of Cancer Waiting Times guidance and working knowledge of Somerset as well as a good understanding of patient pathway navigation.

In return we can offer you an interesting and rewarding opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the delivery of patient services

The key features of the role are ensuring that all patients within the designated specialties are tracked against the national 14, 28, 31 and 62 day cancer waiting time targets.

The post holder will be a member of the Cancer Services team that is specifically dedicated to supporting the streamlined pathway of cancer patients though the Trust.

The main purpose of the MDT Co-ordinator role is to track the pathways of cancer patients within a number of specialties to ensure that the Trust meets the requirements of the national Cancer
Waiting Time Standards.

This will involve collecting data from a variety of sources and entering the data items into the Trust's cancer database.

Excellent organisational and communication skills and a good attention for detail are key requisites for the role.

The post holder will also be responsible to support the regular Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings for a number of specialties.

This will involve working in close liaison with clinical teams to ensure that all relevant information is available for these meetings in order to allow the efficient planning of treatment for patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of cancer.

Key Working Relationships:

Cancer Manager and service mangers for their specialties/ booking staff Team
Multidisciplinary teams
Clinical Director for Cancer and Lead Cancer Nurse
Outpatient teams
MDT Coordinators at various other trusts, frequently at Imperial NHS Trust, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Chelsea

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains.

The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate.

We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Roles and responsibilities
MDT Co-ordination

Arrange, cover and coordinate the weekly/fortnightly/monthly MDT meetings for designated specialties to ensure they are run in accordance with the requirements of the national Manual of Cancer Services
Liaise closely with the members of the individual MDTs to prepare the information required for the meetings, e.g. identify patients for discussion, produce and circulate the list of patients and ensure

patient case notes are available

Circulate and collect a signed attendance register for the MDT meetings and maintain an electronic record of attendance for core members.
Document the outcome of the MDT discussion for each patient and circulate concise and accurate minutes to the MDT. Maintain an efficient paper and electronic filing system to ensure prompt and

easy access to meeting records.

Ensure that every patient with a cancer diagnosis is discussed at an MDT meeting.
Support the clinical teams to ensure that the outcome of the MDT discussion is recorded on an MDT pro forma and is filed in each patient's case notes and updated on Somerset cancer tracker.
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with counterparts in other local Trusts. Complete a referral pro forma and liaise with the appropriate MDT Coordinator for patients

requiring discussion at a specialist MDT at another hospital (Imperial, The Royal Marsden & Chelsea & Westminster). Ensure that any imaging CDs or pathology slides are sent to the other hospital in
time for the MDT meeting.