Cancer Mdt Co-ordinator - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic individual to join the Cancer Services team as an MDT Co-Ordinator at Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust.

We offer agile working for 20% of the week and also flexible start and finish times to support with home life commitments.

Cancer Services are committed to staff development, progression and Health and Wellbeing.


An ability to work autonomously and to respond quickly to requests is required in addition to the ability to use your own initiative.


SECONDMENT WILL BE CONSIDERED


The post holder will work with clinical information staff; clinical teams across the Trust, Directorate staff and Support Services, for example, Radiology and Pathology.

The post holder will support Directorate staff in coordinating, tracking and organising multi-disciplinary team meetings for cancer patients. An essential part of the role will be the collection of data relating to the cancer patients journey.


The critical elements will be working to deadlines, investigating the patients' pathway, having an appreciation of the importance of data quality and managing a varied workload.


Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.


The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.


It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.


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Produce and maintain list of all new cancer patients diagnosed in the Trust by using a variety of sources and IT systems, including: IPM, CRIS, ICE that are held in other departments for example: Radiology and Pathology.

Liaising with all Clinical/None Clinical staff within the Directorates.

Plan, coordinate and administrate MDT meetings for cancer patients.

This will include maintaining a list of patients to be discussed, case note, film and results collection and recording requisite information at MDT meetings, for example:
Attendance, records and minute taking which is live recording of data and outcomes.

Be able to understand the medial terminology/clinical coding relating to cancer and to undertake training as required.

Develop knowledge and experience of relevant cancer tumour sites and understanding of patients' pathway.

Use knowledge and experience of cancer data to inform/advise colleagues regarding data collection.

Be able to collate.

Process and develop routine data on a weekly basis to produce timely and accurate information on cancer waiting times and the patient pathways for the Trust, Commissioners, Collaborative and the Department of Health.

Continually develop skills in the use of various hospital information systems and ensure training is updated.

Minimise risk in the use of sensitive information to ensure that the Data Protection Act is adhered too.

Respect differences in relation to equality and diversity ensuring colleagues' and patients' rights are not infringed.

Keep up to date with national and local issues relating to cancer and the collection of cancer data.

Implement and contribute to MDT operational policies.

Support clinical teams in developing clinically useful, accurate and complete cancer datasets.

Contribute to surveys and audits.

Staff should be flexible in their approach to working hours.

Key Tasks

Track patients through their pathway from referral to treatment.

Follow up on any diagnostic testing and ensure the appropriate staffing are aware of the patients pathway.

Ensure all tracking is kept up to date on a daily basis.


Working closely with information Services and clinical areas to monitor cancer waiting times and inform appropriate managers of any changes.


Ensure patient is seen with the appropriate timescale in order to meet national standards by liaising with Clinicians, Nurses and Administration staff regarding the patients' pathway and highlighting potential breaches at MDT meetings.

Ensure all casenotes and relevant paper work is available for MDT meetings.

Sending referral information onto other Trust or Services with information that is relevant to the patient's pathway.

General clerical duties including filing, photocopying and collating of documents.

To cover other cancer MDT meetings and tracking for other areas.

Any other duties required within the context of the grade.
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