Cancer Services MDT Coordinator
Posted 12/06/2024 by Spire Healthcare
Spire Bushey Hospital in Watford are currently seeking a Cancer Services MDT Coordinator to join their team. The successful applicant will assist the Breast/ Urology/ Skin Cancer Clinical Nurse specialists and the multi-disciplinary cancer team to provide exemplary patient care focusing on appointment coordination, administrative duties to assist the hospital and the MDT pathway, as well as supporting patients holistically with the psychological impact of living with and beyond cancer.
Responsibilities:
- Provide administrative facilitation to the MDT meetings, including preparing, organising, and circulating lists of patients for discussion, and ensuring MDTs run as smoothly as possible to reach their full potential in discussing all cancer patients.
- Ensure MDT decisions relating to the individual patient's management plan are accurately recorded on electronic systems as part of the MDT meeting and subsequently distributed to appropriate staff, including referring Consultants within reasonable times.
- To proactively track patients to ensure their pathway through the system is smooth and efficient and achieves appropriate targets. This will include liaising with various departments to facilitate the timely booking of diagnostic tests and treatments.
- To ensure that all new patients' treatments are booked within target times and that any potential breaches of waiting standards are clearly escalated to the clinical team and appropriate manager in a timely way.
- To ensure that inter-departmental referrals are actioned and closely monitored, and information fed back to referring teams as appropriate and within monitored timescales.
- To liaise closely with Medical Secretaries to ensure that referrals are appropriately tracked and treated as far as possible within target waiting times.
- To ensure that the generic Cancer Services mailbox is closely monitored and actioned appropriately.
- Where pathways of care cross MDT teams and/ or specialties within the Hospital, ensure correct referral processes are followed and are supported with accurate and timely documentation.
- Work with members of the MDT and the Cancer Services team to collate information as required to support Peer Review assessments. This may include attendance records, collating data and information and supporting the annual MDT business meeting.
- To work with members of the MDT and the Cancer Services team in the development of the patient pathway and continual improvement of the service for patients
What we are looking for:
- GCSE (or equivalent) English, Mathematics grade C or above
- Medical Terminology qualification or equivalent experience
- RSA III Typing or equivalent
- Word Processing/Excel skills
- Experience of working with healthcare professionals/previous experience in the Independent sector / NHS
- Knowledge of issues of working with confidential information and understanding of need for confidentiality
Benefits
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- 'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Free Bupa wellness screening
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications
- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- ASAP
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- 19460_1718198029
- Job ID:
- 221816255
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