Job Description

Are you a competent administrator ready for a new challenge? Do you want to work in a role that can make a real difference to cancer patients? If you enjoy working in a team and have the drive and passion to help our patients, come and join our team, we have exciting opportunities for highly motivated, flexible, and hardworking individuals to join our Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT) Cancer Administration Teams. You will provide comprehensive administrative support and will work closely with healthcare professionals. You will be required to prioritise your workload and meet deadlines. It is essential that you are highly organised and able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team.
As part of the Corporate Cancer Team, we support and help our MDT cancer teams to deliver quality and timely, patient focused cancer care. We are committed to working in line with the values described in The Leeds Way to make work rewarding as well as challenging.
MDTs discuss and plan care for all patients with a diagnosis of cancer or a suspected cancer. The post-holder will be expected to help prepare, organise, and support MDT meetings to ensure patient pathways are progressed.
Main duties of the job
The role includes preparing, producing, and distributing lists of patients for discussion at the MDT meeting and capturing accurate data during the MDT, live typing to the patients medical record, and using medical terminology,
You will play an important part in tracking the patient journey from the point of GP referral to treatment and be responsible for ensuring that required datasets are collated, and accurately entered, to comply with local and national expectations and standards in terms of the Cancer Outcomes & Services Dataset, Cancer Waiting Times, Chemotherapy and National Audit data. (this list is not exhaustive).
The post-holder must be able to demonstrate excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills; work well under pressure and on their own initiative. We require an individual with administrative experience, competent IT skills and strong attention to detail.
We encourage applicants to arrange a visit to our service prior to an interview.
About us
Join our team in Leeds and become part of The Leeds Way sharing our vision and values.
We are one of the largest acute providers in the UK and our cancer services are provided locally, regionally, and nationally.
The Corporate Cancer Team aims to be fair and supportive with positive caring teams who are champions of the Leeds Way Values. Our values are what makes us different from other trusts. Our values have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work.
We offer flexible working (once fully competent) and a range of staff benefits
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Details
Date posted
29 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
24,937 to 26,598 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9298-COO-0086A
Job locations
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for the provision of a full and effective administrative and clerical support service to an MDT. He/she will also be responsible for inputting data onto the cancer database [PPM] database system and producing reports as required. The post-holder will be expected to arrange and plan her/his own work on a day-to-day basis within the overall demands and priorities of the department.
Please see the attached job description for further information. Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for the provision of a full and effective administrative and clerical support service to an MDT. He/she will also be responsible for inputting data onto the cancer database [PPM] database system and producing reports as required. The post-holder will be expected to arrange and plan her/his own work on a day-to-day basis within the overall demands and priorities of the department.
Please see the attached job description for further information.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Must be willing to attend relevant training courses
• Experience of organising meetings and taking minutes and/or live typing
• Knowledge of a wide range of administrative procedures including finance.
• A good awareness of and understanding of issues surrounding diversity and patient involvement
• Previous administrative/ clerical experience.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the NHS. Work experience in a health or social care setting.
• Personal or work experience of working with diversity e.g. disabled people, people from different cultures.

Additional Requirements
Essential

• Competent in word processing - Collate patient lists for MDT meetings and subsequent distribution to relevant parties
• Use of spreadsheet packages (Excel is used in the department) and databases (Datix is used in the department). Undertake routine data collection from identified sources and data input into infoflex sy
• Ensure data quality; work to maintain system integrity and ensure accuracy of information obtained and inputted
• Good written and verbal communication skills with good command of spoken and written English and Numeracy
• Must be willing to work within the Trusts policies e.g. confidentiality, data protection, health and safety etc.
• Attend staff meetings to keep abreast of departmental and trust business.
• Assist cancer MDT assistant and cancer information officer with the information requirements of the team

Skills & behaviours
Essential

• Commitment to principles of equality and diversity.
• Commitment to delivering quality services. Importance of maintaining confidentiality.
• Honesty and integrity. Well organised, able to prioritise and to work on own initiative.
• Able to work effectively as part of a small team. Good interpersonal skills and able to relate effectively to a wide range of people.
• Personable, patient, sensitive and flexible. Willing to learn new skills.
• Uphold patient confidentiality according to relevant legislation, e.g. Data Protection Act.
• Work to agreed timescales for the completion of tasks. Respond to work setting and deadlines prescribed by the cancer information officer.

Desirable

• The ability to communicate in an ethnic minority language and/or in British Sign Language would be a bonus.

Qualifications
Essential

• GCSE in English and Maths

Desirable

• Basic computer/typing qualifications

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Must be willing to attend relevant training courses
• Experience of organising meetings and taking minutes and/or live typing
• Knowledge of a wide range of administrative procedures including finance.
• A good awareness of and understanding of issues surrounding diversity and patient involvement
• Previous administrative/ clerical experience.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the NHS. Work experience in a health or social care setting.
• Personal or work experience of working with diversity e.g. disabled people, people from different cultures.

Additional Requirements
Essential

• Competent in word processing - Collate patient lists for MDT meetings and subsequent distribution to relevant parties
• Use of spreadsheet packages (Excel is used in the department) and databases (Datix is used in the department). Undertake routine data collection from identified sources and data input into infoflex sy
• Ensure data quality; work to maintain system integrity and ensure accuracy of information obtained and inputted
• Good written and verbal communication skills with good command of spoken and written English and Numeracy
• Must be willing to work within the Trusts policies e.g. confidentiality, data protection, health and safety etc.
• Attend staff meetings to keep abreast of departmental and trust business.
• Assist cancer MDT assistant and cancer information officer with the information requirements of the team

Skills & behaviours
Essential

• Commitment to principles of equality and diversity.
• Commitment to delivering quality services. Importance of maintaining confidentiality.
• Honesty and integrity. Well organised, able to prioritise and to work on own initiative.
• Able to work effectively as part of a small team. Good interpersonal skills and able to relate effectively to a wide range of people.
• Personable, patient, sensitive and flexible. Willing to learn new skills.
• Uphold patient confidentiality according to relevant legislation, e.g. Data Protection Act.
• Work to agreed timescales for the completion of tasks. Respond to work setting and deadlines prescribed by the cancer information officer.

Desirable

• The ability to communicate in an ethnic minority language and/or in British Sign Language would be a bonus.

Qualifications
Essential

• GCSE in English and Maths

Desirable

• Basic computer/typing qualifications

Skills Required