Job Description

Job Title:

MDT Co-ordinator

Trust Location:

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, then Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is the place for you.

About the Trust

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is part of the National Health Service (NHS) and was formed in July 2010 with the integration of Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust with Croydon Community Health Services.

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.

Would you like to be part of a Trust that value, recognise and celebrate staff members? Who work as a team to provide a high-level service? If yes, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust is the place for you.

What you'll be responsible for:

The post holder is responsible for tracking the progress of cancer patients through care services (e.g. Radiology and Pathology) and core services (e.g. Health Records.) They will co-ordinate Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to facilitate the provision of care and core services. They will provide administrative support to these meetings, ensuring that all relevant information is available to enable clinical decisions to be made and recorded according to evidence-based protocols. They will also be required to liaise with other departments and staff within the Trust and at other Trusts involved in providing care and core services to ensure that planned patient treatment progresses smoothly and in a timely manner. The post holder is responsible for collecting and analysing patient information, from a wide range of systems, to monitor whether patients being treated for cancer are being treated within the target times as well as producing statistical reports for management. The targets must be monitored to ensure that if it is anticipated that they will not be met for any patient, the post holder is responsible for identifying this to the Lead Clinician for the MDT, the Cancer Management team and the relevant operational managers supplying appropriate patient information, and in sufficient time to enable corrective action to be put into place. Once corrective action is agreed, the post-holder will actively participate in the corrective or remedial action, e.g. chasing progress with diagnostic tests or treatment dates.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To be responsible for coordinating MDT meetings within the Trust, at a regional and, where relevant, at Network level. Collate all relevant information required for MDT team reviews and clinic appointments to ensure that it is available when and where required. To be responsible for establishing a timetable of meetings in conjunction with the lead clinician for the MDT, ensuring that an appropriate venue and attendee list is arranged. To compile and distribute the meeting schedule to all core and extended members of the team. To co-ordinate and distribute the list of patients for discussion at each meeting, and to communicate the cut-off time for the referral of patients for discussion to appropriate medical staff. To ensure all relevant information (e.g. notes or referral letters, X-rays, CT scans and histology reports/specimens) for patients to be discussed, both from the host hospital and other Network hospitals, are located and accessible in advance of the meeting in line with departmental guidance. To distribute the outcome of each patient discussed at the meeting (in the form of minutes) to appropriate medical and non-medical staff, to ensure that they are aware of decisions made. The service level agreement for the publication of the meeting minutes is one working day. To maintain computerised attendance records for the meeting using Microsoft Excel, and to make a record of all decisions made to demonstrate a full audit trail. This will normally involve taking minutes/annotations of information dictated by attendees including consultants, junior doctors and clinical nurse specialist. To work with the Cancer Management Team and members of MDT to ensure that the data collection pro-formas are completed accurately and in a timely manner. To arrange appropriate cover in the absence of the Consultant Radiologist or Consultant Histopathologist prior to the MDM, and bring this to the attention of the Lead Clinician, Cancer Management Team, Radiology and Histopathology Departments Managers. Contact GPs following MDM (via telephone, fax, post or email) informing them of the patient's progress on their pathway.

You'll learn the following whilst working at the trust:

1. An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS

2. Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times

3. A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation

You'll have the following skills/experience:

Excellent communication skills- both verbal and written

Microsoft office skills- Outlook, Word, and Excel

Previous experience in similar role

Ability to work under pressure and prioritise work

NHS System Knowledge- Cerner, Cancer targets and managing patient work lists

Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week

Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days

- call us anytime

Multi locational

- work across neighbouring Trusts

Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go

- access your "My Bank" shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone

Varied working options to suit your lifestyle

- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements

Training and development opportunities

- Keep up with the essentials and more

Build holiday allowance for every shift you work

- your work life balance is important to us

Stakeholder pension scheme available

- a flexible future for you and yours

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 14.06 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

Application question(s):

Do you have good attention to detail?
Experience:

minute taking : 2 years (required)
Work Location: In person