MDT Coordinator | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £26,405 - £28,976 pro rota per annum incl. HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Frimley, GU16 7UJ |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6207294/151-DV-129 |
Summary
The Cancer Services department at Frimley Park Hospital is a busy service comprised of Tumour Site Specific Multi-Disciplinary Teams.
We are looking for a highly motivated and proactive individual, who has experience of working within a team environment, who will virtually navigate patients through their care pathway from point of referral to treatment in accordance with agreed pathway steps and timescales, proactively identifying and resolving delays at all stages. They need a strong understanding of the two week wait, 28 day, 31 day and 62 day targets, will ideally have previous NHS experience, along with excellent IT, communication, interpersonal skills and the ability to prioritise and organise their own work with minimal supervision.
The successful applicant will be a person that embodies the Trust Values and has the competencies to fulfil the core role, which requires the ability to efficiently and effectively co-ordinate tumour site specific Multi – Disciplinary Team meetings, track patients against Cancer Waiting Times targets to ensure Minimum Data Sets and Audits are completed, and capturing and accurately recording the relevant data for each patient in line with the National Data requirements.
The department encourages continuous personal development by supporting staff to attend study days, conferences and offering access to training.
• To actively track patient’s progress through the patient pathway to ensure that care is carried out in a timely fashion on daily basis and follows escalation and tracking process on PTL (Patient Tracking Tool).
• Specific co-ordination and actioning of process of cross site referrals to another specialty (internal within the Trust)
• General co-ordination and actioning of MDT – eg. Tracking patients post MDT, updating with requested investigations, referrals to tertiary centres, and general pathway progress on SCR
• To facilitate multidisciplinary team meeting discussion and ensure cancer data is captured and recorded on Somerset
• To ensure that all cancer patients are identified and discussed at MDT meetings.
• To ensure patients’ diagnoses, investigations, and management and treatment plans are recorded on Somerset to ensure cancer data uploaded is accurate.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
• To ensure patients have a booked 1st appointment, investigation and procedure and record details of patients coming via a different route on appropriate electronic systems.
• To work with key MDT members to identify areas where cancer waiting time targets are not achieved, undertake process mapping to identify bottlenecks.
• To collect and record cancer waiting time and clinical data and report potential or actual breaches.
• To train with service improvement methodology for Cancer MDT coordinators and other MDT members.
• To establish effective communications networks with clinicians and other members of the multidisciplinary team, and actively participate in development and change to any systems to improve patient journey.
• To use clinical systems according to guidelines, monitoring milestones and submitting the required reports in the given format and required times.
• To keep comprehensive electronic diary of all team meetings including attendance.
• To accurately capture the MDT outcomes and record on SCR i.e. staging of CT's, performance status COSD and relevant national audits etc
• Maintaining own personal and professional development, by participating in appraisal process and accessing training commensurate with role as highlighted by team leader/manager.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of staff including senior clinicians.
• Work collaboratively with clinical admin team within the trust to ensure appropriate management of patient information and co-ordination of patient pathways.
• Effective management of own time and resources.
• To be proactive in the pathway management of all suspected and diagnosed cancer patients through from referral to treatment.
• Understanding the risk of potential breaches and the impact from a patient, Trust performance and financial perspective and the need to provide evidence to enable validation of and uploading of completed Cancer Breach Reports.
• To provide cross-functional cover for all multidisciplinary team meeting.
• Work with Pathway Administrators to ensure all patients tracked effectively
• Facilitate Video Conferencing.
GENERAL:
• Any other duties, which may be requested by the manager to facilitate the smooth running of the department and the Quality Surveillance Programme.
• This job description is not exhaustive and can be altered in consultation with the post holder.
• The Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The post holder is at all times expected to promote and implement the Trust’s equal opportunities policies.
• The post holder is responsible for the management of risk in all the areas for which s/he is responsible. S/he is also responsible for ensuring compliance with the Trust's Health and Safety Policy. The post holder must ensure that duties are carried out in accordance with health and safety regulations. The post holder should not endanger the health and safety of him/herself or others whilst at work.
• The post holder must ensure that duties are carried out in accordance with health and safety regulations. The post holder should not endanger the health and safety of him/herself or others whilst at work.
• Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust operates a no smoking policy. Staff smoking is not permitted on any Trust premises.
• Infection prevention is the responsibility of each individual. Employees are required to strictly adhere to the Infection Control Policy (TPP124), procedures and guidelines and should actively encourage other staff and visitors to comply. In particular, ensuring that you use appropriate hand hygiene practices at all times.
This advert closes on Thursday 2 May 2024