Cancer Pathway and MDT Coordinator | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6236603/214-CEN-6125505-A |
Summary
Come and join our team at King's Mill Hospital! We are currently looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Cancer Pathway and MDT Coordinator to join our Cancer Services team.
The main duties include facilitating the development of robust data collection and validation systems, data entry, tracking patients through their pathways and supporting the effective administration of cancer multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an established service that supports the Trust’s cancer teams. We use the Infoflex information systems to collect real-time data at regular MDT meetings and throughout the patients’ referral, diagnostic and treatment pathways. The data aids the clinical management of the patients and informs progress against national cancer waiting times targets.
To provide support to the cancer teams by navigating and tracking of all patients diagnosed with cancer or suspected of having cancer along the clinical pathway, co-ordinating all hospital appointments, investigations and their treatment, whilst also identifying patients who may potentially breach national waiting time targets and Cancer Standards taking appropriate positive action to negate this possibility.
The Cancer Pathway and MDT Coordinator will coordinate and attend one or more MDT meetings, ensuring all necessary information is available at MDT meetings to enable clinical decisions to be made by the MDT, as well as be responsible for data input into the Cancer Wait Time record and National Cancer Audits. Ensuring there is effective co-operation between departments and divisions involved in the delivery of cancer services.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
To understand the role in more details, please see the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024
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