Vacancies

MDT Coordinator

Main Responsibility

You will be responsible for:

• Liaise closely with all departments involved in providing timely care for patients. He/she will be required to work closely and proactively with the clinical teams and work collaboratively to ensure that planned patient treatment progresses smoothly and in a timely manner.

• Collect, record and report cancer information as required in order to meet national, regional and local reporting requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring all patients with cancer or suspected cancer have pre booked appointments and treatment in line with the cancer access patient pathways.
• Making decisions which require analysis as to the most appropriate appointment for a cancer patient whilst considering other patient needs and workload.
• Responsible for the co-ordination, organisation and management of the weekly MDT meetings, ensuring all relevant people are notified, all required information, notes, reports, results and X-Rays are available.
• Attend weekly MDT meetings, complete detailed proforma or summary for each patient discussed and responsible for typing, distributing minutes, and following up action points in a timely manner.
• Maintain a record of treatment decisions made at multi-disciplinary team meetings and ensure that these decisions are recorded in patient notes.
• Ensure that the MDT team are acheiving key performance indicators
• Performing appraisals, reviews & HR duties associated with the role of line manager

Please see job description attached for full list.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have:

Essential

• Good general education e.g. GCSEs or equivalent.
• Accurate and efficient IT and keyboard skills.
• Effective interpersonal, organisational and communication skills. Ability to communicate clearly with a wide variety of colleagues and service users, both verbally and in writing.
• Good planning and organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work with discretion, sensitivity and maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload within a busy environment.

Desirable

• Previous experience in a similar role
• Team Leader/supervisory experience
• Relevant administrative or IT qualifications to NVQ level 2 or equivalent experience in maintaining patient care database by entering new information as it becomes available; verifying findings and reports; backing up data
• Experience of working to KPIs

 Other requirements: Demonstrates a positive commitment to upholding the organisation’s equality and diversity policies.

Package Description

As an MDT Coordinator, you’ll be part of our valued team based across our Grimsby and Scunthorpe Services within our North & North East Lincolnshire Dermatology Service. 

You will feel valued as a MDT Coordinator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Salary of £25,000.00 per annum with access to our group pension.
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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