Mdt Coordinator

The MDT Coordinator will be part of a wider business support function and has a key role in providing coordinated care to patients by developing, monitoring, and evaluating interdisciplinary care. Providing support across the full range of office and service activities, including the smooth running of the office, reception and front of house duties and administrative support to a range of frontline clinicians & managers.

Oldham Total Skin Service & North and North East Lincolnshire Dermatology is run by HCRG Care Group on behalf of Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group & North and North East Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group. We provide patients with access to high quality dermatology service for patients registered with Oldham GP surgeries.

We provide consultation, advice and treatment from consultants, specialist GPs and specialist nurses for a wide range of dermatological problems (skin complaints).

This is a full-time (37.5 hours per week) hybrid role with the opportunity to work from home 2 days per week. This role is based in Oldham with the requirement to travel to Grimsby or Scunthorpe as required for training and/or meetings on an ad hoc basis. Therefor, a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.

 
Package DescriptionAs an MDT Co-ordinator, you’ll be part of our valued team based in our Oldham Total Skin Care Service and our North & North East Lincolnshire Dermatology. 

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

Salary of £24,500 per annum with to our group pension
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

Main ResponsibilitiesYou will be participating in meetings while coordinating information and care requirements with other care providers. Resolving issues that could affect smooth care progression.

This includes the monitoring of delivery of care by;

documenting care;
identifying progress toward desired care outcomes;
intervening to overcome deviations in the expected plan of care;
reviewing the care plan with patients in conjunction with the direct care providers;
interacting with involved departments to negotiate and expedite scheduling and completion of tests, procedures, and consults;
reporting personnel and performance issues to the national lead and service manager;
maintaining ongoing communication with staff regarding variances from the care plan or transfer/discharge plan.
Proactively tracks the progress of suspected cancer patient along their pathway from point of referral to diagnosis and first treatment; this will include the co-ordination of reports, X-Rays/investigation results and clinic appointments to expedite the patients diagnosis and treatment
Responsible for the co-ordination and organisation of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings and will attend weekly meetings obtaining, recording relevant information facilitate the timely provision of care for patients
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
Proactively track all patients with cancer or suspected cancer and take appropriate action to ensure a timely diagnosis and treatment for cancer patients, as required to achieve cancer access targets.
Responsible for ensuring all patients with cancer or suspected cancer have pre booked appointments and treatment in line with the cancer access patient pathways.
To negotiate with clinical staff, booking team and admin staff when clinic slots are insufficient in order to facilitate an appointment for patients at the earliest opportunity. To escalate this to the relevant Senior and service manager if there is insufficient capacity to meet the agreed patient pathway standards.
Making decisions which require analysis as to the most appropriate appointment for a cancer patient whilst considering other patient needs and workload.
To collect, maintain and input information to support databases for weekly performance reports relating to cancer patients including the tracking of patients and discussion at the MDT

Please see the attached Job description for Full Responsibilities. 

 
The Ideal CandidateThe 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.

A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.
About The CompanyWe 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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