Medical Coordinator

Belmont Recruitment are looking for an experienced MDT Coordinator to join an NHS Trust’s Cancer Service based in Croydon on an initial 6-month temporary contract. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Tracking the progress of cancer patients through care services (e.g. Radiology and Pathology) and core services (e.g. Health Records.)
• Co-ordinate Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to facilitate the provision of care and core services
• Providing 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. 
• 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.
• Contact GPs following MDM (via telephone, fax, post or email) informing them of the patient’s progress on their pathway. In some instances, when the patient’s pathway has stopped due to patient choice, informing the GP what the next steps are.

Requirements:

• Previous experience of working within the NHS, ideally as a Coordinator level Band 4 or above
• Excellent customer service skills with ability to empathise with patients
• Experience of using internal NHS database systems
• Minute taking experience

If this role would be of interest, please apply with an up to date CV as soon as possible or contact Jade for further discussions!