MDT and Pathway Coordinator

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a focused MDT administrator and Pathway Tracker to join the Vascular Surgery team. The role involves managing 18 week patient pathways, validating and improving data quality, and ensuring patients have timely appointments within their pathway.

You will coordinate with colleagues, support MDT discussions with complete information, and ensure outcomes are communicated and acted on.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning complex processes and data analysis is desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Confidence communicating with staff at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Manage, track and navigate 18 week patient pathways and report at meetings.
• Validate, amend and improve data quality for pathways from referral to completion.
• Ensure timely appointments within patient pathways to meet waiting time targets.
• Liaise and coordinate with colleagues in patient management.
• Manage MDT and ensure correct patients are added to the list for discussion.
• Ensure imaging and external reports are available for MDT discussions.
• Send MDT outcomes to relevant colleagues and follow up actions.

Skills

Data analysis

Report writing

Planning complex processes

Communication

Attention to detail

Tools

Excel

Word processing

Email

Hospital IT systems

Job description

Working within a complex environment the post holder has responsibility for managing, tracking and navigating 18 week patient pathways and reporting at relevant meetings, ensuring that national and local targets are met.

Responsible for validating amending and improving data quality in relation to pathways from initial referral, through diagnostics to completion of patients episode.

Proactively ensuring the patient has timely appointments within their pathway in order to achieve the waiting time targets.

Liaising and co-coordinating with all colleagues involved in the patient's management.

Managing the MDT and ensuring that the correct patients are added to the list to be discussed.

Ensuring that all required information such as imaging and external reports are available and uploaded ready for the MDT discussion.

Sending outcomes from the MDT meeting to the relevant colleagues to action and following up to ensure these actions have been taken.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self motivated individual to join the Vascular Surgery team as an MDT administrator and Pathway Tracker.

We are seeking a highly motivated applicant with good organisational skills and who be able to communicate confidently with all levels of staff on a wide range of information as well as the ability to work under pressure as part of a team. Experience in planning complex processes, report writing and data analysis is desirable and excellent written & verbal skills are essential.

Attention to detail and the ability to prioritise and organise work with minimum assistance is required. Much of the work is reliant on effective use of IT systems therefore applicants should be confident in using (and supporting others in using) a variety of software packages including word processing, excel spreadsheets and e-mail as well as Hospital systems.

In this role, you will also be responsible for validating, amending, tracking and navigating 18 week patient pathways and improving data quality for all patients under the Vascular Surgery service as well as ensuring our patients are booked within local and national targets.

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.