MDT Co-ordinator

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Part time

Job summary

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham is seeking a part-time MDT Coordinator (NHS AfC Band 4) to provide multi-disciplinary team meeting support across Arthroplasty, Bone Infection and Arthroscopy services. You will track patient journeys, ensure timely discussion, and record live minutes.

You will co-ordinate MDT meetings, gather past medical history, imaging or notes, and maintain accurate KPI data.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Experience of working with SharePoint and MS Teams.
• Experience of working in the NHS and using patient administration systems.
• Experience working as an MDT Coordinator.
• Knowledge of orthopaedic terminology.

Responsibilities

• Compile lists of patients to be discussed at each MDT meeting.
• Record attendance of members at MDT meetings and audit figures.
• Take live formal minutes of all cases discussed at MDT meetings.
• Assist in uploading imaging and requesting via IEP system.
• Liaise with regional trusts to obtain patient history and results.
• Ensure all notes and images are available for MDT meetings.
• Communicate required notes/reports to clerical staff.
• Provide training and support for clerical staff involved in MDT.
• Manage meeting structure to cover all patients and keep staff informed.
• Ensure action plans are produced and recorded in patient records.

Skills

Excellent communication

NHS awareness

MDT Coordinator experience

Orthopaedic terminology

Education

A level or equivalent

ECDL or equivalent

Live Typing or equivalent

Tools

SharePoint

MS Teams

Job description

Main area MDT Grade NHS AfC: Band 4 Contract Permanent: 30 hours Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday on-site) Job ref 303-8315750

Employer The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Town Birmingham Salary £28,392 - £31,157 per annum, pro rata if part-time. Salary period Yearly Closing 08/11/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 4

Job overview

This post will provide MDT support across the Arthroplasty service, the Bone Infection service and the Arthroscopy service. Working as part of an MDT Coordinator team with responsibility for tracking all patients through their journey to support the collection of the Trusts KPI data.

To efficiently co-ordinate the MRC/BIS Multi-Disciplinary team meetings ensuring all appropriate patients are discussed within the meeting in a timely manner and that milestones in the patient’s clinical pathway are recorded and actioned.

The post holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring the effectiveness of these meetings and will be responsible for ensuring that the next stage in the patient’s pathway is determined, for collecting appropriate data and recording live clinical minutes.

Main duties of the job

• Compile lists of patients to be discussed at each meeting including revision patients and bone infection patients.
• Record attendance of members at each MDT meeting and audit figures e.g. for Peer Review
• Take live formal minutes of all cases discussed at the MDT meeting of the agreed outcomes ensuring information is available almost immediately for all MDT/ extended team and admin.
• Assist in uploading imaging and requesting via IEP system.
• Assist in liaising with regional trusts to obtain past medical history, microbiology results and surgical history.
• Ensure all correspondence/notes and images etc are available for the meeting by liaising with other departments.
• Communicate with the clerical support staff the notes/reports required for MDT meetings.
• Provide training and support for the clerical staff involved in MDT.
• Manage the structure of the meeting ensuring all patients discussed against and relevant staff informed.
• Ensure action plans for each patient are produced and agreed, review arrangements etc. and these are recorded in patient records and communicated to relevant staff/GPs etc. where appropriate.
• Liaise with regional services regardign any external referrals into MDT.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist orthopaedic units in Europe. We offer planned orthopaedic surgery to people locally, nationally and internationally.

Our Trust is a very special hospital; big enough to deliver world class services and small enough to offer exceptional patient and staff experience. We offer a working experience unique in the West Midlands and we're always on the lookout for passionate people to join our award-winning team.

The ROH is an equal opportunities employer. We employ people of difference and are committed to growing an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated, and people feel able to bring their whole and authentic self to work.

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a range of inclusive, family friendly and flexible working arrangements and policies, to support our people in the workplace. Flexible working requests will be considered.

The Trust is committed to the Disability Confident Interview Scheme and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

If you have a disability and need any support with your application or require any reasonable adjustments to be implemented please do get in touch with the Recruiting Manager for this position so that the team can support you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Any other duties commensurate with the grading and nature of the post.

Please see the attached Job description

Person specification

Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Experience of working with SharePoint and MS Teams.

Experience

• Experience of working in the NHS and using patient administration systems.
• Experience using a variety of software packages including MS Office.
• Experience of working as an MDT Coordinator
• Knowledge of orthopaedic terminology.

Qualifications

• Educated to A level or equivalent experience. ECDL or similar qualification or experience
• Live Typing or Equivalent Experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.