MDT Team Leader

NHS Jobs; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Team Leader to provide core support for the MDT coordination service. You will guide MDT coordinators, ensure continuous service delivery, and drive data quality across national datasets and audits.

You will liaise with tertiary centres, assist in governance of MDT policies, and support cancer waiting times targets and national audits throughout the year.

Responsibilities

• Support the team - provide advice and guidance to MDT coordinators using your system and national policy knowledge.
• Maintain service delivery: provide operational cover for team members when needed to ensure seamless service continuity.
• Drive data quality: contribute to routine data quality validation, national dataset uploads, and audits.
• Coordinate tertiary care: liaise directly with Tertiary Centres to manage and track MKUH patient pathway progress.
• Peer review and governance: assist Cancer leads with the regular review of Multidisciplinary Team Operational Policies and Procedures; administratively facilitate quarterly and annual MDT meetings.
• National Targets and Audits: support in the delivery of Cancer National Waiting times; ensure delivery of COSD, staging targets and Cancer CQUINs.
• Data Co-ordination and Clinical Tracking Cancer Patients: ensure suspected cancer patients receive prompt diagnosis and work with Trust staff to bring forward appointments; ensure MDT tracking systems indicate benign or malignant diagnosis and correct coding.
• MDT Co-ordination: oversee timetabling with MDT coordinators of meetings with the lead clinician; provide cross-functional cover for MDT team meetings when colleagues are absent.
• General/Quality Issues: supervise MDT coordinators, manage work allocations and training data; deputise for the Cancer Services Manager and report on targets like National Waiting times.

Job description

As a Team Leader, you are a core support for the MDT coordination service. You will:

• Support the team - provide advice and guidance toMDT coordinators using your system and national policy knowledge.
• Maintain service delivery: Provide operational cover for team members when needed to ensure seamless service continuity.
• Drive data quality: Contribute to routine data quality validation, national dataset uploads, and audits.
• Coordinate tertiary care: Liaise directly with Tertiary Centres to manage and track MKUH patient pathway progress.
• Peer review and governance: To assist Cancer leads with the regular review of Multidisciplinary Team Operational Policies and Procedures. To administratively facilitate quarterly and annual MDT meetings.
• National Targets and Audits: To support in the delivery of Cancer National Waiting times. To ensure delivery of national Cancer audits, COSD, staging target and any Cancer CQUINs for the year.
• Data Co-ordination and Clinical Tracking Cancer Patients: To ensure suspected cancer patients receive prompt diagnosis, and to work with other Trust staff to bring forward appointments if necessary. To work with MDT coordinators ensuring the tracking systems are updated daily to indicate whether Two Week Rule patients have a benign or malignant diagnosis and correct coding is in place.
• MDT Co-ordination: To oversee the timetabling with the MDT coordinators of meetings in conjunction with the lead clinician. To provide cross-functional cover for all MDT team meetings when colleagues are absent.
• General/Quality Issues: To have day to day supervision, work allocations and managerial responsibilities for the MDT co-ordinators (max 4), maintaining appraisal and mandatory training data for direct reportable staff. To deputise the work of the Cancer Services Manager by reporting areas where peer review measures or targets are not being achieved such as the National Waiting times.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details.

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust