Pathway Data Coordinator | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent cancer treatment center in Manchester is seeking a Pathway Data Coordinator to join their NHS Proton Registry team. This permanent position involves managing the NHSE PBT Referral Portal, producing reports, and supporting data quality monitoring activities. Candidates should have effective communication skills and experience with hospital administration systems. The role offers a mixture of on-site and home working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Proficient in managing healthcare-related administrative tasks.
• Experience in data quality monitoring activities.
• Ability to communicate with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the NHSE PBT Referral Portal and resolve allocation issues.
• Produce speciality-specific reports and KPI dashboards.
• Support accurate data monitoring and compliance activities.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings and manage Registry opt-out recording.

Skills

Effective communication

Knowledge of patients’ pathway of care

Experience with hospital administration systems

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Pathway Data Coordinator to join the NHS Proton Registry team at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary, data driven team, and play a key role in the NHS Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) service. You will have the skills to effectively communicate with a broad range of colleagues, knowledge of patients’ pathway of care and cancer services, and experience of hospital specific administration systems. This role provides the opportunity to be an integral part of the NHS Proton Registry and NHS PBT service, facilitating timely delivery of treatment and aiding in crucial outcomes analysis to ensure the best treatments are delivered to patients, and continuous developments are made to the service. This is a permanent position, with the option to work a mixture of onsite at The Christie or from home.

• Manage the administration of the NHSE PBT Referral Portal, resolving allocation issues, and act as first point of contact regarding portal-tracked pathways.
• Identify and escalate any pathway bottlenecks and undertake failsafe coordination activities.
• Produce speciality-specific reports as required and distribute pre-defined KPI and performance dashboards.
• Support the Registry analytics division in the production of bespoke reports.
• Handle regulatory and compliance requests, including coordination of responses to Freedom of Information and Parliamentary Questions.
• Support with data quality monitoring activities, using relevant clinical systems and liaising with responsible stakeholders to ensure high standards of data quality.
• Support with policy and process development, contributing to PBT pathway policy refinement and work-instructions.
• Provide administrative and governance support to the NHS Proton Registry, facilitating Registry stakeholder meetings, and managing the Registry opt-out recording.
• Effectively communicate using appropriate terminology with colleagues across multiple disciplines, including the Registry team and NHSE stakeholders, the Proton Clinical Outcomes Units (PCOU), clinical stakeholders, digital service teams, and the wider PBT service teams.

About The Christie

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% of patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.