Specialised Cardiology MDT Coordinator

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking an enthusiastic MDT Team Lead to join the Specialised Cardiology directorate in east London. The role involves coordinating weekly MDT meetings, supporting lead clinicians, and delivering high-quality administrative services to the cardio teams across sites.

The post holder will monitor patient pathways, track outcomes, and escalate delays to ensure timely diagnoses and treatment planning.

Qualifications

• Administrative experience in healthcare settings is advantageous.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary team activities is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings where diagnosis is discussed and treatment planning decisions are taken.
• Provide a high standard of administrative reporting to clinical teams.
• Escalate to services when next steps in pathways may delay diagnosis or treatment.
• Provide analysis of delays in patient treatment to support service improvement.
• Monitor and record outcomes at each stage in the patient journey with pathway tracking.

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated MDT Team Lead to join our Specialised Cardiology directorate. This will include co-ordinating weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings where diagnosis is discussed and treatment planning decisions are taken, monitoring and recording outcomes at each stage and following up on all outcomes of MDT.

The MDT co-ordinator’s post is to provide dedicated administrative support to Specialised Cardiology Performance and multi-disciplinary teams (“MDT”), working together to provide high quality care for patients. The post holder will be expected to be proactive in seeking feedback from clinical colleagues and initiate changes to team working practices to adapt to the CAGs priorities and the clinical team’s requirements.

Key working relationships are with patients & carers, GPs and members of the internal administrative team and clinical teams including managers, administrators, nursing and medical staff, allied health professionals and support workers. They will frequently liaise with a range of staff internally across the sites/Trust and with partner and external NHS Trusts.

This is a key role with specific responsibilities to support the Lead Clinicians and multidisciplinary team in identifying patients for discussion at the weekly specialist MDT meetings. MDT coordinators may cover one or more MDTs, as deemed appropriate.

• Co-ordinating weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings where diagnosis is discussed and treatment planning decisions are taken
• Provide a high standard of administrative report to the clinical teams
• Escalating to Services when next steps in pathways may delay diagnosis or treatment
• Providing analysis of when patients are not treated on time, to support service improvement.
• Monitoring and recording the outcomes at each stage in the patient’s journey with particular reference to pathway tracking
• Following-up on all actions / outcomes of the MDT at each stage of the patient’s pathway.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Saleha Begum Job title: Assistant Service Delivery Manager Email address: [e-mail]