Team Coordinator - Cancer Multidisciplinary

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Team Coordinator to support the Cancer Services Team. You will coordinate weekly MDT meetings, prepare case lists, monitor cancer waiting times, and maintain patient records across the Somerset Cancer Register, liaising with other Trusts to ensure timely patient transfers.

As an experienced administrator, you will work with Cancer Services Managers and stakeholders to develop operational processes for each MDT, ensuring accurate data

Qualifications

• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Confidence working with data and multiple systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to prioritise and manage competing demands.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate weekly cancer MDT meetings.
• Prepare patient case lists and meeting documentation.
• Monitor and support cancer waiting time targets.
• Maintain accurate patient records and outcomes data.
• Work closely with clinical teams and external NHS organisations.
• Identify and elevate potential delays in patient pathways.

Skills

Admin skills

Attention to detail

Data handling

Communication

Time management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Databases

Job description

Job Overview

This role is internal only for employees of the BSW group only (RUH Bath, SFT Salisbury, GWH Swindon). Join our Cancer Services Team and play a vital role in supporting the delivery of high-quality cancer care.

As a Team Coordinator, you'll work closely with clinical teams, Cancer Services Managers and partner organisations to coordinate weekly multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, ensuring patients receive timely and effective care throughout their cancer pathway.

We are looking for an experienced administrator to work closely with the Cancer Services Managers and key cancer stakeholders of each MDT and liaise and communicate effectively with named MDT coordinators in other Trusts to ensure the efficient transfer of patients between organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate weekly cancer MDT meetings.
• Prepare patient case lists and meeting documentation.
• Monitor and support cancer waiting time targets.
• Maintain accurate patient records and outcomes data.
• Work closely with clinical teams and external NHS organisations.
• Identify and elevate potential delays in patient pathways.

We're Looking For Someone With

• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Confidence working with data and multiple systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to prioritise and manage competing demands.

Choose to Make a Difference at the RUH.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will prepare the lists of patients for discussion at each MDT meetings, ensure the NHS cancer waiting times data for the 28, 31 and 62 day targets is collected, identify potential cancer waiting times breaches, lead in the development of operational processes for each cancer MDT, facilitate the weekly MDT meetings and be responsible for the efficient and timely collection of accurate data, accurately and prospectively record in the Somerset Cancer Register all outcomes at the time of MDT and ensure outcomes recommended by the team are distributed to all core members in an agreed time after the meeting.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.

We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.

By working together, we make a real difference for our patients, each other, and our community. Every role matters in delivering the exceptional, person‑centred care we’re proud of.

We’re committed to a compassionate, inclusive culture where kindness is championed, differences are valued, and diversity makes us stronger.

We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential. We prioritise staff wellbeing – and yes, we even have a pool!

Discover what it’s like to live and work in Bath, explore our RUH staff benefits, and learn how we’re building healthcare for the future through the Dyson Cancer Centre and our commitment to research.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Foundation degree, Higher National Certificate or Diploma, Vocational Qualification Level 4 or 5
• Ability to proactively identified own training needs and identify training opportunities

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent knowledge of computerised databases and Microsoft Office
• Minimum 2 years experience within the NHS
• Detailed knowledge of medical terminology
• Knowledge of cancer and its management with an ability to gain skills and knowledge in a rapidly changing field

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of cancer pathways
• Previous experience of the Somerset Cancer Register

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent IT skills - email, internet, Microsoft Office and databases
• Excellent analytical, numerical and presentation skills

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of hospital patient administration systems, pathology, imaging and other clinical databases

Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered unless an alternative right to work solution can be provided. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa e.g. those with graduate visa's) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying: Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• B4 Cancer MDT Coordinator (PDF, 324.0KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.3MB)

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Laura Felton Job title Senior MDT Coordinator Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01225 821017