MDT Co-ordinator - Cancer Services, Band 4

MDT Co‑ordinator - Cancer Services, Band 4

Main area:
Diagnostics and Specialities Division – Cancer Services, Grade Band 4.

Contract:

Permanent.

Hours:

Full time – 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday – working pattern to be agreed). Job
-26-T0466

Site:
Trustwide (Cheltenham General / Gloucestershire Royal Hospital). Town:
Gloucestershire.

Salary: £28,392 – £31,157 per annum, pro‑rata if part‑time. Closing: 29/07/2026 23:59.

MDT coordinators play a vital role ensuring patients with suspected cancer are investigated, diagnosed and treated in a timely manner in accordance with national time frames. Duties include coordination of meetings, cancer data collection and maintaining an overall view of cancer waiting times to ensure patients are seen and treated within the national targets and that each patient’s pathway is proactively tracked and recorded accurately.

The post holder attends the MDT meetings and records the outcome of each discussion, enabling successful tracking through the patient pathway.

• Act as a coordinator and provide administrative support to the MDT.
• Prepare and maintain all related documentation for the smooth running of MDT meetings.
• Assist in site‑specific data collection processes, cancer waiting times and national cancer datasets, including input into various information systems.
• Liaise with departments involved in providing care and core services to ensure planned patient treatment progresses smoothly and timely.

• Provide administrative facilitation and support to the MDT’s weekly meeting, including organising venue, creating and circulating discussion lists, and ensuring all appropriate patients are included.
• Ensure radiology images, histopathology slides, patient notes and other necessary information are available to view as required, liaising with staff at all levels.
• Attend the meeting and accurately record the outcome of the discussions, using the Cancer Management System live in the meeting where possible.
• Keep accurate records of MDT attendance, including an up‑to‑date list of core members.
• Ensure that following the meeting all actions recommended by the team are followed up appropriately.
• Appropriately track patient investigations to bring them back through the MDT.
• Ensure validated MDT outcomes are circulated to the core and extended team members by the end of the next working day.
• Initiate and develop methods to promote the efficient running of the MDT, working closely with Nurse Specialists, Consultants, Secretaries and other key staff.
• Work closely with the Cancer Services Team Leaders, MDT Leads and clinical teams to introduce and improve data collection systems across each patient pathway.
• Identify and interpret information in patient’s paper and electronic records, entering this into the Cancer Management System to build a comprehensive record on each cancer patient.
• Monitor the Trust’s adherence to the National Cancer Waiting Times targets (2‑week wait, 28‑day to diagnosis, 62‑day and 31‑day treatment targets), ensuring all compliance information is entered onto the Cancer Management System in a timely manner.
• Develop tracking systems for all patients suspected or diagnosed with cancer to ensure compliance with the above targets.
• Work with the MDT Leads, the Cancer Services Team Leaders and Divisional Leads to identify problem areas within individual pathways, escalating concerns timely and responsibly.
• Manage areas of the Cancer PTL related to the MDT(s) covered, ensuring all parts of pathways of care are delivered in a timely manner, for example arranging diagnostic or treatment procedures to be expedited when booked outside of treatment date, escalating as necessary.
• Ensure issues requiring resolution relating to the PTL are brought to the weekly PTL meetings; where necessary, escalation should occur immediately without waiting for the meeting.
• Act as an expert user of the Cancer Management System, providing training and support to other users within the team.
• Develop robust and effective communication channels with all departments and individuals relevant to the MDT(s) covered, both internally and externally.
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