Cancer MDT Coordinator

We are an award winning organisation providing care at two main hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—and a number of community-based services across London, such as sexual health and HIV clinics.

With 6,700 members of staff, we are proud to care for a diverse population of one million people. We are committed to ensuring that our workforce is just as diverse with a strong mix of skills and abilities.

Our staff are at the very heart of our organisation and we recognise the valuable contribution that each and every person working at the Trust makes. One of our Trust priorities is to be an employer of choice—a place where people want to start their career and to grow with us through continued education, professional development and support.

Site West Middlesex University Hospital Town Isleworth, Middlesex Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata+ HCAS (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 22/07/2026 23:59

The main purpose of the MDT Co-ordinator role is to support the clinical team and patient pathways at the Cancer MDT Meeting to ensure that the Trust meets the requirements of the national Cancer Waiting Time Standards. This will involve collecting data from a variety of sources and entering the data items into the Trust’s cancer database Somerset. The post holder will need excellent organisational and communication skills and a good attention for detail to be successful in the role.

The post holder will be supporting the cross cover of all tumour sites with dedicated time to support the Gynaecology MDT meetings where required.

They will work with the clinical teams and liaise closely with their band 4 tracker to ensure all patients receive the upmost care.

The post holder will ensure that all patients progress through their pathway post MDT, ensuring all treatment plans and next steps are in place or escalated. The aim of an MDTC is to provide the highest quality of care to patients and ensure they are being processed effectively and efficiently through the cancer pathway.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.

We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop

• Arrange, cover and co-ordinate the weekly/fortnightly/monthly MDT meetings for designated specialties to ensure they are run in accordance with the MDT requirements for Cancer Services - this includes meetings outside of the main treatment MDTs, such as, Diagnostic MDTs.
• Ensure all areas of the MDT are prepped in line with the requirements of the MDT, specific list needs, imaging and all required documentation as well as arranging where required pre and post MDT meetings
• Ensure that all required cancer outcomes and service data set (COSD) and Audit data is captured during the MDT meeting and transferred onto Somerset - this will include Staging Data, Performance scores, CNS present at diagnosis, next steps and other vital data. Ensure prompts are issued at MDT when this does not occur.
• The MDT Coordinator must review data uploaded on Somerset to ensure accuracy and completeness and arrange to meet weekly with the MDT lead and/or lead CNS to validate this.
• Circulate and collect an attendance register for the MDT meetings and maintain an electronic record of attendance for core members.
• Ensure a clinical member of staff is documenting outcomes from the start of the MDT
• Ensure accurate minutes of the MDT are circulated to the distribution list post MDT.
• Ensure that every patient with a cancer diagnosis is discussed at an MDT meeting.
• Ensure delays in patient’s pathway are escalated to services so they can be resolved, for example: diagnostic tests.
• Ensure actions are raised on the Federated Data platform (FDP 360) Tool for next steps required and updates are tracked tracking accordingly.
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