MDT Administrator / Patient Navigator

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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Trust Corporate Cancer Services Team for an enthusiastic, well-organised person to provide an efficient and comprehensive administrative and patient navigation service to the Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Teams. The Corporate Cancer Services Team are responsible for the collection, collation and reporting of nationally mandated cancer datasets. The team work closely with members of the cancer multi-disciplinary teams to prospectively manage patients along their cancer pathway, committed to achieving quality cancer services for all patients in accordance with national objectives and standards. Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT) provide a specialist decision making process in a weekly meeting, reviewing all relevant diagnostic tests, radiology, histology and medical data in order to plan appropriate treatment for those patients diagnosed with cancer.

• Interview Date: 27 February 2024
• 25 hours/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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The MDT Administrator is an integral part of this team responsible for ensuring this happens in an organised fashion, liaising with all relevant departments, clinical and non-clinical personnel. The post holder will also be required to work with clinical teams and the supporting cancer information staff to capture and provide accurate and timely data to meet national standards. They will identify patients who may breach national cancer pathway standards and take appropriate action to negate this. Please note this role does not have any patient contact and is purely administrative.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.