Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and forward thinking individual to undertake the role of Spinal Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Coordinator working as part of the Corporate Cancer team at Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will be an integral part of the Orthopaedic Spinal team, preparing all documentation for all Spinal patients being presented at an MDT. Excellent organisational skills will be required to ensure that the patients are tracked and progress monitored along their pathway using data and tracking systems.
Main duties of the job
Support & implement the delivery of robust systems for identifying, tracking & monitoring treatment times for Orthopaedic patients to ensure the Trust can comply with set targets. Work closely with relevant disciplines within the Trust/external agencies, in mapping patient journey from diagnosis to treatment, highlighting bottlenecks, opportunities for improvement & appropriate pathways of care that are relevant to Trust/Orthopaedic agendas. Provide full support for MDT meetings across Orthopaedics. This will include, but not exclusive to, producing the list of patients to be discussed, providing & analysing relevant clinical data (after discussion with Consultants & Nurse Specialists/ASPs), obtaining medical case notes, x-rays and results etc. Support the MDT in person & video conferencing facilities, reporting faults with equipment & following report fault procedures. Attend MDT meetings & take notes as required. Provide administrative support for MDT operational/policy/network meetings, including distributing agendas, taking/circulating minutes, as well as providing data/information for meetings. Follow up actions from meetings as required, making clinic appointments for patients, ensuring any investigations required are requested & referral forms sent to appropriate departments. Lead on the data collection & submission for the British Spine Registry(BRS), as well as providing general administrative support & cross cover to the department to meet the needs of the service.
Working for our organisation
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Work as part of the wider Orthopaedic team, particularly with medical secretaries, Nurse Specialist, ASPs and radiographers.
2. To collate and upload information of the highest quality and validity to supporting databases linked to patient pathways- this includes the national Orthopaedics databases.
3. To develop a good working knowledge of anatomy, terminology, treatments, drugs & medication, pathology and clinical coding relating to Orthopaedic conditions.
4. Support the quality improvement processes within Orthopaedics services by providing MDT Orthopaedics information.
5. Provide full support to the Orthopaedics audit programme
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
6. Educated to A-level, or relevant experience.
7. IT Qualification or related experience
Desirable criteria
8. Has Typing Qualification/Relevant Experince
9. Educated to degree level in a scientific subject or relevant experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
10. Substantial Acute Trust NHS clerical/administrative experience.
11. Able to demonstrate an awareness of the NHS Orthopaedic guidance plan, national agenda and local issues
12. Able to demonstrate an awareness of the Orthopaedics pathways
13. Familiar with medical terminology including anatomy
14. Experience in collating analysing and interpreting clinical datasets
15. Understanding of data management processes including implementing quality assurance processes
Desirable criteria
16. Awareness and experience of the Peer Review Process.
17. Experience of coordinating multidisciplinary team meetings
18. Experience of video conferencing