MDT Team Leader

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Cancer MDT Coordination team in a supervisory capacity. We are seeking a skilled Team Leader to support our multi-disciplinary teams by ensuring we meticulously track cancer patient progress, maintain high standards of MDT administration, and safeguard the accuracy of national cancer waiting times datasets and disease registration., Act as a team Leader providing day to day supervision, work allocation and managerial responsibilities to the MDT coordinators in the cancer services team, ensuring timely, accurate data and escalation of pathway delays.

To ensure seamless service delivery to MDT clinical teams, including covering staff absence and advanced planning for public holidays.

To work with both Trust specialties and Tertiary centre's to ensure up to date tracking information and escalation of pathway delays.

Be responsible for capturing information about cancer patients within their team, ensuring standard operating procedures are followed, and complex pathway issues are recorded in line with National Cancer Waiting Times guidance and departmental processes.

Work with the Service Manager to produce datasets or analysis assisting with the monitoring of waiting times or service development.

Help facilitate service improvement within MDT's, including process design, stake holder communication, staff training, supervising implementation, analysis and redesign. Undertakes complex national audits, including analysis, error correction, correcting missing data through clinical audit, working with clinical leads to ensure sign off and ensuring timely upload.

We arelooking for someone ideally with supervisory experience, hands-on familiarity with cancer databases, and a solid understanding of Cancer Waiting Times standards.

The ideal candidate will be flexible enough to step into any specialty area, work comfortably with complex patient pathways, and build strong, professional working relationships with both their coordinators and wider clinical multi-disciplinary teams.

Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting-edge research and education. With a "Good" rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.

As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities.

We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025 we opened our state-of-the-art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre. We have just opened the Oak Wards - a new ward block featuring two 24-bed wards.

Further investment is underway, including the recently approved Women and Children's Centre, set to open by 2030.

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