Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated person to join our Cancer Tracking Team as a Cancer Multidisciplinary team Co-Ordinator/Tracker.   

The role is to ensure patients are tracked throughout their cancer pathway, are treated in a timely fashion, meeting national targets and co-ordinate the weekly MDT meetings. Responsibility for ensuring patients move smoothly and in a timely fashion along their cancer pathway is another key component. This involves working closely with other departments to ensure appointments and investigations are arranged in a timely fashion.

The post will involve working closely with clinicians, administrative staff and managers to ensure that weekly meetings are held in an effective way, and making sure outcomes are noted and acted upon. Keeping records complete and up to date at all times using a range of tools is a core task.

Enthusiasm, commitment and flexibility are required for this role along with good customer service and excellent organisational and communication skills. Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment with excellent attention to detail is absolutely essential.

You should also be computer literate and be able to work on your own initiative. If you think you are the right person to take on this challenge, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

     The post holder will provide a comprehensive administrative and clerical role that will ensure the smooth function of the weekly cancer multi-disciplinary team meetings and facilitate the capture and entry of relevant national data requirements.

·     The post holder will also be required, when necessary cross cover meetings within the wider cancer administration team.

Working for our organisation

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.