Thoracic MDT Team Leader

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 April 2025

Job summary

We are looking for an organised and proactive Thoracic MDT Team Leader to manage and support our administrative team within the Thoracic Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). You will ensure the smooth running of MDT meetings, oversee the coordination of patient pathways, and provide cover for admin roles when needed, including taking minutes and tracking actions.

The Thoracic Division within Royal Papworth Hospital contains 6 specialities, RSSC, CCLI, PVDU, Oncology, ILD. Divisional teams work hard to ensure new members receive a warm welcome encouraging a positive and supportive culture within the department

The post holder will provide compassionate and supportive leadership to the admin teams fostering a positive and inclusive environment that empowers the team to deliver high quality patient care. The Thoracic MDT Team Leader plays a pivotal role within an essential team, managing and developing processes that ultimately are responsible in keeping patients safe.

If you want to have a real and positive impact in patients care from an indirect position, this is the job for you.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and support the Thoracic admin team, ensuring efficient workflow supporting and inspiring team members to develop in their careers.

Oversee & Lead MDT Coordinators in efficient running of MDT meetings, including accurate minute-taking and follow-up on actions.

Provide cover for admin roles as required to maintain service continuity.

Work closely with clinical teams to support the delivery of high-quality patient care ensuring patients are monitored and moved along their treatment pathways as efficiently as possible supporting the Service Managers with the Patient tracker lists (PTL) including deputising PTL meetings where required.

Support Service Managers and the wider Operations team with divisional projects aligned with the organisations strategic goals

Identify and implement improvements to administrative processes including collection and presentation of data as required.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

28 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

175-2425-2-TH1159

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Experience within an NHS Administration field at Band 4 or above.
Evidence of continued learning and development.

Desirable

Degree level/NVQ Level 5 qualification in Administration / Management or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

Ability to analyse and interpret complex data using a range of IT systems.
Previous experience of using complex medical terminology.
Knowledge and experience of RTT and PTL.
Previous experience of using Microsoft Office Applications to produce reports.
Knowledge of MDT processes.
Knowledge and understanding of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Demonstrable ability to learn to use new computing systems, packages, and languages rapidly and accurately.
Considerable experience of using a variety of IT packages and manipulating data.
The ability to work as part of a multi- disciplinary team to ensure the delivery of high-quality projects and papers.
Able to organise, prioritise and adjust own and others workload in relation to the priorities of the department over timescales.
Able to plan and implement projects across the department which may require adjustment.
The ability to update own & others practices and offer suggestions for improving services across the department.
Able to devise and implement Standard Operating Procedures in own area of practice.
Maintains the quality in own work and encourages others to do the same.

Desirable

Previous experience of working in the NHS.
Experience of undertaking project work.
Experience of leading change at a departmental level.
Understanding of the Access Policy and RTT.
Experience of line management.
Experience of producing reports from databases, including Health Roster.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Experience within an NHS Administration field at Band 4 or above.
Evidence of continued learning and development.

Desirable

Degree level/NVQ Level 5 qualification in Administration / Management or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

Ability to analyse and interpret complex data using a range of IT systems.
Previous experience of using complex medical terminology.
Knowledge and experience of RTT and PTL.
Previous experience of using Microsoft Office Applications to produce reports.
Knowledge of MDT processes.
Knowledge and understanding of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Demonstrable ability to learn to use new computing systems, packages, and languages rapidly and accurately.
Considerable experience of using a variety of IT packages and manipulating data.
The ability to work as part of a multi- disciplinary team to ensure the delivery of high-quality projects and papers.
Able to organise, prioritise and adjust own and others workload in relation to the priorities of the department over timescales.
Able to plan and implement projects across the department which may require adjustment.
The ability to update own & others practices and offer suggestions for improving services across the department.
Able to devise and implement Standard Operating Procedures in own area of practice.
Maintains the quality in own work and encourages others to do the same.

Desirable

Previous experience of working in the NHS.
Experience of undertaking project work.
Experience of leading change at a departmental level.
Understanding of the Access Policy and RTT.
Experience of line management.
Experience of producing reports from databases, including Health Roster.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.