MDT Navigator

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join the MDT Navigator Team.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring patients referred to The Royal Marsden receive their treatment within the guidelines of the National Waiting Time targets. The post holder will make sure that patients are seen promptly following referral and treated within the appropriate timescale. This includes monitoring patients referred to other Trusts in the Network and influencing their patient pathway, via the local MDT. The post holder will also be responsible for administrative support and organisation of site-specific MDT meetings.

Please submit your application as early as possible we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications due to high application numbers.

As we often have many applicants for jobs we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are short-listed for interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been short-listed for interview on this occasion.

All applicants will be contacted by email via NHS jobs. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow NHS jobs emails.

Main duties of the job

1.1 The postholder has responsibility for ensuring the Trust has appropriate standards, systems, processes and training in place to ensure highly quality, complete and accurate data is available to meet all analytical, research and corporate needs of the Trust.

1.2 This involves clearly establishing required data entry and classification standards and setting strategies across the organisation and to ensure that those standards can be met and sustained within available resources in the Trust.

1.3 The postholder has responsibility for designing and embedding a data quality framework to ensure appropriate monitoring and management of Trust data collection, transformation and processing against these standards. They will regularly monitor data quality and provide interpretation and summarisation of any identified issues or concerns to stakeholders, and data owners.

About us

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.