GP Medical Secretary jobs in Amersham

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Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term (24 hr) p/t MDT Coordinator, Band 5 within the Cancer Services Team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the site-specific Cancer MDT Coordinators, to enable the Trust to deliver the new National Timed Diagnostics Pathways. This will involve validation of the key cancer returns (CWT & COSD), helping to cover the different site specific MDT roles (tracking patients, supporting and attending meetings, collecting data).

The role requires liaison with a number of departments as well as Primary Care Colleagues and other Trusts to ensure prompt patient appointments, tests and diagnostics are provided. The role will involve coordinating and recording the Cancer MDT meetings once a week and updating the tracker on a daily basis to ensure patients pathways are facilitated.

We are looking for an exceptionally organised individual with a passion for cancer services, who is able to work proactively and independently to ensure targets are met. Excellent communication skills, and the ability to build and maintain a variety of working relationships, are essential. Proficient computer skills are required as you will need to input and collate data across a number of computer systems.

You will need to be able to work well under pressure and be comfortable presenting and collating information from senior management and clinicians. Experience of working in a similar role in cancer services would be advantageous.

Main duties of the job

Main duties will include:

• Data Collection and validation of key cancer information.
• Tracking patients, supporting and attending MDT meetings.

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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.