About this role
Job summary
MDT Team Leader
Department: Cancer Services
Band 5 - £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata
Hours: Full-time 37.5 hours per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working
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.
About You
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.
"We care We communicate We collaborate We contribute"
Please note that we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role
Interview date: 4 December 2026
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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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Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Team Leader, you are a core support for the MDT coordination service. You will:
- Support the team - provide advice and guidance toMDT coordinators using your system and national policy knowledge.
- Maintain service delivery: Provide operational cover for team members when needed to ensure seamless service continuity.
- Drive data quality: Contribute to routine data quality validation, national dataset uploads, and audits.
- Coordinate tertiary care: Liaise directly with Tertiary Centres to manage and track MKUH patient pathway progress.
Peer review and governance
- To assist Cancer leads with the regular review of Multidisciplinary Team Operational Policies and Procedures.
- To administratively facilitate quarterly and annual MDT meetings.
National Targets and Audits
- To support in the delivery of Cancer National Waiting times.
- To ensure delivery of national Cancer audits, COSD, staging target and any Cancer CQUINs for the year.
Data Co-ordination and Clinical Tracking Cancer Patients:
- To ensure suspected cancer patients receive prompt diagnosis, and to work with other Trust staff to bring forward appointments if necessary.
- To work with MDT coordinators ensuring the tracking systems are updated daily to indicate whether Two Week Rule patients have a benign or malignant diagnosis and correct coding is in place.
MDT Co-ordination
- To oversee the timetabling with the MDT coordinators of meetings in conjunction with the lead clinician.
- To provide cross-functional cover for all MDT team meetings when colleagues are absent.
General/Quality Issues
- To have day to day supervision, work allocations and managerial responsibilities for the MDT co-ordinators (max 4), maintaining appraisal and mandatory training data for direct reportable staff.
- To deputise the work of the Cancer Services Manager by reporting areas where peer review measures or targets are not being achieved such as the National Waiting times.
Please refer to the Job Description for further details.
Person Specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience
- Strong IT skills in relation to Microsoft packages including word/excel to NVQ level 3.
- Typing qualification or equivalent experience.
- Understanding of the importance and meaning of NHS performance targets internal and external.
- Knowledge of relevant Acts i.e. Data Protection which effect daily operations.
- Knowledge of medical terminology and Cancer pathways.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of the local Patient Access Policy
Experience
Essential
- Relevant administration / Leadership experience / working within a clinical environment.
- Demonstrate the ability to delegate tasks and supervise outputs and escalate problems
- Experience of using IT/Patient data Systems, cancer data base and cancer national data base
- Ability to accurately and efficiently input and retrieve information on a computerised system whilst adhering to complex local and national policies and guidelines.
- Working in a busy environment dealing with large numbers of the general public.
Desirable
- Experience of handling inbound and outbound telephone calls of a potentially sensitive nature.
Skills
Essential
- Experience team working and developing effective working relationships with staff at all levels.
- Ability to plan, prioritise and delegate workload, giving attention to detail.
- Evidence of working under pressure to tight deadlines and deal with difficult situations e.g. patients, public and visitors.
- Take responsibility for own actions, behaviours and achievement of work objectives and goals.
- Ability to read, interpret, analyse national guidance on cancer waiting times, cancer audits, cancer database guidance and to train and support others on same.
Desirable
- Manage and interpret data both in cancer and audit databases correctly to inform decision making.
- Experience of using eCare, EDM, Choose and book/E-referral, Winpath, PAC's, ICE, Somerset, NHS Digital
Personal and people development
Essential
- Must be able to work as an integral member of a team providing leadership support
- Stay composed with conflicting priorities.
- Ability to be flexible and use own initiative.
- Must maintain a professional approach at all times and set example to their team
- Demonstrate resilience and composure, to lead team through conflicting priorities and complex tasks
Communication
Essential
- Must have a professional attitude/appearance and be courteous at all times.
- Good all round communication skills
- Good customer service skills.
- Ability to present to, inform and challenge multi-disclinary teams, including doctors, nurses, admin and managers
Specific requirements
Essential
- Able to perform the duties of the post with reasonable aids and adaptations.
- Able to work primarily on the computer while attending to patients as necessary.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Cancer Services (Dept)
Milton Keynes
MK6 5LD
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/working-at-mkuh (Opens in a new tab)