Job overview

We are looking for an organised, enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Breast Services team as a Data Coordinator .

This role provides an exciting opportunity to support coordinate, validating and maintaining accurate patient pathway data across Breast Services, with a particular focus on Cancer Pathways and the Risk-Reducing Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).

You will be responsible for coordinate and monitor patient pathways from urgent referral through diagnosis, treatment and follow-up and Validating Cancer Waiting Time (CWT) data, ensuring pathway milestones are accurately recorded and maintained.

You are required to liaise with clinical and administrative teams to resolve pathway queries and ensure timely progression of patients and Support the accurate submission of cancer pathway data for national reporting.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a busy healthcare environment and wants to make a positive contribution to patient care and service delivery within the NHS.

Main duties of the job

The Data Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, validating and maintaining accurate patient pathway data across Breast Services, with a particular focus on Cancer Pathways and the Risk-Reducing Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). 

The post holder will ensure that patient information is complete, accurate and recorded in line with national standards, supporting timely patient care, Cancer Waiting Time (CWT) reporting, multidisciplinary working and service performance. Working closely with clinicians, Cancer Services, breast screening, symptomatic services, genetics, pathology, 
radiology and administrative colleagues, the post holder will contribute to high standards of data quality and effective pathway management. 

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. 

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.