About this role
Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Trauma & Orthopaedics service as patient pathway coordinator with the focus on 18 Week RTT pathways.
The post holder will join the team and be responsible for the validation, investigations and processing actions for patient pathways against last clinic letter and clinical systems to ensure the patient is accurately recorded on the Trust Patient Administration System (PAS) and RTT timescales are met.
The purpose of this role is to improve RTT pathways and ensure that patient receive treatment in a time sensitive manner.
Main duties of the job
To ensure that every patient pathway is tracked to be diagnosed and treated as quickly as possible, ensuring this is achieved within relevant RTT standards.
Maintain an up-to-date record of patient tracking and escalations using the Trusts database FDP.
To escalate for patient's diagnostics and treatment appointments.
Booking outpatient appointments and bring forward when required.
To support the Team Leader and Service Manager to ensure all administrative process are delivered to a high standard.
About us
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Job description Job responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Assessment Essential
Working knowledge of Cerner EPR system
Desirable
Previously worked in Trauma & Orthopaedics service
Assessment Essential
Previous experience of working as a PPC
Desirable
Working knowledge of FDP
Assessment Essential
Working knowledge of RTT pathways
Desirable
Previous validation experience
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.
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Employer details Employer name London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Address Ealing Hospital
Uxbridge Road
Southall
UB1 3HW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lnwh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)