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Job summary

Main area
Spinal Surgery
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Secondment: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
392-RNOH-842
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
STANMORE
Town
LONDON
Salary
£29,460 - £31,909 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Inpatient Pathway Scheduler

NHS AfC: Band 4

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

12 MONTHS  SECONDMENT COVER

Our busy Foot & Ankle  Scheduling Team is looking for an Inpatient Pathway Coordinator to join the team. This broad, patient centred and high profile role is integral to the operational running of the department which is currently striving to meet the challenge of additional demand across the service. The main function of the role will be to coordinate and schedule the patient’s Inpatient pathway, through diagnostics, treatment planning, treatment, and follow-up, highlighting any potential delays in the pathway and ensuring accurate data collection to support the processes, utilising the consultants theatre capacity in line with the trusts KPI targets / Actively monitoring unfit patients.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will have experience of working in the NHS. The post holder will have an increasing responsibility for the development, coordination and facilitation of the scheduling process, will ensure all patients are robustly tracked through the appropriate pathway and ensure that all the relevant data is accurately recorded, reported and analysed in a timely manner. Candidates should have excellent organisational and communications skills, be able to work under pressure whilst ensuring all deadlines are achieved.

Working for our organisation

The RNOH NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for the management of the patient pathway, from referral to treatment, through diagnostics,  treatment planning and follow-up, highlighting any potential delays in the pathway and ensuring accurate data collection to support the process

To have a sound understanding of 18 week and cancer waiting time targets, rules and procedures, and to work proactively to ensure that all targets are maintained.

To provide a weekly update to Service Manager so they are aware of any pathway delays or potential breaches of waiting times targets.

To routinely attend performance review meetings and ensure that agreed actions and outcomes are requested, documented and monitored.

To monitor and work alongside  the 6-4-2 trust policy ensuring best utilisation for the unit and trust

To be responsible for booking and sending out any relevant correspondence    to patients as required

To liaise with consultants and their teams to monitor and ensure correct case mix on theatre lists, making appropriate staff aware of any changes, including Site/Bed manager and Theatre staff using the agreed protocols / shared files.

To ensure patient cancellations are allocated new TCI dates within the specified time limits.

To review / chase / update all Active monitoring patients weekly and to escalate any potential issues that may arise

Monitor elective surgery / imaging waiting times, proactively identifying risks, and taking corrective actions to ensure relevant targets are not breached, in conjunction with the Service teams, and clinical teams.

Deal with non-clinical queries from patients, their carers, general practitioners and members of the admin & clerical team.

 

Person specification

STANDARD

Essential criteria
  • Good level of general education, grade c or above in English language and maths GCSE equivalent.
  • Experience of working within the NHS or a large organisation
  • Able to negotiate and prepare complex and accurate information
Desirable criteria
  • Sound Knowledge of 18 weeks
  • Computer literate
  • Good knowledge of the processes within a hospital setting

STANDARD

Essential criteria
  • terminology experience
  • Strong knowledge of MS Office and MS outlook
  • Prioritising unpredictable workload
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience in a health care setting
  • Able to work under pressure and meet demanding deadlines
  • Ability to use initiative

STANDARD

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work unsupervised and use own initiate
  • Experience of working within a Multidisciplinary team
  • Knowledge and understanding of Government and Local Targets
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of ICS/ Insight/ ICE/Note-on or similar systems in the NHS
  • Educated to A level standard or NVQ in customer care
  • Good knowledge of the processes within a hospital setting

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
sandra moore
Job title
service manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0203 947 0622
Additional information

Monday - Friday  08.00-16.00

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