Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 15 hours per week (Thursday and Friday)
- Job ref
- 275-2504PC-RHEU
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Pathway Co-ordinator - Rheumatology
Band 4
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Pathway Co-ordinator - Rheumatology
Division: Medicine & Emergency Care
Care Group: Frailty (Rheumatology Pathway Co-ordinator)
Band: 4
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for a Pathway Co-ordinator who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
In conjunction with the administration team ensure that all patients for the specialty are added to the relevant waiting list working within the specified timescales and guidelines.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will coordinate the administrative pathway of patients to ensure that waiting time targets are not breached.
The post-holder is also to be involved in service improvement to streamline the patient journey and ensure that the trust delivers a quality service and gold standard patient care.
The role will involve working with a range of staff across the entire organisation.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work flexibly are essential.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- General education to GCSE Level
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent computer literacy, ability to use MSWord and Excel
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills – written and verbal
- Ability to work on own initiative and to work within a team
- Has the ability to adapt to challenging and changing situations/demands
Values Based Question
Essential criteria
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerrie Ford
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 965418
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