Head of Access | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 October 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6640252/249-6640252 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new Head of Access to join our ambitious and forward-thinking team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong knowledge of RTT, clinical pathways, and best practice performance and data quality management to develop their leadership and influencing skills. The post holder will work Trust wide in collaboration with a number of teams in this highly visible role.
The successful post holder will play a crucial role in improving elective access and have responsibility for monitoring and reporting of the Trust’s RTT performance. They will work with operational teams to bring together intelligence from the validation team and improvement ideas to make changes and identify training needs. The role also includes responsibility for the Trust’s Elective Access Policy, and there will be particular focus to embed the policy into practice.
The post also plays a key role in ensuring good data quality across the Trust, with a ‘dotted line’ structure to the Associate Director of Business Intelligence. They will champion and train colleagues in how to get the most from data, ensuring data is efficiently and effectively captured processed, stored and disposed of. The successful candidate will be able to identify trends in data quality issues, understand how these impact services and performance and work with colleagues to sustainably address these.
The post holder will be joining the organisation at an exciting time and have the opportunity to be involved in high profile developments. The Head of Access is integral for the role out and use of the Care Co-ordination Solution, which forms part of the national Improving Elective Care Coordination for Patients (IECCP) Program. The post holder will need to continue to champion the tool and manage challenging conversations with key stakeholders.
The post holder will also help deliver the Trust’s ambition to better communicate and share information with patients awaiting elective care and address elective access related issues resulting in health inequalities. Further developments are also planned to the Trust’s validation tool, providing an opportunity for the post holder to transform the approach to service validation.
The ideal candidate will have experience of managing RTT pathways, be tenacious and have great attention to detail. They will have excellent communication skills and an ability to build rapport across disparate teams. They will be analytically minded and understand the importance of data quality and have a passion for improvement. In return, the successful candidate will work in an environment where all ideas are valued, success is celebrated and a culture of learning is encouraged. Their personal development will be supported to build upon their existing skills and develop in the areas of the role which may be less familiar.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.
• Service We will put our patients first.
• Teamwork We will work together.
• Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service.
Respect We will act with integrity
1. Trust wide responsibility for monitoring and reporting of RTT Performance
2. Supporting the Divisional Director – Surgery, Women and Children’s Division with improving operational delivery to achieve a strong RTT performance across all Divisions/Service Teams
3. Line management responsibility for the Trust RTT Validation Team
4. Trust wide responsibility for the design, implementation, coordination and monitoring of all Trust Access Policies, developing an innovative framework of mutually supportive activity which drives financial targets.
5. Work with stakeholders across the Trust to define and then execute the data management governance model, including data ownership and data quality standards.
6. Responsible for developing, embedding and managing a Data Strategy and Data Quality Policy across the Trust, enhancing (where required) data management procedures and processes in line with the developed Data Strategy to ensure the availability of timely, accurate and complete data.
Please find attached a full job description and person specification
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Sep 2024
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