Paediatric Patient Pathway Coordinator | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £26,530 - £29,114 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2025 |
| Location: | Walsall, WS2 9PS |
| Company: | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7167244/407-WCCSS-7167244 |
Summary
The Patient Pathway Coordinator will work within the Paediatrics Care Group within the Women’s & Children’s and Clinical Support Services Division to facilitate the smooth running of the patient journey by ensuring thatcoordinated and streamlined processes revolve around the patient and their individual needs.
The post holder will work closely with the admin and clinical teams ensuring that patients are proactively managed and monitored in order to support the delivery of the Trust’s access targets/Referral to Treatment (RTT) and the diagnostic DM01 standards in line with nationally and locally defined targets.
1. Take responsibility for validating all 18 week/urgent cancer patients’ pathways for a designated patient cohort and proactively manage any issues raised through validation.
2. Take responsibility for validating all diagnostic examinations within Clinical Measurement Unit (CMU) in accordance to the 6 week diagnostic standards.
3. Ensure that all appointments, investigations, treatments, tests, Cancer Waiting Times and 6 week diagnostic targets are scheduled in order to meet 18 week RTT target. Accurately record on all appropriate electronic systems.
4. Ensure that management and clinical staff are aware of key dates in the patient pathway, that they are aware of potential breaches of key milestones (as appropriate).
5. Work as a team and provide where requested administrative support to clinical teams including the management of clinician timetables. Ensure consultants’ timetables, outpatient clinics and operating/treatment sessions are fully and appropriately utilised.
6. Liaise with patient or parent/carers of patients to arrange clinic appointments (when required).
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities.
A new Urgent Emergency Care Centre was opened in March 2023. The two-storey development has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity and has provided almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.
1. Take responsibility for validating all 18 week/urgent cancer patients’ pathways for a designated patient cohort and proactively manage any issues raised through validation.
2. Take responsibility for validating all diagnostic examinations within Clinical Measurement Unit (CMU) in accordance to the 6 week diagnostic standards.
3. Ensure that all appointments, investigations, treatments, tests, Cancer Waiting Times and 6 week diagnostic targets are scheduled in order to meet 18 week RTT target. Accurately record on all appropriate electronic systems.
4. Ensure that management and clinical staff are aware of key dates in the patient pathway, that they are aware of potential breaches of key milestones (as appropriate).
5. Work as a team and provide where requested administrative support to clinical teams including the management of clinician timetables. Ensure consultants’ timetables, outpatient clinics and operating/treatment sessions are fully and appropriately utilised.
6. Liaise with patient or parent/carers of patients to arrange clinic appointments (when required)
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This advert closes on Friday 23 May 2025