18 Week Pathway Validation Tracker | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £26,530 - £29,114 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7211072/361-7211072 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Pathway Validation Tracker who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Trust is committed to meeting all targets within the Referral to Treatment (RTT) patient pathway, which measures the total period waited by each patient and to manage each patient’s journey from referral to treatment in a timely and efficient manner.
If you’re up for the challenge and want to work with a dynamic and supportive team that can really help shape the future of patient care, then please apply or contact us for further information.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
The successful post holder will provide expertise and support within the RTT Validation team liaising with clinicians, general managers, service managers, service co-ordinators and clerical staff in the delivery of patient care via the Trust’s elective waiting lists.
You will be supporting the administration of the patient’s referral to treatment (RTT) pathway with advice and training and is responsible for the accuracy of information on the Trust’s Patient Tracking Lists.
You will also lead on identified issues and projects to help improve RTT data quality across the Trust.
You will also be responsible for ensuring that patient records’ have the correct clock start and stop by validating and interpreting patient pathways from first outpatient appointment through to first definitive treatment. This may involve adjusting and/or correcting patient pathways where inaccurate data entries have been input into Lorenzo.
Liaise with internal departments and external providers and to ensure that tight deadlines are met (both internal and external). Liaise closely with 18 week validators in the Trust in order to facilitate the patient pathway to ensure the timely management of patient care and that targets are met.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Jun 2025