Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology and Cardiothoracic
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-1474
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £30,279 - £33,116 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/07/2024
Employer heading
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Cardiology Waiting List Scheduler
Band 4
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join the Directorate of Women’s, Children, Cardiovascular Science within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, as Cardiology Waiting List scheduler.
The Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Service at Imperial College Healthcare Trust is one of the largest services in the UK providing Cardiology & Cardiothoracic services across two hospital sites; Hammersmith Hospital, and St Mary’s Hospital.
Areas of expertise include; scheduling surgeries and procedures for patients awaiting for Cardiology treatment.
The service has three inpatient Cardiology & Cardiothoracic providing acute, specialist and post-surgical care to patients. There are two large dedicated Cardiology & Cardiothoracic outpatient departments, a day surgery unit and diagnostic unit from which Cardiology and Cardiothoracic services are provided. The post holder will work alongside their management colleagues and the lead consultants and nurses for the subspecialties they are responsible for.
If you are…
…Ambitious who can demonstrate creative, innovative, forward thinking and have the skills to deliver change effectively whilst maintaining operational delivery;
…Able to respond to what is happening in the moment and work collaboratively with clinical colleagues to develop services;
…Adaptable and flexible in your communication and influencing style;
… The post holder will need to adhere to Trust policies, the 18 week RTT pathway, and Standard Operating Procedures.
…. Provide assurance of the accuracy and completeness of RTT patient pathways, and thus compliance with standards;
…. Able to Support administrative staff with responsibilities for recording and managing RTT pathways by providing expert knowledge of RTT rules and guidance in their application
Main duties of the job
- To provide a comprehensive and efficient Trust-wide booking service for all patients awaiting elective treatment on the Inpatient, Day-case, and Planned Waiting Lists.
- To work with stakeholder services in order to help manage their waiting lists to ensure it is clean and without historic information
- To ensure that admission requests are processed and booked in line with the Trust Access Policy. This requires both timely and accurate input of data onto the Patient Administration System (PAS) and other electronic and paper systems as required.
- To work with stakeholder services to ensure patients are treated within target treatment dates
- To recognise and correct errors in pathways on the Trust’s PAS system
- To work as part of the Inpatient scheduling team to provide the best possible customer service for patients and colleagues
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An understanding of admissions and waiting list procedures equivalent to NVQ Level 4 which may have been gained through formal study or previous work experience.
Desirable criteria
- Medical terminology
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse reports and other sources of information and make judgements based on those reports.
- Ability to plan and organise activities up to 13 weeks in advance (e.g. admission and appointment dates)
- Good keyboard and IT skills
- Ability to participate in team meetings and make suggestions as appropriate for changes to working practice and procedures based on personal experience and observation
- Able to work to deadlines.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of RTT And validating patient’s pathway
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of competence in literacy and numeracy
- Knowledge of hospital Patient Administration System (PAS)
- Experience of dealing with patient appointment and booking system
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the patient pathway
- Experience of theatre scheduling
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lubna Mahmoud
- Job title
- Speciality Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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