Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 321-NOTSS-6296883-B4
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Children's Hospital - John Radcliffe
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
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Validation Officer
NHS AfC: Band 4
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
The 18 week pathway requires the NHS to measure the total period waited by each patient (from referral to treatment) and to manage each patient’s journey from referral to treatment in a timely and efficient manner. Providing accurate information on how long pathways are is essential; improvements to services rely on information being reliable and being provided as close to real-time as possible, and reports to the Department of Health are produced and published so that patients can see how long they will wait at each Trust.
The role of the Validation Officer is to ensure that the information, at patient level, is accurately recorded before being reported to the Department of Health by validating the information held on our electronic systems.
In addition to ensure that all paediatric patients receive follow up appointments in line with the recommendations of the clinical team. The post holder is required to check the records of any patient on the system who has not been marked as discharged, but that doesn’t have a follow up appointment booked. Close liaison with colleagues to ensure that appropriate appointments are booked in a timely manner.
Main duties of the job
- To liaise with Deputy/Operational Service Managers, Elective Access Managers, Elective Access Teams, Information Team, Patient Contact Centre, Outpatient Reception, Nursing staff, Ward Staff, medical secretaries and clinicians to ensure that elective access standards are being actively monitored and managed, and that elective access pathways run as smoothly as possible.
- To use Trust computer systems and Millennium to ensure patients are discharged on correct RTT status
- Use patient notes, existing databases, Cerner Millennium, and CRIS to formulate patient pathway data on individual patients
- To source, collect and validate accurate RTT data in accordance with agreed practices and standards
- Support Waiting List & Outpatient Booking teams within the Directorate to ensure that the information entered onto Millennium is of the highest quality and validity
- To input the collected data into Cerner Millennium or other Trust databases in a timely and accurate manner
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assist the Directorate in ensuring RTT (referral to treatment) data reported to the Department of Health for the Trust is accurate.
- To provide an effective, elective care support service for the Trust across 4 sites, incorporating 18 week referral to treatment.
- To support the work of the Patient Pathway Manager, the broad objective is to improve the efficiency of patient care.
- To ensure that no paediatric patient is ‘lost to follow up’ and that all patients receive the follow up care they require in a timely manner.
Please, see attached JD and PS for more info.
Person specification
Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven experience within an administrative role
- Good standard of Education with a minimum of 5 ‘C’ grade GCSE’s (inc English Language and Maths)
- Previous experience within a Waiting list role or Elective Access role
- Knowledge of RTT 18 week pathways
- Strong Computer Skills
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of team working
- Medical Terminology
- EPR trained (Training available)
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Selina Anderson
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 226339
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