Rtt Validator Cardiology

**Job overview**:
The main focus of the Pathway Facilitator role will be to track patients across their 18 week pathway, ensuring the patients and carer experience is central to every stage of the patient journey, and ensuring potential breaches of RTT (referral to treatment) waiting times targets are avoided or escalated to the relevant manager.

The post holder will proactively manage and track the progress of all referrals to ensure each stage of the pathway is fully planned and booked, whilst also working with colleagues throughout the Trust to ensure waiting time targets are achieved.

They will be required to assist in the data quality and validation, ensuring all patients have recorded pathway start dates, and support the management team to identify areas that require pathway improvements. Carry out any other tasks as required, commensurate with the grade of the post.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Track patients on 18-week pathways from referral to consultation, diagnostics, diagnosis and treatment ensuring there are no delays and the 18-week target is achieved.
- The facilitator will be required to communicate complex sensitive information/situations relating to patient pathways to a wide range of health professionals and use own initiative to seek professional advice as needed and autonomously act upon that information. This will include the ability to negotiate with a wide range of departments.
- To communicate regularly with managers and clinical teams to ensure that information requirements are met.
- Respond to any barriers identified in patients’ pathways and liaise effectively with medical and management colleagues regarding these.
- Maintain effective communication and act as a point of contact for colleagues within the division for 18-week pathways.
- Attend and participate in staff meetings giving accurate information of current 18-week performance position.
- Data Quality checks / reports / audits as required.
- Monitor and validate any patient lists as required.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to **make a difference** and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - **care**, **appreciate** and **inspire** - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- NVQ 3 or Experience at equivalent level. RSA level 2 or 3

**Desirable criteria**:

- Medical Terminology

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of working in a very busy office/role
- Understanding of 18 week pathway rules and guidelines
- Recent administration experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Recent experience of working in a health care setting

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to work accurately and pay attention to detail
- IT literate
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good organisational skills and time management skills

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- A working knowledge of hospital administration and booking systems

**Desirable criteria**:

- Working knowledge of trusts current information technology packages.

**Employer certification / accreditation badges**: