Ed Progress Chaser

Permanent

37.5 Hours per week

£21,730 - £23,177 Per Annum

**Closing date**: 7th April 2023

**Interview date**: TBC

To provide a specialised, comprehensive and confidential patient-centred administration and pathway tracking service in accordance with Departmental, Trust and National Standards, Policies and procedures.

To act as the point of contact to be responsible for the management of and assist with the validation of the patient Accident and Emergency clinical quality indicator transit time ensuring the provision of a systematic, efficient and confidential service.

To be sufficiently skilled to understand the ED Clinical Quality Indicators, including the criteria for four hour targets and breaches, and ensure the reason for the breaches are clearly and accurately communicated and recorded.

Here at George Eliot our vision to excel at patient care takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Effective Open Communication

Excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Take responsibility for prioritisation of workload, responding to changing priorities and conflicting demands in an effective manner and develop systems to improve effectiveness of the post.

Take responsibility for ensuring the Nurse In Charge and Site Manager are aware of changing pressures within the ED and of capacity requirements.

Ensure patient pathway markers and actions are recorded on the Lorenzo.

Work collaboratively with all disciplines from all areas across the Trust, to ensure that patient emergency pathway milestones and Key Performance Indicators are met.

To be responsible for extracting patient information/date from medical records and entering detail onto the Lorenzo System.

Ensure investigations and subsequent departures from the Department are arranged effectively to meet pathway targets.

Follow protocols for escalation to Nurse In Charge, Clinician In Charge and Site Manager.