18 Week Referral to Treatment (RTT) Data Validation Officer

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Validation Team as a 18 Week RTT Validation Officer.

The post holder will join a team responsible for the validation of patient records against last clinic letter and clinical systems to ensure the patient is accurately recorded on the Trust Patient Administration System (PAS) or where the relevant information is not available, to note this on the patient record for further investigation.

Full training will be provided and supporting Standard Operating Procedures will be made available. The purpose of the Validation team is to improve RTT pathways and ensure that patient pathways are accurate and are visible to divisions for chronological booking.

The post holder will also be expected to work within the validation team potentially supporting other data quality projects as and when necessary, with a view to actively reduce patients waiting times and improving data quality across the Trust to improve patient flow.

The successful candidate must be able to work on their own initiative, manage own workload once set, meet Trust and Government targets as instructed, ideally will have previous NHS/hospital experience.

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Judith Shervington Judith.shervington@nhs.net or Luke Kelsall l.kelsall@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

To become an expert in 18 week rules and guidance and become an expert in the Trusts Access Policy.

Undertake extensive validation of data derived from medical records and Trust systems to ensure primary source items of dataset are accurate.

To acquire and maintain knowledge and skills in the interpretation of relevant medical terminology

To identify and action data quality issues as appropriate

Identify and amend inaccuracies on the PAS system

To validate and enter 18 week RTT data accurately and efficiently onto the computerised information system (PAS) for the monitoring of patients pathways and for the collection of statistics

To analyse and make informed decisions regarding patient pathways from viewing electronic clinical notes

To respond and update all enquires sent to the Validation Queries mailbox

To attend any meetings and training courses as relevant to the post

To collect additional data on an ad-hoc basis when required by the Validation Manager/Team Leader.

To support the RTT performance team in all aspects of monitoring the 18 Week Target to sustain the criteria necessary for the Department of Health requirements

To record accurately the reasons for patient breaches through documentation and submission to the performance team managers

To develop and maintain effective working relationships with other staff in the departments and the Trust

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.