Elective Admissions Coordinator

Job overview

This is a great time to join The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Elective Admissions Coordinator

The post-holder will be responsible for monitoring/auditing trust data received from Information Department and interrogating Wait list tables in PAS to ensure no patients breach the national Access, Booking and Choice targets of 100%, working in line with the Trust Patient Access  policy. To ensure synchrony between outpatient waiting list and inpatient waiting list to enable tracking of patient pathway target times for national 18 week pathway. This will require extensive joint working with colleagues across the THH Trust.

Lead responsibility for daily liaison with Consultant Surgeons, Consultant Anaesthetists and named Theatre Co-ordinators, across sites to ensure elective inpatient diaries are consistently booked with maximum utilisation and special/individual equipment for theatres is ordered in a  timely fashion to ensure no patient cancellations are received due to lack of equipment on day and national targets are met.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be responsible for scheduling patients for surgery with agreed dates ensuring that activity and performance targets for the Trust are met in line with national HCC targets to ensure that no patient breaches national standards.

The post-holder will be responsible for creating and maintaining the daily bed list, both paper-based and electronically.

The post-holder will liaise daily with specific Ward Managers, Discharge Co-ordinators and Site Practitioners to ensure a smooth seamless pathway for elective inpatients.

The post-holder will be responsible for providing inpatient booking data information in compliance to national initiatives and to act as the first point of contact for queries from clinicians / staff and patients.

Regular monitoring of inpatient pre-operative clinics, review of clinic rules and profiles to make recommendations to enable regional targets can be met in a timely fashion.

Provide regular performance monitoring reports on patient pathway progress to the Elective Inpatient Manager for dissemination to weekly Waiting List Meeting and GM’s.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Please note that vacancy may close early due to the amount of application we receive.