RTT Patient Pathway Validator

Job overview

• The post holder must understand all aspects of a patient’s pathway from referral to treatment including the following:

- Reading and understanding patient case notes

- Receipt and entry of the referral

- Booking and cancelling outpatient appointments

- Post session recording of outpatient attendances

- Adding patients to day case / inpatient waiting lists

- To Come In (TCI) offers, deferred treatment and pause periods

- Admitting, transferring and discharging patients

- RTT status code at all points of the patient pathway

- How to correct PAS entries.

• Adding / removing patients on the Patient Tracking List (PTL) and ensuring patients are booked in accordance with the Trust Elective Access Policy.
• Ensure PTL records are accurate by cross checking with a range of sources from patient letters to patient case notes.

Please see Job Description for full details

Main duties of the job

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In summary the post holder will have:

• Excellent knowledge of the 18 week rule suite and associated guidelines and presviosu NHS experience.
• Experience of clinical systems and referencing clinical documents and diagnostic results.
• The ability to actively manage the administrative processes associated with patient pathways and review the functioning and effectiveness of clinical teams.
• The ability to work effectively as part of the onsite validation team to ensure that pathways are validated and corrected.
• The ability to ensure extensive feedback on validations completed on a pathway basis and to give an audit trail of the validations fulfilled on a daily basis.
• To be able to utilise the MS Excel application as required to record validations.
• To be able to communicate well with all team members including multidisciplinary teams as well as patients and relatives as required.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.