General Surgery - Patient Pathway Coordinator

Job summary

The Patient Pathway Co-ordinator is responsible for the operational delivery of their Specialties inpatient admissions service

Main duties of the job

The General Surgery department are looking for two highly motivated, professional and competent patient pathway co-ordinators to work within the Directorate at St Georges Hospital. The post will be supporting a team of highly skilled General Surgery Surgery consultants focused on outpatient support and improvement.

The role will involve providing oversight and support to the smooth running of general surgery outpatients. The post holders will also be involved in the validation of the PTL, ensuring pathway management is in line with the Trust's Access Policy. Patients need to be robustly tracked through the appropriate pathway and ensure that all the relevant data is accurately recorded, reported and analysed in a timely manner in order to meet national and internal targets.

We are looking for two candidates who have a good secondary education, with good attention to detail and committed to excellent patient service. It is essential that the post holders have a good understanding of national standards in relation to 18 weeks 'referral to treatment' pathways. The successful candidates will also need to possess excellent Information Technology skills, with the ability to use several computer packages. The post requires the individuals to have had experience in an NHS administration setting, with good communication skills as the post holders will be dealing with a wide ranging audience and sensitive issues.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.