RTT Patient Pathway Validator | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust; Stanmore; On-site; AUD 63,000 - 69,000; Full time

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Job summary

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust in Stanmore is seeking a RTT Patient Pathway Validator to ensure accurate patient pathways from referral to treatment. You will manage the PTL, validate RTT status codes, and support clinical teams by maintaining precise administrative records and PAS entries.

This permanent, full-time position offers engagement with NHS processes, cross-department collaboration, and opportunities to contribute to path improvement across the trust.

Responsibilities

• Understand all aspects of a patient’s pathway from referral to treatment, including reading case notes, receipt and entry of referrals, booking and cancelling outpatient appointments, and post-session recording of attendances.
• Add/remove patients on the PTL and ensure patients are booked in accordance with the Trust Elective Access Policy.
• Ensure PTL records are accurate by cross checking with patient letters and case notes across sources.
• Maintain RTT status codes at all points of the patient pathway and correct PAS entries when needed.
• Active management of administrative processes related to patient pathways and review of the effectiveness of clinical teams.

Job description

RTT Patient Pathway Validator | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Company: Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Salary: £33,262 - £36,027 per annum inclusive of HCAS Hours: Full-time Location: Stanmore, HA7 4LP Job type: Permanent Posting date: 7 Oct 2026 Closing date: 6 Nov 2026

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.

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/

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.

This advert closes on Thursday 15 Oct 2026

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