Progress Chaser band 4

Transformation Unit; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

The Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for an Emergency Department Progress Chaser (Band 4). You will monitor patient flows in the ED, chase outstanding investigations, and liaise with clinical and operational teams to reduce delays, contributing to the delivery of the 4-hour standard.

You will work across ED activities, using electronic systems to track journeys, identify bottlenecks, and escalate delays when needed, ensuring timely care and admission or

Qualifications

• Diploma level qualification or equivalent in relevant field/discipline.
• GCSE English and Mathematics or equivalent.
• ECDL or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continued role development.
• Willing to undertake Macmillan learning and development courses.
• Basic counselling.
• NVQ in Care or similar.

Responsibilities

• Actively monitor all patients within ED using electronic systems (e.g., Whiteboard, dashboards)
• Identify delays in patient care pathways, including diagnostics, clinical reviews, and bed allocation
• Escalate delays to the Nurse in Charge / Clinical Coordinator
• Proactively chase results including:
• Ensure results are communicated promptly to clinical teams
• Follow up outstanding requests with relevant departments
• Closely working with the Nurse in Charge/EPIC, site and bed team and admin and clerical staff

Skills

Communication skills

Initiative

Prioritisation

Flexibility

Observation skills

Work without supervision

Education

Diploma level qualification or equivalent in relevant field/discipline

GCSE English and Mathematics or equivalent

ECDL or equivalent experience

Evidence of continued role development

Willing to undertake Macmillan learning and development courses

Basic counselling

NVQ in Care or similar

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Internet

Job description

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Emergency Department Town Liverpool Salary £28,392 - £31,157 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 23/11/2026 23:59

Progress Chaser band 4

Band 4

Job overview

Be at the heart of the Emergency Department and make a real difference to patient care.

The Emergency Department Progress Chaser will support patient flow within the ED by proactively monitoring patient journeys, chasing outstanding investigations, and liaising with clinical and operational teams to reduce delays.

The post holder plays a key role in supporting the delivery of the 4-hour standard, ensuring patients receive timely care, admission, or discharge.

Main duties of the job

• Actively monitor all patients within ED using electronic systems (e.g., Whiteboard, dashboards)
• Identify delays in patient care pathways, including diagnostics, clinical reviews, and bed allocation
• Escalate delays to the Nurse in Charge / Clinical Coordinator
• Proactively chase results including:
• Ensure results are communicated promptly to clinical teams
• Follow up outstanding requests with relevant departments

Closely working with the Nurse in Charge/EPIC, site and bed team and admin and clerical staff.

Working for our organisation

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.

We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West.

We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services incardiothoracic surgery,cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Emergency Department Progress Chaser will support patient flow within the ED by proactively monitoring patient journeys, chasing outstanding investigations, and liaising with clinical and operational teams to reduce delays.

The post holder plays a key role in supporting the delivery of the 4-hour standard, ensuring patients receive timely care, admission, or discharge.

• Actively monitor all patients within ED using electronic systems (e.g., Whiteboard, dashboards)
• Identify delays in patient care pathways, including diagnostics, clinical reviews, and bed allocation
• Escalate delays to the Nurse in Charge / Clinical Coordinator
• Proactively chase results including:
• Ensure results are communicated promptly to clinical teams
• Follow up outstanding requests with relevant departments

Closely working with the Nurse in Charge/EPIC, site and bed team and admin and clerical staff

Qualifications

• Diploma level qualification or equivalent in relevant field/discipline
• GCSE English and Mathematics or equivalent
• ECDL or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continued role development
• Willing to undertake Macmillan learning and development courses.
• Basic counselling
• NVQ in Care or similar

Experience

• Relevant Health or Social Care experience
• Experience of coaching/teaching patients and carers
• Previous medical secretarial experience
• Experience co-ordinating a patient workload

  Knowledge

  • Efficient in the use of Microsoft Word for Windows, Excel, Power Point, Outlook and internet.
  • Advanced knowledge of medical terminology.
  • Understanding of person-centred care.

  Skills

  • Able to use own initiative and work without supervision.
  • Able to prioritise work and work of others.
  • Possess excellent communication skills
  • Ability to communicate both verbally and non-verbally on a daily basis with people at all levels
  • Good observation skills.
  • Good observation skills.
  • Ability to work flexibly dependant on the needs of the service
  • Tactful and diplomatic with the ability to ask sensitively about information needs.
  • Ability to retrieve information from a wide range of sources and in different formats.
  • Able to use own initiative and work without supervision

  Other

  • Must be prepared to work across different hospital sites

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  The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

  The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

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