Referral to Treatment Validator

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Flexible working

Protected hours for health and well‑be

Wellbeing support

Job summary

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust seeks a RTT Validator to support across care organisations, ensuring patients are tracked from referral to treatment initiation and contributing to a smooth outpatient journey.

You will work with the RTT Team Leader and operational management to monitor pathways, flag potential breaches, and help ensure timely patient care while supporting professional development and flexible working within a values-driven team.

Responsibilities

• Tracking patients through their 18 week process to ensure timely treatment.
• Escalating potential RTT issues to line managers or operational managers.
• Highlighting pathway breaches and fast-tracking affected patients through the system.
• Working with RTT Team Leader to ensure policies and procedures address RTT pathway challenges.
• Forecasting possible problems with operational managers and identifying solutions.

Job description

As a RTT Validator you will provide support across the specialties within the Care Organisations, ensuring that patients are closely tracked and monitored from point of referral to treatment initiation, to support a smooth outpatient journey. You will liaise with staff across all levels, internal to PAA, and externally via Divisional Directorate Managers. You will work independently and as part of a team to work towards locally-agreed targets, which collectively will support the RTT national target. The role will allow you to propel your career to new heights, as you will play an important part in the patients' experience with the Care Organisations and maintain strong working relationships with senior staff members. PAA have a reputation for promoting professional and personal development and we welcome applicants who are driven by ambition and passion and want to proactively influence our patients' pathways.,

• The post holder will be supporting the delivery of the Referral to Treatment (RTT) target. Working closely the 18 Weeks Manager, Booking Team and the Operational Management teams.
• The post holder will be responsible for tracking patients through their 18 week process to ensure that they are treated in a timely fashion.
• Responsible for the escalation of any potential issues/ problems in relation to RTT weeks to their line manager or relevant operational managers. They will undertake validation of patient pathways, in relation to the admitted and non-admitted performance.
• Responsible for highlighting any potential pathway breaches and ensuring these patients are fast tracked through the system.
• To work with the RTT Team Leader to ensure that policies and procedures are in place to deal with issues that arise in relation to RTT pathways.
• In conjunction with the RTT Team Leader, work with operational managers to forecast potential problems and identify appropriate solutions to these.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package.

• a fantastic annual leave allowance
• flexible working opportunities
• protected hours for health and wellbeing activities

helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.