RTT Validator and PIFU Support Officer

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a fixed-term Band 4 RTT Validation and PIFU Support Officer in Cardiology Services until 31 March 2027. The post holder will validate and manage RTT and DM01 patient pathways, ensuring data accuracy and compliance with national standards.

They will analyse and interpret pathway information, track pathways, identify delays and data quality issues, and take action to resolve concerns in collaboration with clinical and operational teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and interpret patient pathway information, proactively track pathways, identify delays, risks and data quality issues, and escalate concerns to clinical and operational teams.
• Provide administrative support to Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU) processes and ensure patients are recorded, monitored and able to access services.
• Prioritize workload and support delivery of access targets while working with clinical and operational teams to ensure timely progression through pathways.

Job description

This is a fixed-term Band 4 RTT Validation and PIFU Support Officer role within Cardiology Services until 31st March 2027. The primary focus of the role is the validation and management of RTT and DM01 patient pathways, ensuring data accuracy and compliance with national access standards.

Post holder responsible for analysing and interpreting patient pathway information, proactively tracking pathways, identifying delays, risks and data quality issues, and taking appropriate action to resolve or escalated concerns to clinical and operational teams.

The post holder will work independently to prioritise workload and support delivery of access targets, while working collaboratively with clinical and operational teams to ensure patients progress through their pathways safely and in a timely manner., In addition, the post holder will provide administrative support to Patient Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU) processes, representing approximately 10% of the role, ensuring patients are accurately recorded, monitored and able to access services when required.

The role requires proactive tracking of patient pathways across diagnostic and treatment stages. The post holder will identify delays, risks and potential breaches, prioritising pathways based on urgency and impact, and taking appropriate action to resolve issues or escalated concerns to clinical and operational teams.

The NCI Coordinator role will be based at the Royal Papworth Hospital (Cambridge Biomedical Campus).

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignnment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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