Patient Pathway Coordinator - Maternity cover

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Outpatient Pathway
• Administer all new referrals received via the E referral service, ensuring all are electronically triaged by the appropriate clinical staff member and action as required.
• Process and log all non-Choose and Book referrals on EPR, including registering new patients in addition to updating existing patient details.
• Book new and follow-up outpatient and diagnostic appointments, ensuring that capacity is proactively and efficiently used. This includes booking patients into the correct clinic to ensure that they are seen by the most appropriate clinician.
• Reschedule outpatient appointments as a result of patients calling the service, in line with the 18-week RTT / cancer / screening targets and agreed local processes in respect to patient cancellations.
• Actively review patient DNAs, liaising with the appropriate clinical staff and reschedule patient appointments in line with agreed local processes.
• As required, complete clinic cancellation forms and ensure appropriately authorised (minimum 6 weeks' notice required) before processing the clinic cancellation on EPR and rescheduling of patient appointments.
• Adding additional clinic capacity on EPR as directed by management, to include the use of adding appointment slots on EPR that can be booked via Choose and Book.
• To be responsible for actively managing the OP PTL and Incomplete lists.

Administration
• Provide primary administrative support to the consultants and clinicans, including booking follow up appointments, correspondence support and other administrative duties as required.
• With the support of the Assistant Patient Pathway Coordinators, ensure the efficient administration of the service.
• Ensure appropriate follow up appointments are booked and escalate to Team Leader and consultant if patient cannot be booked within required time scales..
• Use of the digital transcription system to produce clinical correspondence to inform referrers, patients, and other relevant parties of patient pathway progress. In doing so, produce correspondence that is of high quality and conforms to the national target of 7 days from the point of clinical delivery / decision.
• Open and prioritise incoming post, ensuring supporting information is available when appropriate and taking responsibility for taking action on urgent items in the absence of the clinician / Patient Pathway Coordinator.
• Respond to telephone queries coming into the department, taking clear messages to pass to relevant staff to ensure requests are actioned promptly.
• Using Scan IT ensure that electronic health records filing is maintained at an extremely high standard, with timely scanning of paper records on to EPR as required.
• Ensure accurate filing of paper notes and records is maintained as required.
• Follow the tracking procedure for the movement of all patient notes (Case Note Tracking).
• On an as and when required basis, update patient details on EPR to include ensuring patients that require discharge are processed accordingly.
• Actively use and manage the work lists in Revenue Cycle to manage Patients Missing Follow Up and Deferred patient lists
• Act as the first point of contact for patients coming into the department.
• Ensure there is adequate cover on the reception desks and ward as required
• If required, admit and discharge patients to the ward.
• Act upon queries from referrers, patients, and other relevant parties in liaison with clinical staff. Take relevant action to provide reassurance and support to patients and their families by finding appropriate solutions to problems, which requires the ability to understand and explain basic medical procedures and terminology.
• Book interpreters for patients prior to appointments and admissions as and when required.
• Book transport for patients who require it, in line with local processes and CCG guidelines.
• Actively review patient DNAs, liaising with the appropriate clinical staff and reschedule patient appointments in line with agreed local processes.
• Adding additional list capacity on EPR as directed by management.
• Book patients as required.

Pathway Tracking
• To have an excellent working knowledge of the 18 weeks referral to treatment (RTT) rules / Cancer waiting targets / Screening wait times, as required for the job, and use them in conjunction with the OUH Elective Access Policy to proactively manage all patient pathways.
• Undertake validation of the 18 week RTT PTLs and contribute to the validation of the cancer PTL where appropriate. Investigate and take appropriate action where pathways are incomplete to ensure that patients are treated in clinical priority and breach date order and that reporting on performance and waiting times is robust.
• Escalate pathway issues if required to the Patient Pathway Team Leader and Patient Pathway Manager.
• Book in clinical priority and breach date order, whilst monitoring the 18 week / Cancer PTLs or screening list to ensure any late additions are identified and processed appropriately. In doing so, take the necessary steps to avoid target breaches and resolve any issues i.e. 28 day theatre cancellations.
• Recognise when patients are on cancer care pathways and proactively link with the MDT Coordinator and MDT Tracker to ensure these patients are actively managed through their diagnosis and treatment.
• Ensure Trust systems are updated with patient pathway status information and that data quality is maintained.
• Liaise with internal and external colleagues to share patient pathway information and diagnostic information, and expedite patient journeys where needed.
• Ensure inter-provider transfers are timely and that the appropriate paperwork has been completed and sent or received.
• Liaise with clinical coders to ensure patient notes are available so that all patient episodes are coded accurately and promptly.
• Co-ordinate appointments and procedures at others hospitals and organisations, where the pathway requires input from these.
• Ensure accurate information is added to EPR / Infoflex and other internal and external IT systems and databases, as required.
• Liaise with external commissioners if required

Patient Pathway
• Actively review patient DNAs, liaising with the appropriate clinical staff and reschedule patient appointments in line with agreed local processes.
• Raising clinic capacity issue to management via the Patient Pathway Team Leader and Patient Pathway Manager.
• Adding additional list capacity on EPR as directed by management.
• Book patients as required.