The perioperative care coordinator is an exciting, new, evolving role. This is a result of new NHS England best practice guidelines for pre-screening and optimisation of perioperative patients. Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) recommends that NHS organisations should establish Perioperative Care Co-ordination teams, to introduce early preoperative screening, risk stratification and provide an opportunity to optimise patients’ health prior to surgery.
The post holder will support the Trust in adhering to national guidance and develop learning for Cheshire & Merseyside ICB.
This post will include using digital tools, such as C2Ai and Graphnet, to identify patients requiring optimisation ahead of planned surgical intervention as well as those who may be suitable for triage to a high-volume, low complexity site.
The post will work collaboratively with the wider clinical operational and clinical teams to contact patients to gather information, signpost and promote engagement to appropriate services. The post will be embedded within medical, surgical and pre-operative assessment teams.
The successful applicant will have good communication skills and be able to build rapport and relationships with a diverse population to encourage and support behaviour change.
Training will be provided around personalised care, use of healthcare specific IT systems and on brief intervention conversations.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues 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 for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis 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 Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
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•Contacting all patients newly listed for surgical procedure to ask or ensure they have completed a pre-screening questionnaire, and where required support them to complete the form.
•Collate information at the point of referral from primary care and in the pre-screening questionnaire.
•Use the above information and digital intelligence to support the initial triage of those likely to require optimisation.
•Contact patients to inform them of outcome of pre-screening triage, and where appropriate and under the direction of a qualified health professional, use approved materials to provide them with universal advice about pre-operative preparation, including diet, exercise/activity and healthy living.
•Under the guidance of a registered health professional, arrange appropriate follow up appointments for higher risk patients.
•Use this knowledge to refer patients to their most appropriate local services. Examples will include activity classes, weight loss and psychological support.
•Refer patients to health promotion services, for example smoking cessation, alcohol reduction and diabetes control.
•Where relevant, encouraging patients to find out if their GP has a social prescribing link worker and/or health coach, and how they can refer themselves.
•Quality assure surgical prioritisation coding in line with Royal College guidelines and where necessary, escalate and stream cohorts of patients to the relevant clinicians and services. For example, alerting teams to high-risk pulmonary patients who are listed for surgery.
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Mar 2025