We have an exciting opportunity to join the Urology, Trauma & Orthopaedics CBUWaiting List Team working as a Trust Wide Waiting List Clerk - we have one full time vacancy being advertised
Your role will entail managing the day to day running of the waiting lists, ensuring Orthopaedics theatre lists are booked to the required parameters where you will work closely with the business units, Theatre schedulers and along with others, to ensure the patients journey during their treatment is a smooth as possible.
Main duties of the job
To ensure that all patients are placed on the waiting list in a timely way and that particular attention is given to urgency and procedure involved, ensuring patients are allocated appropriate clinical information and admission details. Also ensuring all procedures are coded correctly as per OPCS classification.
Manage and maintain waiting lists, liaising with consultants ensuring patients when selected, have adequate notice for pre-operative assessment and admission. Patients are prioritised according to Patient Treatment Lists, patients who have long waits following periods of suspension, target cancer pathway times and those Cancelled On The Day of operation.
Ensure that patients who DNA and those who have been suspended are regularly validated thereby ensuring patients in need of surgery remain on the active waiting list and those for whom surgery is not necessary are removed and all relevant parties are informed.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).