Validation Officer | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join our friendly work from home validation team.

· The post holder will work as part of a team validating the patient pathway for patients on an outpatient appointment waiting list. The focus of this role will be to improve data quality to ensure that the patient pathway is accurate and delays to planned care minimised. After an initial training period the post holder will be expected to work from home.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Interrogation of multiple clinical system programs (EPR, EDMS, PASweb) and using information provided on the system to make sure that discrepancies in a patient's pathway are corrected.

· Investigate and take the appropriate action where pathways are incomplete to support timely patient care, as directed by the team supervisor or team leader.

· To assist in the creation of weekly reports ensuring any errors recorded on the patient pathway system are amended as directed by the team leader.

· To provide patient level detail where clinical assessment is required.

· Alert team leader/supervisor to any patients where appointment delay may be a cause for clinical concern.

· To participate fully in team meetings and suggest and implement improvements to ways of working within own area.

· To develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and other staff groups within the Trust and external organisations, ensuring that a professional, efficient and courteous service is provided.

· To assist the Team Leader/ Supervisor with the training of new staff members as part of their Induction Programme, and to shadow and mentor new starters during their training period.

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