Children's Hospital Waiting List Co-ordinator inLeicester inLeicester PUBLISHED
FRI 10 JAN 2025
Opportunities to make a significant impact on children's health by efficiently managing waiting lists and admissions.
Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, including surgeons and consultants, fostering professional growth and teamwork.
Development of strong communication and interpersonal skills while interacting with families and medical staff.
Engagement in meaningful work that directly contributes to high-quality care and improved patient experiences.
Involvement in the implementation of national and local guidelines, ensuring adherence to healthcare standards.
An opportunity to contribute to health equality initiatives, actively helping to reduce disparities in healthcare access.
The Children's Hospital Waiting List Co-ordinator at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is responsible for the effective management and administration of elective admissions, waiting lists, and admission services related to Children's Services. Key tasks include coordinating with surgical teams to optimize theatre list utilisation, communicating with families to facilitate patient booking, and ensuring adherence to local and national guidelines regarding patient pathways and Referral to Treatment (RTT) timelines. The role requires strong communication skills and the ability to manage clinic slot availability, cancellations, and the recording of patient details as per the UHL Patient Access Policy.
In addition to managing waiting lists, the post holder will oversee necessary preparations for patient admissions, including special requirements and liaising with ward staff. The position aligns with the Trust’s strategic goals focusing on delivering high-quality care, fostering a supportive workplace, and promoting health equality while engaging with communities. The Children’s Hospital Waiting List Co-ordinator is essential in ensuring efficient service delivery while upholding the values of compassion, pride, inclusivity, and teamwork.
In addition to managing waiting lists, the post holder will oversee necessary preparations for patient admissions, including special requirements and liaising with ward staff. The position aligns with the Trust’s strategic goals focusing on delivering high-quality care, fostering a supportive workplace, and promoting health equality while engaging with communities. The Children’s Hospital Waiting List Co-ordinator is essential in ensuring efficient service delivery while upholding the values of compassion, pride, inclusivity, and teamwork.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring effective coordination and administration of the Children's elective admissions, waiting list and admission services within Children’s Services in line with national policy and locally agreed guidelines.
The day to day role will include liaising with the surgical, consultant and wider team to ensure the theatre lists are fully utilised. To make contact with the families to book patients in and manage the waiting list alongside the management team. To prospectively manage clinic slot availability to ensure maximum efficiencies within the service to agreed templates ensuring annual/study leave impact on theatre utilisation is minimised, in a timely manner. To ensure and deliver a Patient Pathway in accordance with Local and National Guidelines in relation to Referral to Treatment (RTT 18 weeks).
The post holder will need to be an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills who can acknowledge the pressure on the medical staff to ensure that the patients are admitted in a timely and efficient manner.
To implement and be responsible for setting up, maintaining and monitoring the waiting list ensuring that the suspensions, cancellations and DNA’s are recorded and dealt with according to the UHL Patient Access Policy.
To ensure full utilisation of Theatre slots available.
To ensure all Local and National Standards are applied to the Waiting List, RTT Data Quality checks and the UHL Patient Access and Data Management Policy.
To ensure patient admission details are arranged in conjunction with agreed booking procedures, and patients informed by post or telephone. To ensure any cancellations are replaced as agreed with Consultants and inform theatres and wards etc.
Daily responsibility for making pre-assessment clinic appointments ensuring the completion of the appointment outcome within 24 hours of the clinic.
To schedule theatre lists as delegated by Consultant teams.
To ensure that any special equipment/requirements (eg ITU/HDU, foreign case notes, interpreters, scans, x-rays and prosthesis), are arranged for admission.
To liaise with ward staff/managers and patients on day of admission to ensure patients are informed of bed availability or cancellation/new date of admission.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2.
We Have Four Primary Goals
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
About The University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust
www.jobsincare.com/job/jblibZ1Y further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Taylor Job title: Children's Hospital Waiting List Team Leader Email address: Telephone number:
Lisa Moore
Children's Hospital Waiting List Team Leader
Contact number:
The day to day role will include liaising with the surgical, consultant and wider team to ensure the theatre lists are fully utilised. To make contact with the families to book patients in and manage the waiting list alongside the management team. To prospectively manage clinic slot availability to ensure maximum efficiencies within the service to agreed templates ensuring annual/study leave impact on theatre utilisation is minimised, in a timely manner. To ensure and deliver a Patient Pathway in accordance with Local and National Guidelines in relation to Referral to Treatment (RTT 18 weeks).
The post holder will need to be an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills who can acknowledge the pressure on the medical staff to ensure that the patients are admitted in a timely and efficient manner.
To implement and be responsible for setting up, maintaining and monitoring the waiting list ensuring that the suspensions, cancellations and DNA’s are recorded and dealt with according to the UHL Patient Access Policy.
To ensure full utilisation of Theatre slots available.
To ensure all Local and National Standards are applied to the Waiting List, RTT Data Quality checks and the UHL Patient Access and Data Management Policy.
To ensure patient admission details are arranged in conjunction with agreed booking procedures, and patients informed by post or telephone. To ensure any cancellations are replaced as agreed with Consultants and inform theatres and wards etc.
Daily responsibility for making pre-assessment clinic appointments ensuring the completion of the appointment outcome within 24 hours of the clinic.
To schedule theatre lists as delegated by Consultant teams.
To ensure that any special equipment/requirements (eg ITU/HDU, foreign case notes, interpreters, scans, x-rays and prosthesis), are arranged for admission.
To liaise with ward staff/managers and patients on day of admission to ensure patients are informed of bed availability or cancellation/new date of admission.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2.
We Have Four Primary Goals
- high-quality care for all,
- being a great place to work,
- partnerships for impact, and
- research and education excellence
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
- we are compassionate,
- we are proud,
- we are inclusive, and
- we are one team
About The University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust
www.jobsincare.com/job/jblibZ1Y further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Taylor Job title: Children's Hospital Waiting List Team Leader Email address: Telephone number:
Lisa Moore
Children's Hospital Waiting List Team Leader
Contact number:
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