Urgent & Emergency Care Data Coordinator
Job summary
The Urgent and Emergency Care team are looking to recruit a highly motivated, reliable, and enthusiastic individual who will support the validation and coordination of Urgent and Emergency Care data reporting. The role will involve producing accurate and timely reports, such as the Emergency Department breach validation, Ambulance Handover times, and length of stay incident reporting.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead, Assistant Service Manager, Consultants and Matron to provide sufficient support to ensure a seamless service.
***This advert may close early, subject to high application numbers***
Main duties of the job
- To lead on the validation and coordination of specific reports, including but not limited to, the daily breach reporting and ambulance handover times.
- Work collaboratively with team members, such as the wider consultant team, who provide input to the breach validation report.
- Use initiative and work independently to ensure the timely validation of breach reporting, ensuring a timely validated position is sent back to the information team and circulated to senior management.
- Take corrective and proactive action to reduce and minimise data quality issues and highlight documentation training requirements or staff
- Lead on the daily ambulance breach validation and validate the monthly ambulance breach position report.
- Understand 12-hour length of stay metrics and when this triggers an incident report.
- Lead on incident reporting for 12-hour length of stay, linking in with the Assistant Service Manager of Urgent and Emergency Care where required.
- Ensure that daily review, validation and reconciliation of data quality reports is undertaken.
- Complete the submission for daily national sit reps, ensuring timely submission of data.
- Support all Urgent and Emergency Care data requirements and validation when they may arise.
About us
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.
The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
- Diploma level education or Education to A level
- Relevant experience of a variety of adminstrative duties
- Previous experience in an Emergency Department
Skills / Abilities
- Excellent written and interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with a range of multidisciplinary staff
- Ability to work under minimal supervision
- Ability to work using own initiative
- Effective time management skills
- Demonstrable experience of data collection, presentation, and handling of data quality issues
- Excellent IT skills including Outlook, Word, and Excel
- Willingness and ability to learn
- Prioritise workload, multitask and work to tight deadlines under pressure
- Be familiar and know the process of how to create a DATIX
Experience
- Previous NHS experience
- Experience of data input and administration
- Proven record of producing high quality reports and representing data clearly
- Previous experience in Emergency Department
Knowledge
- Knowledge of confidentiality and data protection principles
- Knowledge of using computerised information systems
- Knowledge of NHS systems such as EPR
- Understanding of the 4-hour performance metric in the Emergency Department
- Knowledge of patient management databases
Trust Values, Equal Opportunities and Other Requirements
- Commitment and adherence to the Equality Act
- Understanding and demonstrating what the trust values represent
- Flexible approach to work
- Productive working and ability to finish tasks
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Homerton Row
London
E9 6SR
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.homerton.nhs.uk/