Cancer Waiting Times (CWT) Validator/Lead Rapid Referral Administrator

Job summary

The role of the Cancer Waiting Time (CWT) Validator/Lead Rapid Referral Administrator is to support the day to day oversight of CWT validation, with a remit of undertaking detailed patient level validation to ensure accurate and robust information to support performance reporting, high quality data and to assist in managing patients through their cancer pathway.

The post-holder will be required to carry out an initial stage of validation against all 28, 31 and 62 day pathway breaches, liaising with cancer management and the division ahead of final submission.

The post holder will also be responsible for overseeing processes around the management of urgent suspected cancer referrals, acting as a point of escalation and providing cover for the service where necessary.

The post-holder will work closely with the cancer management team to regularly audit processes associated with referral management, ensuring they are fit for purpose and in line with local and national guidance.

Main duties of the job

Cancer Waiting Times Validation

• To carry out first-stage validation of CWT breaches, including 28, 31 and 62 day, ensuring breaches are accurate, correctly allocated and describe the rationale for the breach
• Ensure validation is carried out in advance of relevant meetings, such as Delivery Group, to support accurate discussion
• Review patient pathways for data quality and completeness and feeding back with the relevant team members to support knowledge and understanding
• To support the identification, reporting and resolving of CWT data collection issues in order to achieve a high standard of quality and completeness of CWT/COSD information
• Regularly monitor CWT/PTL data, identifying and validating inaccurate and incomplete data, correcting inaccuracies and supporting operational staff in this process

Urgent Suspected Cancer (USC) Referral management

• Support and oversee the Rapid Referral Office in the processing of USC referrals in line with policy guidelines, ensuring that site-specific protocol is followed at all times
• To provide cross-cover for the Rapid Referral Office where necessary, ensuring continuation of service at all times including fielding and answering emails, liaising with patients and at time dealing with graphic triage photographs
• Liaise with various teams, including secondary care clinicians and GPs, to ensure patient pathways are as timely as possible, highlight bottlenecks and issues to the cancer management team as necessary

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk