Trauma coordinator

Job Overview

To co-ordinate the in-patient, and pending inpatient, management of trauma orthopaedics cases in order to improve the quality of the patient’s journey and patient outcomes through best practice.

The trauma administrator will achieve this by working alongside clinical experts. Monitor and audit orthopaedics services in order to identify appropriate systems for sustainable improvement. Work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To ensure theatre lists are managed well while liaising with the wider MDT.

Collect national Data for fractured Neck of Femur patient pathways, and discuss findings with the trauma nurse practitioner, highlighting key areas for improvement.

Main duties of the job
• Liaise with and support members of the multi-disciplinary teams Maintain accurate up to date records
• Develop and maintain a link between hospital and other trusts
• Lead the on-call trauma orthopaedic ward rounds
• Coordinate a management plan for each individual patient admitted and document with the on-call consultant, analyse the daily theatre list
• Collect data for the fractured Neck of Femur database
• Arrange follow-up appointments

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
• NVQ level 5 or equivalent qualification (e.g. HND, Foundation degree) OR equivalent level of experience in a similar post.

Desirable criteria
• Previous NHS experience

Experience

Essential criteria
• Relevant experience within the NHS in a speciality or acute setting

Desirable criteria
• Experience in coordinating or management role

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
• Excellent computer literacy, including presentation skills

Desirable criteria
• Audit and research involvement (i.e. data collection

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the +00,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £4+m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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