Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of AAA Screening Programme Manager.

The purpose of the programme is to enable the early detection of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in men aged 65 and over in order to save lives. The Programme commenced in 2013.

The administration office is based in Colchester General Office and clinic venues are located across North Essex and East Suffolk. 

You will oversee the work of the local administrators and screening staff, ensuring the smooth running of screening clinics and the collection and handling of clinical and screening data according to specified targets and national protocols.

You will be involved in a number of initiatives supporting the AAA screening programme, including quality assurance and promoting the benefits of the AAA screening. Actively participate in planning, preparing and presenting results for reports, publication and presentation for internal and external review.

If you can demonstrate a passion for and a track record in leading improvements in healthcare and would like the challenge of running this service we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Maintaining relationships with screening sites;
• Organising staff rotas;
• Arranging screening appointments for men in their 65th year and patients with AAA in the surveillance programme;
• Clean up processes at the end of the year to identify men newly registered to GPs in the area who may have missed appointments;
• Referring patients to vascular surgeons;
• Extracting data from other notes and hospital systems;
• Processing, tabulating, recording and storing data associated with screening, treatment and deaths, and producing reports;
• Monitoring fail-safe systems;
• Monitoring and reporting any serious adverse events and taking steps to ensure the safety of staff and patients;
• Authorising expenditure up to specified limits and checking budget statements; ordering office and clinical consumables;
• Overseeing archiving of data;
• Raising awareness and promoting the benefits of the programme. 

Working for our organisation

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. 

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. 

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. 

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. 

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.   

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. 

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.   

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