IRIS Coordinator

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a IRIS Co Ordinator to join the Team at Frimley Park Hospital.
The post holder requires excellent organisational and communication skills, working in partnership with professional staff in other agencies and service providers.
Needs to be highly proficient in IT skills, including, Word, Excel and has experience of working with EPIC and to have the ability to work independently, flexibly, be adaptable to change and also work as part of the wider multidisciplinary team.
Day to Day Co Ordination of the IRIS office at Frimley Park Hospital
Partnership working with health and social care partners both within the acute hospital and community settings, particularly in relation to patient discharges
Triaging referrals
Administrative duties, including meetings, email and diary management
Data Entry
Work as part of a rota covering 8am -6pm 7 days a week
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m 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.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
To facilitate the most appropriate discharge pathway for patients leaving hospital
To support cross organisation working and information sharing
To act as a single point of access to community services for patients who have been admitted and/or are needing support on discharge
To share information and signpost people to the most appropriate service
To co-ordinate the day to day running of IRIS at Frimley Park Hospital
To facilitate appropriate information sharing in relation to supporting patient discharges
To triage referrals received in IRIS, forwarding them to the correct service for the patient’s discharge
To use the EPIC system to track patients and pull report

Please refer the Job description for details