National Major Trauma Register (NMTR) Administrator

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will contribute to the Trust’s participation in the National Major Trauma Register, (NMTR) which is currently part of the Trust’s Quality account.
The post holder will undertake a broad range of administrative and clerical tasks in support of this remit, including identifying the appropriate patient group, collecting and inputting data and provide administrative support to the NMTR clinical team.
To provide accurate collection of data for all major trauma patients, in preparation for and submission of data to NMTR.
To ensure that all NMTR eligible patient details are submitted within 40 days of discharge.
Identification, using the NMTR inclusion criteria, of patients admitted to the Trust with major trauma injuries and subsequent completion of data submissions via electronic data collection and reporting system.
To interpret and consolidate information from multiple sources to ensure a complete and accurate patient records on NMTR.
To support the clinical team to identify all relevant major trauma episodes using various systems including Emergency Department admissions, transfers, etc. and inputting details onto the database.
To examine patient records, extracting relevant information and investigating where necessary, following the patient pathway from injury to discharge.
To be aware of all aspects of the data set required and ensure completion of any missing data. Identify and resolve any discrepancies in the data, escalating system errors or queries appropriately.
To liaise with other hospitals as necessary to retrieve required information.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

• To ensure the provision of timely, accurate and reliable data on behalf of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to the National Major Trauma Register run by NHS England, with subsequent completion of data submissions via the Electronic Data Collection and Reporting (EDCR) system.

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