TARN - Audit Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen as a permanent Band 4 TARN coordinator, within the Emergency Department working closely with a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) through the patients Trauma Pathway. This MDT also works closely with the South West Surrey Trauma Network. You will work closely with a wide variety of staff to help the trauma office and network in its aim to provide the very best care to patients with major trauma.

Trauma Audit Research Network (TARN) is a collaboration formed of hospitals from all over England, Wales, Ireland and other parts of Europe.

We are looking for a confident individual with a strong administration background with intermediate skills on all Microsoft office applications and preferably with experience of medical terminology and knowledge of NHS England.

We require good attention to detail skills and accuracy skills in transposing clinical data from internal sources into the TARN database.

If you are looking for a new and exciting challenge with the opportunity to contribute to this important research network we would like to hear from you.

The Trauma Audit & Research Network (TARN) has been working with NHS Trusts across England and Wales for 20 years to improve emergency health care systems by collating and analysing trauma patient care data within each Trust. The registry of more than 250,000 injured patients provides a statistical base to support clinical audit and as a source of information is used to support trauma service improvement. TARN produces quarterly comparative reports for participating hospitals. These aid multi-specialty clinical case review and system of trauma care evaluation. The post holder will be based at Royal Surrey County Hospital and will be responsible for the provision of timely, accurate and reliable data on behalf of South West London and Surrey Major Trauma Network and Royal Surrey NHS NHS Trust to the TARN. As a member of the TARN data team, you will ensure delivery of the team objectives in capturing all patient data within specified time periods. This will involve locating patient notes and collecting them for the TARN submission process, whilst ensuring no disruption to clinical or other teams in areas where the patients notes may also be required. This will entail a good level of organisation to make the process most efficient and minimise down time for the TARN team. The post will involve the identification, using the TARN inclusion criteria, and subsequent completion of data submissions via the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system. The post holder will be based at Royal Surrey County Hospital and will be responsible for the provision of timely, accurate and reliable data on behalf of South West London and Surrey Major Trauma Network and Royal Surrey NHS NHS Trust to the TARN

• NVQ 4 or equivalent standard of education and experience
• Degree or equivalent standard of education and experience of clinical audit IT qualification

• Knowledge of Audit, acquired through postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience.
• Degree or equivalent standard of education and experience of clinical audit IT qualification

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£29,812 to £32,715 a year(per annum) pro-rata - includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)