AAA Programme Co-ordinatorNHS

Job summary

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 AAA (Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm) co-ordinator within the West Yorkshire (WYO) NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Service. The role is a senior role, responsible for leading the operational delivery of the NHS AAA Screening Programme across the region. The post combines leadership, service management, quality assurance, and patient pathway coordination. The base is at Calderdale Royal Hospital and the hours of work is 28 over 4 days.

Main duties of the job

The role involves managing screening pathways, coordinating clinics, supervising staff, monitoring performance, maintaining high-quality data, and working collaboratively with clinical and administrative teams to provide an effective and patient-centred screening service.The post holder contributes to service development, quality improvement, governance, and compliance with national screening standards while ensuring patients receive timely screening, surveillance, and onward referral where appropriate.

Job description

The Band 6 AAA Co-ordinator is responsible for coordinating the day-to-day operational delivery ofthe NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme across West Yorkshire. The postholder ensures the programme is delivered efficiently, safely, and in accordance with nationalscreening standards, NHS policies, and local procedures.The role involves managing screening pathways, coordinating clinics, supervising staff, monitoringperformance, maintaining high-quality data, and working collaboratively with clinical andadministrative teams to provide an effective and patient-centred screening service.The post holder contributes to service development, quality improvement, governance, andcompliance with national screening standards while ensuring patients receive timely screening,surveillance, and onward referral where appropriate.

About us

CHFT is an integrated acute and community Trust serving diverse communities across Calderdale and Kirklees, with strong partnerships across West Yorkshire. We are proud of our One Culture of Care -- caring for each other with the same compassion, kindness and respect that we show our patients -- and of the values that underpin how we work: we put people first, we go see, we work together to get results, and we do the must dos.

CHFT is recognised as a forward looking, digitally enabled Trust, with a strong track record of using data, innovation and system collaboration to improve quality, safety and outcomes. We are ambitious about the role that acute trusts play in prevention, population health and reducing inequalities, and this post sits at the heart of that agenda.