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Waiting list coordinator

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Coordinator of hospital waiting lists Coordinator of waiting lists Healthcare waiting list manager Hospital waiting list coordinator Manager of hospital waiting lists Manager of waiting lists Medical care waiting list coordinator Senior waiting list coordinator Surgical waiting list coordinator Waiting list coordinator Waiting list manager

Waiting list coordinators guarantee the day to day management of waiting list time. They plan when operation rooms are available and call patients in to be operated. Waiting list coordinators make sure to optimise the use of resources.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Planning, developing, maintaining and operating a variety of health record indexes and storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store and analyse information;
(b) Transcribing, compiling and processing patient medical records, admission and discharge documents and other medical reports into records-keeping systems to provide data for patient monitoring and referral, epidemiological monitoring, research, billing, cost control and care improvement;
(c) Reviewing records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with regulations;
(d) Translating narrative descriptions and numeric information from medical records and other documents on health services delivery into codes associated with standard classification systems;
(e) Protecting the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained and releasing information to authorized persons and agencies in accordance with regulations;
(f) Supervising clerical and administrative workers involved in the maintenance of medical records.

Knowledge

  • Management and administration
  • Medicine
  • Work skills
  • Secretarial and office work
  • Database and network design and administration

Digital competencies

  • Planning events and programmes
  • Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
  • Developing operational policies and procedures
  • Communicating with colleagues and clients
  • Managing information

Digital competencies

  • Managing, gathering and storing digital data

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Supporting others
  • Following ethical code of conduct

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Health associate professionals

Other health associate professionals

Medical records and health information technicians

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Medical records and health information technicians

72

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

47,37%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

30,91% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

31,94%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

29,17%

Part-time contracts

1,80% Turnover index

64

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

21%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Health associate professionals

28%

72%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Health associate professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Other health associate professionals

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Medical records and health information technicians

No experience
13%
Less than 1 year
22%
Between 1 and 2 years
16%
Between 2 and 4 years
27%
Between 4 and 8 years
9%
More than 8 years
13%
Administrative and support service activities
34%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
15%
Information and communication
9%
Human health and social work activities
8%
Education
8%
Others
26%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.