Bed Manager

Integrated Care System; Radlett; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity as a Bed Manager at a leading health organization in the UK. Seeking a Registered Nurse or Social Worker to optimize patient flow across NHS Trusts, ensuring effective leadership in a collaborative environment. This role presents an exceptional chance to genuinely impact patient care and enhance operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 3 years senior level experience at band 7.
• Evidence of professional registration.
• Approved Mental Health Professional.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate requests for CAMHS, Adult Eating Disorders, and inpatient admissions.
• Provide clinical advice regarding admission processes.
• Manage bed resources across the East of England.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Expertise

Organizational Skills

Communication

Education

Professional qualifications RN with mental health experience

Management Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Go back Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Bed Manager

The closing date is 13 July 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Registered Nurse or Social Worker with a desire to optimize patient flow and discharge pathways across the region, working closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues.

The successful candidate must display a considerable degree of initiative, possess mature judgement. The successful candidate will additionally be required to provide comprehensive, professional, operational, effective leadership and managerial support to within the Single Point of Access and Patient Flow Service; whilst being supported by the Service Manager.

You will also work closely with the Service Manager and will be deputising for them at times ensuring a seamless service is delivered to patients across specialties, ensuring optimum bed capacity and that resources are deployed to meet the challenges faced with patient flow.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone who is looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in their work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference to our patients. The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to work alongside six different NHS Trusts across East of England.

We welcome applicants who may want to take this opportunity as a development post band 6 - 7 or secondment.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the reviewing and processing of day to day co-ordination of requests for CAMHS, Adult Eating Disorders and Secure inpatient admissions.

The Patient Flow Bed Management Team will be responsible for managing bed resources across the East of England (EoE) provider collaborative.

Provide clinical advice to all referrers from across the EoE collaborative regarding admission processes.

To receive referrals from EoE clinicians requesting hospital admissions, to negotiate appropriate placement taking into account service user presentation organisational policy and organisation resources. To take clinical responsibility for bed allocation decisions.

Car driver essential, or access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 2010).As part of the selection process you will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring check. The service believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trustare one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Job responsibilities

To liaise with services across the collaborative to facilitate organisation of EoE resources to ensure the availability of beds for admissions. This will include supporting discussions and decisions regarding transfers between wards and to community services to facilitate new admissions as required.

To work proactively with EoE services, social care services and other providers to support discharge, transition and contingency plans to ensure bed availability across services in scope.

Jointly with the bed management service and outreach teams, where clinically indicated, to develop repatriation plans for YP currently placed out of EoE area.

Demonstrate clinical excellence in contributing to the management of complex cases and to assist inpatient MDTs as appropriate in the management and treatment of delayed discharges and Out of Area Treatment processes (OATs)

To support the bed management/outreach team manager with ensure robust and timely clinical audit systems and the production of associated reports.

To provide clinical supervision to junior staff within the team. The post holder will regularly undertake QI and development activity as part of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualifications RN with mental health experience or DipsSW or CQSW or OT.
• Management Qualification or equivalent management experience to masters level
• Evidence of professional registration
• Approved Mental Health Professional
• 3 years senior level experience at band 7

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong Leadership and Motivational Skills
• Demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise
• Demonstrate sound organisational skills and the ability to lead teams
• Knowledge of legislation and practice relevant to the care group.
• Ability to assess needs of service users and their carers and to implement care planning within the Care Programme Approach framework.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other agencies and as a member of the multidisciplinary team in order to influence practice in relation to early discharge and bed occupancy.
• Ability to use the Trust computerised record system, i.e. Care Notes.
• To have an understanding of mental health community based services

Analytical skills

• Ability to consider more than one solution to a potential problem.
• Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change.
• Positive and outcome focused approach.
• Ability to take decisions when on call at night and weekends

Communications

• Excellent communications skills, oral and written.

Budgetary management

• Have knowledge and understanding of Health and Social Care budgets and pressures
• Manage a budget up to £5000.00

Experience

• Experience of working with people with mental health problems and working in a care environment.
• Experience of working in a mental health setting as a ward manager or equivalent experience in the community relating to the discharge from hospital of service users
• Knowledge of the National Service Framework and understanding of clinical governance
• Experience in extra contractual referrals (ECRs) and Individual Patient Agreements (IPAs)
• Previous experience training /practising as an ASW/AMHP
• Experience of using a variety of intervention methods
• Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the DDA

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

£48,270 to £54,931 a yearper annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAs)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

367-CYP-9483

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