Clinical Site Manager

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Site Clinical Lead to manage operational bed capacity and ensure effective decision-making across specialties. The role involves leading corporate meetings, supporting service improvements, and maintaining communications with stakeholders. Ideal candidates will be registered nurses with substantial leadership experience in clinical settings and a commitment to quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse/midwife with a degree or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in leading clinical services in a high-pressure environment.
• Evidence of managing service improvements and risk associated with service change.

Responsibilities

• Manage operational bed capacity and streamline patient journey.
• Lead corporate site meetings and ensure accurate reporting.
• Support the implementation of improvement plans for quality and effectiveness.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Decision Making

Change Management

Capacity Management

Education

1st level Registered nurse/midwife

Degree or equivalent professional qualification

Post graduate level qualification or equivalent

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To proactively manage the Trust operational bed capacity, ensuring that safe and effective decision making occurs across all specialties to streamline the patient journey at the point of admission, transfer and discharge.
• To provide real time capacity information to internal and external stakeholders through the provision of accurate reporting including situation reporting and escalation management systems.
• To Lead the Corporate Site Meetings, ensuring situation reports are accurately completed and plans agreed for discussion and enactment.
• To ensure Trust operational and escalation policies are followed with regard to Site Management and Operational Flow and in response to pan site incidents and escalations, this includes on site responder supporting the emergency teams for fire, security and serious adverse incidents.
• To maintain proactive, concise, accurate and timely communications to all Trust stakeholders to support planned and urgent care capacity plans.
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• To support the Head of Operations/ Lead Nurse with implementation, monitoring and reporting of improvement plans designed to deliver the improved quality and effectiveness of our planned and elective access pathways.
• Site and Capacity Managers are expected to work for the clinical and business success of the Central Operations Function with regard to pathways and operational bed management and to contribute to the corporate objectives and values of the Trust with regard to patient care, quality of service and access standards.
• The post holder will be working as the Site Clinical Lead out of hours and the nature of the work involves making timely decisions in concert with clinical teams and working within a busy operational environment.

Person specification

Education Qualifications and training

Essential criteria

• 1st level Registered nurse/midwife
• Degree or equivalent professional qualification
• Post graduate level qualification or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of continuous management development

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of leading a clinical service operationally
• Substantial previous experience of working in a highly pressurised environment
• Able to demonstrate the acquisition of professional knowledge in clinical practice
• Work within the acute sector
• Experience of leading the implementation of service improvement including complex change management programmes at a management level
• Experience of managing risk associated with service change
• Evidence of effective resource management
• Awareness of the NHS agenda at national and local level
• Able to demonstrate the use of evidence when decision making
• Experience of leading and managing others
• Experience of measuring and evaluating outcomes in order to secure improvement
• Experience of capacity management and an indepth understanding of patient flow

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders

Leadership and management skills

Essential criteria

• Evidence of leading and delivering change through others
• Able to hold others to account for agreed targets
• Creates and promotes opportunities for others to contribute and to develop
• Able to shape and implement a vision for future service development
• Evidence of effective team working to deliver and improve services
• Ability to critically analyse complex information and evaluate a range of options to identify service improvements
• Exhibits energy and resilience to drive through results
• Ability to adapt personal style in order to influence others and gain support for ideas

Personal attributes

Essential criteria

• Behaves in an open, ethical and professional manner
• Aware of own strengths and limitations
• Able to balance own plans and prioties with those of the service and other team members
• Able to demonstrate a level of personal confidence necessary to overcome barriers
• Occupational Health cleared to perform the duties of the role

Important information about your application

1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
5. New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community.

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At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!

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If you are currently in the UK on a visa, you must have at least six months remaining on your visa at the time of application to ensure sufficient time for the recruitment and training process associated with the role. The requirement of at least six months remaining on your visa does not apply to a Skilled Worker Visa, as a new Skilled Worker Visa would be required for a new role.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD and PS (PDF, 504.6KB)
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• Policy ex-offenders (PDF, 36.1KB)
• Infection control statement (PDF, 107.5KB)
• DBS Code of practice (PDF, 54.9KB)
• Trust Policy on Managing Risk Associated with Safeguarding Children (PDF, 1.1MB)
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• Speaking Up Policy (PDF, 523.6KB)
• Recruitment Reasonable Adjustments (PDF, 122.1KB)