Flow and Capacity Lead | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Lancaster is seeking a Band 7 Flow Lead to ensure safe patient flow in mental health services. The candidate will work closely with inpatient wards and community teams, providing expert clinical advice and effective communication. The role requires motivation and experience in a multi-disciplinary team. This full-time position encourages flexible working options.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Work/life balance support

Qualifications

• Great communication skills are essential for working with inpatient wards, community teams, and third sector providers.
• Dynamic, motivated, and able to support safe patient flow.
• Experience as part of a multi-disciplinary team including Mental Health Nurses, Support Workers, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, and Consultants.

Responsibilities

• Provide a specialist advisory resource for Bay Locality for matters pertaining to patient flow and capacity.
• Act as a positive clinical role model and provide support and expert clinical advice.
• Ensure that patients in all parts of the mental health pathway receive timely care.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Motivation

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Flow Lead in The Bay. The job supports safe flow for patients requiring inpatient admission to a mental health ward. The Flow Lead will work closely with the inpatient wards and the community teams to support patients to be admitted and safely discharged following a period of assessment and treatment. The Flow Lead will have a relationship with the bed hub and support patients to be admitted as close to home as possible. They will also work with mental health services as well as third sector providers, so great communication skills are essential. The post is a full-time, permanent post covering the service over 5 days per week. The flow lead will support patients from The Bay in wards across the footprint and in OAP beds. The post holder will be dynamic and motivated to support safe flow. As a member of the team you would be working with a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Mental Health Nurses; Support Workers; Social Workers, Occupational Therapist; Psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrist.

Responsibilities

• Provide a specialist advisory resource for Bay Locality for matters pertaining to, or linked to, patient flow and capacity.
• Act as a positive clinical role model through the provision of support and expert clinical advice to staff and lead by example through visible leadership to motivate and empower others.
• Play an active role in working within the locality and across the Trust system to ensure that patients in all parts of the mental health pathway from community to inpatient receive care in the most appropriate place at the most appropriate time.

Qualifications and Skills

• Great communication skills are essential for working with inpatient wards, community teams, and third sector providers.
• Dynamic, motivated, and able to support safe patient flow.
• Experience as part of a multi-disciplinary team including Mental Health Nurses; Support Workers; Social Workers; Occupational Therapists; Psychologists and Consultants.

About the Trust

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care. The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. The Trust encourages flexible working and supports work/life balance, with options such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. Applicants are encouraged to state any flexible working requests on their application forms and discuss at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025