Head of Patient Flow

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust seeks a strategic Head of Patient Flow to lead system-wide discharge, capacity management and patient pathways across the NHS Trust and partners.

The role requires senior leadership, collaboration with clinical and operational teams, and a track record of delivering high-quality patient flow improvements, reduced length of stay, and resilient service delivery in a complex environment.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in healthcare settings.
• Experience in patient flow, discharge planning or capacity management.
• Strong collaboration with clinical and system partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for patient flow.
• Drive improvements across pathways and capacity across the system.
• Collaborate with clinical teams and local partners to deliver sustainable solutions.

Job description

Are you an experienced, forward-thinking operational leader ready to shape the future of patient flow across Northumbria?

Medicine and Emergency Care Business Unit are seeking an exceptional Head of Patient Flow to provide strategic and operational leadership across Northumbria Healthcare, driving improvements in patient pathways, discharge and capacity management across the whole system.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

This is a pivotal senior leadership position with responsibility for ensuring patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time. You will lead Trust-wide and system-level initiatives to optimise flow, reduce length of stay, minimise delays and maximise the use of capacity, ensuring delivery against national performance standards and improving patient outcomes.

Working across organisational boundaries, you will collaborate with clinical teams, operational leaders, community services and local authority partners to deliver integrated, sustainable solutions that improve patient experience and system resilience.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!