Patient Flow Duty Manager | Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Patient Flow Duty Manager to provide clinical leadership and coordinate bed capacity across Adult Mental Health and Older Persons services.

The role includes delivering out-of-hours first line managerial support, working with internal and external partners to manage patient flow, escalation of capacity breaches, and facilitation of complex discharge planning to ensure timely placements and safe patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to coordinate bed flow across the RDaSH bed base.
• Deliver out-of-hours first line managerial response for operational issues in Adult Mental Health and Older Persons services.
• Manage patient flow by coordinating with internal/external partners to optimise admission decisions and bed utilisation.
• Lead patient reviews and MDTs with visible clinical leadership across inpatient wards.

Job description

Patient Flow Duty Manager | Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Company: Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Are you ready for a new and exciting stage in your career? Are you proud to make a difference and passionate about facilitating change in order to improve clinical services?

At RDaSH NHS Foundation Trust we are ‘Leading the Way with Care’ through continually improving the quality of care we provide, to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our patients and their families and carers.As part of this our Patient Flow service to provides 24/7 leadership cover to work closely with our services to support effective Patient Flow leadership on a day-to-day basis.

As a Patient Flow Duty Manager, you will be expected toprovide clinical leadership to ensure the coordination of flow is effectively managed across the RDaSH bed base as well as to deliver out of hours first line managerial response for any operational issues across Adult Mental Health and Older Persons services. This will include:

• Working in conjunction with internal and external partners to proactively manage bed capacity in line with the Trust patient flow procedure andfacilitating, enabling, and supporting inpatient services and community teams in their decision making to achieve optimal patient flow and utilisation of available resources across services
• Managing Trust demands and patient flow activity by utilising clinical decision making and engaging with teams to support safe patient flow,escalating lack of capacity and breaches as necessary
• Maintaining oversight to support the gatekeeping of prospective admissions, ensuring timely and appropriate placement of patients requiring admission by working in collaborative with other managers and other clinicians to facilitate and expediate complex discharge arrangements by proactive management and leadership
• Co-ordinating, leading and actively engaging in patient reviews, professional’s meetings and MDTs, demonstrating support and informed decision making which will be achieved through visible clinical leadership across the inpatient wards

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

https://workwithrdash.co.uk/

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organization, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications

This advert closes on Thursday 22 Oct 2026

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust