Patient Flow Lead - 24/7 Clinical Operations

RDaSH; Doncaster; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

RDaSH NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Patient Flow Duty Manager to provide clinical leadership and coordinate bed flow across the Trust’s adult mental health and older persons services. The role supports out-of-hours first line management and will lead multidisciplinary reviews and MDT discussions to ensure timely placements and effective discharge planning.

You will work with internal and external partners to optimise bed utilisation, manage capacity warnings, and supervise escalation of

Responsibilities

• Working in conjunction with internal and external partners to proactively manage bed capacity in line with the Trust patient flow procedure and facilitating, 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

Job description

RDaSH NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Patient Flow Duty Manager to provide clinical leadership and coordinate bed flow across the Trust’s adult mental health and older persons services. The role supports out-of-hours first line management and will lead multidisciplinary reviews and MDT discussions to ensure timely placements and effective discharge planning.

You will work with internal and external partners to optimise bed utilisation, manage capacity warnings, and supervise escalation of