Site Capacity Manager

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting two Site Managers to lead capacity management, staff deployment and clinical safety across the organisation. The role focuses on maintaining safe staffing, bed flow and hospital throughput during elective and emergency pressures.

You will work 12-hour shifts, days and nights, including weekends and bank holidays, with part-time options. You must be a first level registered nurse, degree educated, with at least five years post‑registration

Qualifications

• First level Registered Nurse educated to degree level with at least 5 years post‑registration experience, including 2 years at band 6.
• Experience identifying and resolving capacity pressures and placing patients appropriately during high demand.
• Good understanding of patient flow drivers and constraints.
• Ability to think strategically and provide leadership, mediation and negotiation.
• Experience delivering site capacity management and 24/7 hospital operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage capacity and implement escalation procedures out of hours with clinical practitioners.
• Lead on clinical safety and ensure safe staffing levels and patient flow.
• Allocate staff resources and ensure beds are appropriate for clinical needs.
• Collaborate with General Managers, on-call manager and executives during in-hours and out-of-hours.
• Ensure hospital-wide site integrity and 24/7 operations.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical judgement

Capacity management

Negotiation

Strategic thinking

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

We are looking to recruit two site managers to join our Team.

This role consists of capacity management, staff deployment and leading on clinical safety of the organisation out of hours. To maintain safe staffing levels, site integrity and the flow throughout the organisation from an elective and emergency perspective, whilst achieving quality targets.

You will be responsible for the management of capacity and the effective implementation of escalation procedures. Out of hours you will work with clinical practitioners to ensure clinical safety whilst maintaining flow and capacity. In hours you will work with the General Managers and out of hours with the on call manager and executive.

You are required to possess the skills and experience to be able to effectively identify and implement plans, assist in resolving capacity pressures and show sound clinical judgement regarding appropriate placement of patients at times of extreme pressures.

The role involves 12 hour shifts, both days and nights, including weekends and bank holidays. Part time will be considered.

You will be a first level Registered Nurse, educated to degree level, with a minimum 5 years post registration experience of which 2 years at band 6. You will have a good understanding of the drivers and constraints around effective patient flow. To be a competent clinical practitioner and possess effective leadership, mediation and negotiation skills with the ability to think and operate strategically.

The post holder is responsible, in collaboration with other senior members of the team for the delivery of site capacity management and Hospital 24/7. Ensuring the available resources are optimised to achieve strategic changes and improvements in services and operational systems within existing constraints.

To provide strong operational and clinical leadership across the Trust, empowering others to ensure that patient care is evidence based, patient centred and is compliant with the quality standards determined by the Trust. To maintain site integrity and flow within the Trust 24/7 this includes allocation of staff resources. To ensure patients are placed in the most appropriate bed for their clinical need and ensuring flow is maintained throughout the Trust in a timely manner.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Eugene Cortez Job title: Operational Site Lead Email address: [e-mail]