Bed Manager inEast Kilbride inEast Kilbride PUBLISHED FRI 10 JAN 2025

The Role

NHS Lanarkshire have an opportunity for a Part-time Bed Manager based within University Hospital Hairmyres. The Bed Manager works as an autonomous practitioner, and has the responsibility for the day to day management and leadership of bed management services including supervision and development of junior staff. You will provide clinical leadership related to effective bed management, including the delegation of key tasks and development of staff, support the effective placement of patients within the appropriate speciality, provide support and guidance to staff in relation to sign posting to specialist provision to assist in discharge planning processes.

The Bed Manager will have responsibility for assessment of care needs and the development of programmes of care, and / or the implementation and evaluation of these programmes ensuring the patient’s journey through the hospital delivers the required care and will contribute towards service developments and innovations within the service.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Registered Nurse with at least 5 years post registration experience, 2 of which were within the specialty
• Educated to/working towards/operating at degree level*
• Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of specialty including study days/courses/post graduate qualification
• The post holder will possess excellent team working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
• Effective listening, communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective time management skills
• Please note that the term ”operating at” degree/masters level corresponds to possessing an equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience.
  
  

Contract type

Permanent

Part Time

18.5 hours

Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Patient Flow within University Hospital Hairmyres.

The working pattern will include weekends

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Karen Robinson, Bed Manager on

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Marion Bisset, Recruitment Administrator on (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some Of NHS Lanarkshire’s Benefits Include

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures
  
  

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.

• Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.
  
  

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

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