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FRI 8 NOV 2024
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The Bed Manager will play a vital role in overseeing bed requests, facilitating purposeful admissions, and ensuring compliance with the London Compact principles, all while working alongside the Team Manager and Senior Management Team to deliver effective and high-quality patient care.
Do you want to work in a high performing team, are you organised and do you enjoy fostering good relationships? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Bed Manager to join the Patient Flow Team who will be operationally based across our two inpatient units.
The post holder will be the central point for all referrals for inpatient admissions and will be working within an integrated team alongside discharge coordinator and bed management team to ensure effective patient flow which includes reducing the length of inpatient stay. They will also be responsible for ensuring comprehensive and coordinated discharge planning processes are in place including working with patients with any barriers to their discharge pathway and who are Clinically Ready for Discharge (CRFD). The post holder will also hold a key role in supporting the Acute Trust with efficient transfer once a Decision to Admit has been made to minimise any breaches.
The Patient Flow Team is the single point of access for all referrals for acute inpatient admission. The post holder will co-ordinate and manage patient flow across Adult Acute Inpatient Services (including PICU and Older Adults Services) ensuring the best quality of care for each patient. The post holder will work alongside the Team Manager and Senior Management Team to ensure effective patient flow and a quality lead service.
Coordinating all bed requests and enable streamlined capacity management for all boroughs.
Provide support to ensure all admissions are purposeful face to face gatekeeping happens with a consistent threshold for admission overseen by the bed management team manager.
Ensuring compliance with the principles of the London Compact
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The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
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