Bed Manager | West London NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,057 - £45,839 pa plus HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | SOUTHALL, UB1 3EU |
| Company: | West London Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6209946/222-LS-AMHS-98-G |
Summary
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 post holder will work closely with the Patient Flow Manager, and deputise where required, to manage the inpatient bed provision across the Adult Acute Inpatient Services in Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham including PICU and Older Adults Inpatient Services. The post holder will be expected to work closely alongside the Senior Management Team, Inpatient Leadership Teams and Community Teams to ensure effective patient flow in maintained.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. In return you will be supported by robust clinical leadership and we will provide support and training for this role and on-going supervision and the development of your skills.
If you are looking for a new challenge and wish to be part of an expanding team who play a key role in ensuring that Trust Values are at the heart of every inpatient admission, then we want to hear from you.
The post holder would be expected to undertake a shift working pattern which includes weekends and unsocial hours.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
The Bed Management 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.
• Clinical System recording and managing the Waiting List and DTA function.
• Management and leadership of daily communications including leading bed management calls; ensure bed state is circulated by 5pm Monday to Friday, and out of hours to senior manager on call and senior nurse on call.
• Oversight of all patients admitted across two sites including the recovery house (working alongside ECATT leads) as well as attendance at all bed management meetings.
• Point of escalation for Surge Teams, disputes in relation to bed requests.
• Central point for Out of Area Placements (OAP), ESR requests, coordinating relevant referrals and any required command calls.
• Coordinate and support planning of, outcome of and change in circumstance for expected DTAs, bed requests, planned MHAA and police S136 calls.
• Providing a consistent approach to all WL patients in regards to patient flow systems/processes and enable a seamless bed management/discharge coordination pathway.
• Support with potential breaches to reduce escalation to out of hours on call manager and minimise bed escalations from A&E.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024