Senior Clinical Coordinator
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 May 2025 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9321-25-0619 |
Summary
Be responsible for the admission of emergency patients through the ED, SEU, Clinics and other identified admitting areas, to ensure appropriate placement of patients according to their clinical need and safety. Monitor the trigger factors associated with, and when necessary implement the Trusts Bed Escalation Strategy in order to minimise bed crisis through effective planning. To co-ordinate the Trusts response to patients who are likely to exceed the national ED standards as set out in the NHS plan. To monitor and facilitate actions to ensure national and local developments for Government Targets are met, including 4 hour standard, single sex accommodation, 18 and 52 week pathways. Advise the operational team on admission, discharge and patient flow issues. In the event of limited capacity, negotiate the opening of closed beds for patient placement ensuring patient safety remains a priority at all times. To maintain real time accurate bed state, monitoring actual and potential occupancy at all times. Contribute to the required daily collection of data and analyse information on closed/vacant beds, patient admission/discharge, emergency attendance, delayed transfer of care patients and key trust performance targets. In conjunction with clinical staff, co-ordinate the elective admission process out of hours, reconciling the demand for optimal activity and bed occupancy and meeting of the Trust targets with the need to provide sufficient capacity for emergency admissions. Be responsible for ensuring that quality care is maintained and that the Trust is able to provide a robust response to emerging issues. Communicate with other Trusts regarding Bed Status and Alert Status and proactively monitor and assist wards in the repatriation of patients back to their accepting hospitals. Manage and co-ordinate any critical incident which occurs within the Trusts four sites in line with the Major Incident Policy. Participate in and co-ordinate the Trusts emergency response teams to Fire, Security Alerts, Cardiac Arrest and other clinical emergencies, and to be responsible for the co-ordination of first line management of major and serious untoward incidents as required. Provide accurate information to external organisations such as Police and Ambulance Service and liaise with the media office team. Allocate the pool bank nurses and redeploy nurses within the Trust to align resources to workload to agreed Safe Staffing numbers for each ward/department. Be responsible for ensuring the Duty Manager/Duty Executive is briefed of untoward Incidents and situations.