Inpatient Placement Sister (XR06)
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 February 2026 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9298-NEU-146 |
Summary
The Patient Flow and Discharge Lead is responsible for coordinating safe, effective, and timely patient movement throughout the hospital. The postholder provides senior clinical leadership to optimise bed utilisation, reduce delays, and ensure highquality discharge planning. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, they support operational decisionmaking and champion patientcentred care across all pathways. To have responsibility for facilitating, enabling and supporting interdisciplinary decision making in order to achieve optimal patient flows and utilisation of available resources across all relevant hospital sites. To actively manage patient flows by designing, implementing and maintaining processes that safely expedite patient placement and discharge. The jobholder is responsible for the timely and appropriate placement of patients requiring admission to the Trusts bed base and for the escalation procedure from A&E. The jobholder is responsible for facilitating timely elective and acute admissions to appropriate areas and to facilitate the timely discharge and admission of patients from critical care to the ward areas. Ensuring early identification of discharge needs and supporting wards to plan proactively. Facilitating complex discharges, working with social care, community teams, and external partners. Removing barriers to discharge by coordinating actions across clinical and nonclinical teams. Promoting safe, patientcentred discharge processes aligned with national guidance and local pathways. The jobholder will manage a team of Band 3 and Band 4 Discharge and Patient Flow Co-ordinators with the support of the Senior Patient Flow and Discharge Sister. The jobholder will act as a role model for high standards and provide expert clinical advice to support decision making around patient flow and discharge.