Assistant Patient Flow Practitioner | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	09 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£27,485 - £30,162 Per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	11 March 2026
Location:	Bury, BL97TD
Company:	Pennine Care NHS FT
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7729299/311-B500-26

Summary

The purpose of this post is to support the Patient Flow Coordinator with capacity and
flow on the general adult and older people’s wards.
The post holder will support the Patient Flow Coordinator in ascertaining the trust
position regarding bed management resources.
They will support in providing a comprehensive handover to the Night Managers and
coordinate receipt of a full handover the following day.
The post holder will be responsible for updating and maintaining systems to enable
accurate bed states across the organisation and Greater Manchester.

To assist the coordination of admission and discharge activities within adults and
older people acute services.
 Ensure an estimated date of discharge is declared within agreed timescales as
per operational policy.
 Ensure the patients care responsibility lies with PCFT
 To participate and assist in establishing an effective system for the management
of beds to ensure efficient patient flow.
 Respond to all requests for emergency admission, discussing alternatives with
the Patient Flow Coordinator where appropriate.
 Discharges.
 To be actively involved in the capture of audit data in response to service need.
 To liaise with the Patient Flow Coordinators on a daily basis to inform of the
current bad states within the organisation.
 To be involved in coordinating the discharge process.
 Record all OAPs in line with GM and National guidance.




We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

 Ensure accurate beds states are maintained in conjunction with the inpatients
wards including, admissions, discharges, patients on leave or AWOL and those
patients on a CTO recall.
 Work with Performance and Information colleagues to ensure timely data capture
and entry to support inpatient dashboard.
 Ensure effective communication with Night managers, Consultants, HTT, MHLT
and CMHT and other stakeholders involved in a patient’s care.
 Coordinate bed management meetings in the localities.
 Contact wards daily to understand plans for any patient movement e.g. leave or
discharge.
 Liaise with external partners regarding patients from out of area or cross border
activity.
 Support Patient Flow Hub with recording of non-contracted activity.
 Support with the arrangements of transport for patients.
 To support all aspects of patient flow.
 Work as part of a team to ensure the best outcome for the patient
 Ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times.
 To be self-motivated and manage own workload.
 To participate in training as required


This advert closes on Monday 23 Feb 2026