Clinical Site Manager | University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 04 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 April 2026 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV2 2DX |
| Company: | UHCW NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7834133/218-AC-B8A-7834133 |
Summary
We are seeking motivated, resilient, and forward-thinking professionals to join our Site Management Team, playing a pivotal role in ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality care across the Trust—24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This is a high-profile leadership role offering the opportunity to influence patient flow, capacity management, and clinical decision-making at a Trust-wide level.
As a Site Manager, you will provide visible, responsive clinical and managerial leadership, holding accountability for service delivery and operational advice both in and out of hours.
You will lead and co-ordinate an evidence-based capacity management service, promoting a dynamic, efficient flow of patients throughout the Trust while optimising the use of capacity and maintaining an environment that supports excellent patient care.
What We’re Looking For:
You will be a confident decision-maker with the ability to remain calm under pressure, balancing competing priorities while maintaining patient safety and service quality. Strong communication, leadership, and escalation skills are essential, alongside a commitment to collaborative, evidence-based practice.
If you are passionate about leadership, patient flow, and delivering high-quality care at scale, we would love to hear from you.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
Accountable for service delivery for the site capacity provision within the Trust
• To proactively manage Site capacity in and out of hours, ensuring that safe and effective decision making occurs to streamline the patient journey at admission, transfer and discharge.
• To provide real time capacity information to internal and external stakeholders through the provision of accurate reporting including situation reporting and escalation management systems
• To deliver professional and operational priorities from a corporate perspective
• To support senior colleagues across a spectrum of general and operational management issues aimed at managing overall capacity and patient flow.
• To maintain a leading role in the management of clinical capacity to accommodate elective and emergency admissions
• To facilitate staff and team development and ensure effective communication systems operate corporately.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award.Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
• To ensure 24-hour provision of service, through the use of proactive site management, patient flow and capacity utilisation, in line with Trust and national guideline.
• To ensure own and Clinical Site Management Team's compliance with all Trust policies, Integrated Discharge Policy, Trust Capacity & Demand Escalation Plan, Inter-site Transfer Policy and all relevant clinical policies. When required assume the leadership role in internal incident management and Major incidents as described within key Trust Policies and procedures. Lead on incidents which impact on business continuity, service interruption, and clinical internal and external incidents and participate in additional actions which impact on the safe and efficient running of the site.
• Co-ordinate admissions via the Emergency and urgent pathways using clinical assessment skills for patient placement through various admission pathways.
• Provide Leadership and expert advice to nursing staff acting as a point of contact out of hours for professional nursing issues.
• Act as a strong advocate for excellent patient care, establish and maintain effective relationships with clinical and managerial leaders providing a senior nursing perspective to ensure operational delivery is patient centered.
• Have responsibility for being the first point of contact for external organisations for all enquiries relating to site capacity and patient flow or management enquiries. Undertake agreed actions as per hospital escalation guidelines. To communicate with internal staff and external agencies to ensure strategic objectives are met. This will require the ability to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information, negotiate, influence and act with diplomacy at a high level.
• Chair capacity meetings, as required organise and chair additional meetings where there is an organisational requirement. Ensure actions agreed are specific, timely, and realistic and are reported back upon when required. Constantly reassess actions required in response to updated communication and information and make timely decisions about the actions required to address areas of patient flow, safety, or operational site capability.
• Have responsibility for the updating of the Emergency Management System (EMS) and Bed Management system for clear visibility of information across the Site. Monitor of activity in the discharge lounge and liaise with key stakeholders on efficient and effective use as required.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Mar 2026