Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery Registered
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Cover for maternity leave)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 409-7341497
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whiston Hospital
- Town
- Prescot
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/08/2025
Employer heading
Bed Manager
NHS AfC: Band 6
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Bed Manager to join our Team on a Fixed Term Basis
The bed manager role is a key role in the provision of safe patient flow across the Trust, ensuring patients receive the care they require in the most appropriate place. The bed manager will be part of the Operational site management team working 24/7 providing clinical expertise, managerial, leadership and coordination for the Trust across the Whiston, St Helens and Newton site.
The Operational Management Team is a key function in the provision of 5-star patient care across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
- The bed manager role is an important member of this team ensuring the effective utilisation of inpatient and day-case beds on a 24/7 basis whilst maintaining clinical quality and safety.
- They will assist in the coordination of elective and non-elective admissions across the 24 hour period, along with maintaining the various patient flow internal and external systems for monitoring and escalation.
- The postholder will provide nursing support, operational and clinical advice to all areas within the Trust.
- To develop the necessary skills and experience in patient flow and provide leadership.
- Act as deputy for the Operational Site Manager.
- To work according to NMC code of professional conduct and professional guidelines.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
- To ensure the coordination of admissions, transfers, and discharges for all patients across the acute Site are undertaken recognising the clinical requirements of all individuals.
- To ensure prioritisation of emergency admissions via the Emergency Department to maintain the national standards and in line with national targets.
- To work with the band 7 Operational Site Managers supporting 24/7 clinical site management and deputise in their absence.
- To act as a clinical expert for nursing issues.
- Take appropriate action to address any issues or risk
- To provide clear focus for clinical leadership and to provide clinical and professional advice and guidance to staff as required.
- To promote and facilitate the implementation of the Trust Core Values and objectives.
- To ensure data collection to support accurate reporting, for audit trails thereby ensuring effective utilisation of resources and relevant data quality standards in line with service and Organisational standards.
- To ensure early escalation of any issues that would impede flow, affect quality, patient safety or cause increased length of stay/ delay of safe discharge and to support the response to issues as required.
- To provide accurate and timely information relating to patient admissions, transfers, and discharges, maintaining awareness of overall ‘escalation profile’ of the Trust.
- Be responsible for ensuring good utilisation of Discharge lounge on a daily basis.
- Act as a point of contact for barriers to effective patient flow i.e. gender/ bed availability incompatibility, IPCC issues.
- To communicate with wards to share information regarding bed availability and patient flow.
- All other duties that are considered appropriate to the post.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain Professional registration
- Adhere to the NMC Code of Practice and the Scope of Professional Practice
- To attend relevant meetings
- To act as a positive role model to all grades of staff within the Trust
- Maintain effective communication with patients, relatives, visitors and staff as required.
- To work autonomously and manage own workload on a daily basis
- To communicate effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team
- To keep abreast with professional developments
- Keep up to date with all relevant changes in policies and procedures and present a strong corporate image
- To ensure the confidentiality of all patient information in line with Data Protection/ Caldecott legislation.
- To ensure the privacy and dignity of all patients is paramount and not compromised.
- Be fully conversant with the Major Incident Policy and be prepared to support its activation as required per policy.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure all relevant records are kept up to date and accurate and recording is completed in line with Trust policies and with the NMC Record Keeping guidance
- Maintain statistical data for the role.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSBILITIES
- Develop own skills and knowledge and contribute to the development of others.
- Support the preceptorship training programme relating to patient flow processes.
- To act as a role model and expert practitioner, providing support and guidance to nursing staff.
- To participate in an annual performance review to identify the post-holders personal development needs
- To attend Trust Statutory and Mandatory training sessions as required and any other training courses relevant to the post.
- To personally ensure fulfilment of the requirements for professional updating and to maintain a personal record for future registration purposes.
LINE MANAGEMENT/ SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsibility for designated staff within the team including appraisals, HR management etc.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Recognising the need for appropriate management of skill mix and utilisation of bank and agency staff when allocating shifts and within own team.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
- Contribute to the undertaking of audits required both internally and to support external processes relating to patient flow and national targets and standards.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse with current NMC Registration (RGN)
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and Assessing Qualification/Training, or equivalent
- Immediate Life Support/Advanced Life Support
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post registration experience within an acute setting
- Substantial experience relating to patient flow pressures
- Knowledge of the skills required to undertake the role
- Knowledge of current professional and clinical issues
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures
- Knowledge of IPC Practices
- Evidence of quality improvement in patient care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical teaching
- Facilitated staff professional development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise effectively
- Ability to work autonomously and as a multi-disciplinary team
- Leadership skills
- Good IT skills
Other
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to working pattern
- Ability to work a range of day and night shifts to support the team rotation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lyn Swift
- Job title
- Patient Flow Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07748932876
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