Job summary
- Main area
- Chief Operating Officer
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend working)
- Job ref
- 190-0320-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 02/06/2025
Employer heading

Care Transfer Hub Manager (Physical)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
You will be hosted by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals FT and work on behalf of Sheffield Place for the people of Sheffield. This post is a system post and will work alongside all system partners from the Sheffield Integrated Care Board, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (combined community and acute trust) and Sheffield City Council.
You will lead a multi-disciplinary team made up of RNs, AHPs, Administration Staff, Voluntary Sector colleagues and Adult Social Care professionals all involved in supporting people to return home after their discharge. The Care Transfer Hub is centred around Home First, why not home, why not today. We want to reduce the risk of harm to the person by delays in their transfer of care and we want to improve people's outcomes, home is best.
The Care Transfer Hub Manager will provide operational leadership and coordination to enable transfers of care from both acute and community physical health beds and support recovery in the community.
Main duties of the job
You will be a strong, credible, and experienced leader who is able to successful navigate the intricacies of being in a system role.
You will have an excellent understanding of, and passion for, hospital discharge a home first, strengths-based mindset, an analytical approach and apply evidence-based methodology. You will be confident in leading change and managing in uncertainty. You will lead by example and be highly visible.
Clear focus on improving outcomes for patients, the Care Transfer Hub Manager will ensure processes are in place to facilitate people being discharged on the correct pathway at the right time.
Improvements in our discharge to assess using our demand and capacity modelling to right-size our capacity and maximise opportunities for rehabilitation, reablement and recovery for people leaving hospital and extend the offer into mental health discharges.
Building on our development of the digital discharge tool to improve system visibility and enable us to better focus our efforts in times of escalation, expanding the data sharing to include acute, community, adult social care and mental health data sets.
Scale up and embed our care transfer-hub test of change to deliver improved discharge coordination across health and social care and use our learning within our physical health space to support similar working practices into mental health discharge.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Academic Level 7 (Masters degree or post graduate qualification plus additional expertise, evidence of specialist knowledge and experience)
- Registered Health or Social Care Professional (NMC, HCPC, SWE)
- Evidence continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working at a senior level in specialist area (Nursing, Social Work, AHP’s)
- Previous experience of implementing a Discharge to Assess or Home First service
- Proven ability to lead, teach and act as a role model at senior level
- Risk management and clinical governance
Other
Essential criteria
- Driving licence or access to transport to attend external events/meetings/sites
- Excellent IT skills and confident with Microsoft packages
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Leckie
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Operating Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114275 5445
- Additional information
Sarah Farragher
Interim System Discharge Lead (Sheffield)
Telephone: 0114 275 5083
Email: [email protected]
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