Job summary
Patient
Flow Coordinator. Band 7 AFC
Substantive
post 15 hours per week.
The
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for you to
join our Maternity service as an Patient Flow Coordinator. This is an
exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in improving safety, efficiency,
and service user experience of the induction of labour process in our
hospitals.
Working
15 hours per week, you will coordinate and oversee the induction of labour
process, supporting service users to make empowered choices about their care
whilst also supporting colleagues in delivering high-quality, evidence-based
care, ensuring the smooth and safe flow of service users through the service.
Expected Shortlisting
Date
22/09/2025
Planned Interview
Date
29/09/2025
Main duties of the job
Key
responsibilities include:
Acting as the primary point of
contact for the coordination of induction of labour
Support the planning and scheduling
of inductions, liaising with maternity, obstetric and ward teams to ensure
timely care provision.
Provide expert clinical support,
advice and guidance to colleagues, service users and their families.
Monitor service activity, identifying
capacity pressures and escalating appropriately.
Contribute to audit, quality
improvement and service development initiatives.
Please see the job description attached or contact
cate.wetton@nhs.net or 0113 2066619 for
further details.
About us
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals Trust have a long history of investing in our staff with the
provision of training and development. We aim to support and nurture allowing
staff to reach their full potential, expanding and increasing their skill sets,
and enabling the provision of the very best possible care to women and their
families. The Leeds way vision is to be the best in specialist and integrated
care. We strive to be patient centred, fair, collaborative, accountable and
empowered.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process
of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As
such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right
to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do
experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please
bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if
you have any questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB
DETAILS
Job Title: Patient Flow Coordinator
Reports to: Matron
Band: 7
Department: Womens CSU
Location Cross City
JOB
PURPOSE/SUMMARY
The
post holder will be will be responsible for flow of patients into and out
from the maternity services. This will
include the daily management and booking of women requiring induction of
labour and oversight of elective caesarean section bookings as well as women
accessing the maternity services through the acute pathway. They will work
with the clinical teams to facilitate appropriate timely admission, transfer
and discharge of across the maternity pathways.
The
post holder will need to have demonstrable knowledge skills and experience in
maternity services to facilitate and prioritise patient flow across the
inpatient services. The post holder needs to work well in high pressured
situations and be confident to communicate and collaborate with all levels of
the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of safe quality care.
The
post holder will communicate the capacity and flow position to the senior
teams and escalate any issues that cannot be mitigated and need further input
to resolve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB
DETAILS
Job Title: Patient Flow Coordinator
Reports to: Matron
Band: 7
Department: Womens CSU
Location Cross City
JOB
PURPOSE/SUMMARY
The
post holder will be will be responsible for flow of patients into and out
from the maternity services. This will
include the daily management and booking of women requiring induction of
labour and oversight of elective caesarean section bookings as well as women
accessing the maternity services through the acute pathway. They will work
with the clinical teams to facilitate appropriate timely admission, transfer
and discharge of across the maternity pathways.
The
post holder will need to have demonstrable knowledge skills and experience in
maternity services to facilitate and prioritise patient flow across the
inpatient services. The post holder needs to work well in high pressured
situations and be confident to communicate and collaborate with all levels of
the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of safe quality care.
The
post holder will communicate the capacity and flow position to the senior
teams and escalate any issues that cannot be mitigated and need further input
to resolve.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Degree in Midwifery
Desirable
- Masters Degree or Working towards Masters level qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional education and development.
- Experience in all aspects of maternity care.
- Demonstrable experience in developing self and others and changing practice.
- Recent demonstrable experience of supporting women and families
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of national patient safety agenda and NHS England and CQC priorities.
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Excellent communication skills and ability to be responsive to emotive conversations.
- Act as a role model demonstrating exemplary skills in maternity care.
- Flexible, highly motivated and supportive of others.
- Ability to develop excellent working relationships with all staff within the Trust and external partners.
- Strong organisational and planning skills
- Willing to develop new skills including completing appropriate training as required.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Ability to adapt written and verbal communication skills to the audience.
- Ability to undertake a wide range of work procedures without direct supervision
- Ability to analyse data and produce required reports and information.
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Degree in Midwifery
Desirable
- Masters Degree or Working towards Masters level qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional education and development.
- Experience in all aspects of maternity care.
- Demonstrable experience in developing self and others and changing practice.
- Recent demonstrable experience of supporting women and families
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of national patient safety agenda and NHS England and CQC priorities.
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Excellent communication skills and ability to be responsive to emotive conversations.
- Act as a role model demonstrating exemplary skills in maternity care.
- Flexible, highly motivated and supportive of others.
- Ability to develop excellent working relationships with all staff within the Trust and external partners.
- Strong organisational and planning skills
- Willing to develop new skills including completing appropriate training as required.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Ability to adapt written and verbal communication skills to the audience.
- Ability to undertake a wide range of work procedures without direct supervision
- Ability to analyse data and produce required reports and information.
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
