Corporate Capacity Facilitator

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge?

We are looking for a highly organised and experienced individual to join us as a Corporate Capacity Facilitator role within the Hospital capacity management team.

You will deal with the day to day flow within the hospital, managing referrals from ED, across site, Elective procedures, Repatriations and Tertiary referrals into the trust. Previous knowledge and experience of management on an operational scale is essential.

Main duties of the job

Accountability for the co-ordination of the elective and emergency admissions in accordance with the Trust Management Policy thereby ensuring the best quality of care of each patient.
Effective membership of the multi professional team to ensure that effective patient flow across the organisation is achieved.
Overall responsibility for all repatriation arrangements with other acute Trusts.
Management of private transport bookings
Responsibility for management of all administrative duties in the Patient Flow department.
Ensuring that services are continually improved and developed in line with best practice standar
Providing multiple daily updates to the Chief Executive, Chief Operating officer, Deputy Chief Operating officer and Medical Director.

About us

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Date posted

09 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year Pro Rata, Per Annum

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

438-PB0595

Job locations

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

Sharoe Green Lane

Preston

PR2 9HT

Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached job description

You will have responsibility for managing and leading interventions in the patient pathway, with escalation where necessary to manage the risk of deviation from the predicted pathway in partnership with the Clinical Bed / Site Manager.

You will be responsible for managing and facilitating patient flow within the hospital within IPC regulations and with multiple conflicting priorities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached job description

You will be responsible for managing and facilitating patient flow within the hospital within IPC regulations and with multiple conflicting priorities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree level qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

Leadership qualification
ECDL or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential

Previous knowledge and understanding of overall trust capacity, managing expected and emergency demand with proactive management of patient flow
Evidence of understanding operational pressures
Experience of working in a structured operational environment
Experience and evidenceofanalysingand interpreting data
Experienceof working with multi-disciplinary teams
Knowledge of the Data Protection Act and patient confidentiality requirement

Desirable

Experience of working within an acute Trust
An understanding of NHS policy and procedure
Experience of Operation Improvement Methodologies
Experience in the use of NHS Patient Repatriation systems , PTS bookings and NWAS ambulance systems

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree level qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

Leadership qualification
ECDL or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential

Previous knowledge and understanding of overall trust capacity, managing expected and emergency demand with proactive management of patient flow
Evidence of understanding operational pressures
Experience of working in a structured operational environment
Experience and evidenceofanalysingand interpreting data
Experienceof working with multi-disciplinary teams
Knowledge of the Data Protection Act and patient confidentiality requirement

Desirable

Experience of working within an acute Trust
An understanding of NHS policy and procedure
Experience of Operation Improvement Methodologies
Experience in the use of NHS Patient Repatriation systems , PTS bookings and NWAS ambulance systems

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.