ICU Nursing flow and capacity Manager

Job summary

• The Adult Critical Care Directorate is made up of three Adult Critical Care Units totally 57 beds.
• We care for approximately 3600 emergency and elective patients a year from a diverse case mix, including a range of specialities; general / respiratory medicine, Cardiac, Neuro, renal medicine and surgery, obstetrics, plastic surgery, ENT, orthopaedics, and Major Trauma.
• The Intensive Care Units have a strong research culture and links with St Georges University of London and Kingston University and encourages innovation and clinical excellence.
• We are looking for a dynamic, motivated ICU Nursing capacity and Flow manager to co-ordinate and facilitate capacity and flow , ensuring the safe and timely admission and discharge of both emergency and elective patients to the Adult Critical Care.

Main duties of the job

• The principal functions of the ICU Nursing flow and capacity Manager
• Be an excellent clinical practitioner with an ability to manage complex situations and data ensuring patient safety.
• Communicate with the Critical Care Units and the operational teams to collate accurate admission and discharge profile and manage complex information.
• Facilitate flow of emergency and elective Critical Care admissions- ensuring timely and safe admission to Critical care
• Facilitate the clinically safe and efficient discharge of critical care patients.
• Communicate with the MDT, site team, Nurse-in-charge and Senior Nurse on Call ensuring updated information on the admission, discharge, and transfers of patients.
• Organise and prioritise own workload within agreed timescales building in flexibility to deal with unforeseen demands on time and resources.
• Manage challenging situations in a fast-paced environment making independent decisions to avoid delays in the patient's journey, whilst acting in a calm and professional manner
• Develop audits and collect data relevant to admission, discharge and capacity.

About us

St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the UK's largest healthcare organisations and is integrated with Wandsworth Community Services. The Trust shares its main hospital site in South West London with St George's University of London, and is linked to Kingston University Faculty of Health Social Care & Education.

St George's has an established national and international reputation as a leading hospital for specialist care including neurosciences, cardiac care, stroke and cancer. We provide excellent local care to the residents of Wandsworth, and regional specialist centre care for a number of specialities including, hyper acute stroke and major trauma.

We are a Major Trauma centre and have one of only two helipads in London, with direct access to the Trust's state of the art Emergency Department. The helipad increases the number of direct HEMs admissions and secondary transfers requiring intensive care services.

We employ 8,000 staff, around 1,100 beds and we serve a population of 1.3 million across south west London.

All new staff will have a period of supernumerary practice during which time they can establish themselves in their new role and complete their Trust/Unit core competencies. If you require any more information please contact the Matrons.