Job summary
- The post holder will support the Lead Nurse (Patient Pathway Co-ordinator Team) to work across professional boundaries to ensure appropriate national and local strategic and operational service objectives and standards are met.
- The Senior Clinical Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day to day running of the clinical coordinator team whilst providing and maintaining high quality clinical care for patients. They will also be responsible for providing specialist advice, support and expertise to ward teams as required. This will include participation in the Trust Emergency Response Team to cardiac arrest and other emergencies.
- Provide senior support to manage the Trust's bed capacity over a 24-hour period, ensuring all emergency and elective admission processes meet both related national targets, local and national patient pathways and quality standards.
- The Senior Clinical Coordinator will rotate across all four of the OUH sites and deputise in the absence of the Lead Nurse.
- The post will require engagement, negotiation and collaborative working with a range of professional groups and stakeholders, both within and outside the organisation. This will be achieved by demonstrating sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from peers or line manager when appropriate.
Main duties of the job
Managerial and professional leadership of the service and team
Oversight of Clinical Care Standards
Responsibility for Business planning , Financial Management and Human Resource Management
The operational team consist of 40 staff working a cross all 4 sites of the organisation providing Operational Management cover 24/7 . The responsibilities of the team cover both site and bed management.
The team works closely with key individuals across the Trust from ward staff and Matrons through to the Duty Executive and externally with key healthcare partners across Oxfordshire , the neighbouring counties and UK.
The role is everchanging and diverse , No two days are the same and there are always learning opportunities.
We are looking for individuals who have the ability to problem solve, decision make , negotiate and are able to think laterally in a fast paced environment with multiple challenges.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be responsible for the admission of emergency patients through the ED, SEU, Clinics and other identified admitting areas, to ensure appropriate placement of patients according to their clinical need and safety.
- Monitor the trigger factors associated with, and when necessary implement the Trusts Bed Escalation Strategy in order to minimise bed crisis through effective planning. To co-ordinate the Trusts response to patients who are likely to exceed the national ED standards as set out in the NHS plan.
- To monitor and facilitate actions to ensure national and local developments for Government Targets are met, including 4 hour standard, single sex accommodation, 18 and 52 week pathways.
- Advise the operational team on admission, discharge and patient flow issues. In the event of limited capacity, negotiate the opening of closed beds for patient placement ensuring patient safety remains a priority at all times.
- To maintain real time accurate bed state, monitoring actual and potential occupancy at all times.
- Contribute to the required daily collection of data and analyse information on closed/vacant beds, patient admission/discharge, emergency attendance, delayed transfer of care patients and key trust performance targets.
- In conjunction with clinical staff, co-ordinate the elective admission process out of hours, reconciling the demand for optimal activity and bed occupancy and meeting of the Trust targets with the need to provide sufficient capacity for emergency admissions. Be responsible for ensuring that quality care is maintained and that the Trust is able to provide a robust response to emerging issues.
- Communicate with other Trusts regarding Bed Status and Alert Status and proactively monitor and assist wards in the repatriation of patients back to their accepting hospitals.
- Manage and co-ordinate any critical incident which occurs within the Trusts four sites in line with the Major Incident Policy.
- Participate in and co-ordinate the Trusts emergency response teams to Fire, Security Alerts, Cardiac Arrest and other clinical emergencies, and to be responsible for the co-ordination of first line management of major and serious untoward incidents as required.
- Provide accurate information to external organisations such as Police and Ambulance Service and liaise with the media office team.
- Allocate the pool bank nurses and redeploy nurses within the Trust to align resources to workload to agreed Safe Staffing numbers for each ward/department.
- Be responsible for ensuring the Duty Manager/Duty Executive is briefed of untoward Incidents and situations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be responsible for the admission of emergency patients through the ED, SEU, Clinics and other identified admitting areas, to ensure appropriate placement of patients according to their clinical need and safety.
- Monitor the trigger factors associated with, and when necessary implement the Trusts Bed Escalation Strategy in order to minimise bed crisis through effective planning. To co-ordinate the Trusts response to patients who are likely to exceed the national ED standards as set out in the NHS plan.
- To monitor and facilitate actions to ensure national and local developments for Government Targets are met, including 4 hour standard, single sex accommodation, 18 and 52 week pathways.
- Advise the operational team on admission, discharge and patient flow issues. In the event of limited capacity, negotiate the opening of closed beds for patient placement ensuring patient safety remains a priority at all times.
- To maintain real time accurate bed state, monitoring actual and potential occupancy at all times.
- Contribute to the required daily collection of data and analyse information on closed/vacant beds, patient admission/discharge, emergency attendance, delayed transfer of care patients and key trust performance targets.
- In conjunction with clinical staff, co-ordinate the elective admission process out of hours, reconciling the demand for optimal activity and bed occupancy and meeting of the Trust targets with the need to provide sufficient capacity for emergency admissions. Be responsible for ensuring that quality care is maintained and that the Trust is able to provide a robust response to emerging issues.
- Communicate with other Trusts regarding Bed Status and Alert Status and proactively monitor and assist wards in the repatriation of patients back to their accepting hospitals.
- Manage and co-ordinate any critical incident which occurs within the Trusts four sites in line with the Major Incident Policy.
- Participate in and co-ordinate the Trusts emergency response teams to Fire, Security Alerts, Cardiac Arrest and other clinical emergencies, and to be responsible for the co-ordination of first line management of major and serious untoward incidents as required.
- Provide accurate information to external organisations such as Police and Ambulance Service and liaise with the media office team.
- Allocate the pool bank nurses and redeploy nurses within the Trust to align resources to workload to agreed Safe Staffing numbers for each ward/department.
- Be responsible for ensuring the Duty Manager/Duty Executive is briefed of untoward Incidents and situations.
Person Specification
Ability to demenstarte essential requirements through application and interview
Essential
- Suitable experience and education
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate skills required
Person Specification
Ability to demenstarte essential requirements through application and interview
Essential
- Suitable experience and education
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate skills required
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
