Bed Manager - Band 4

Job summary

To facilitate efficient utilisation of the hospital's bed stock. Working with the Operations Centre Managers, Matrons, Consultants, Junior Medical Staff and nursing staff to manage all emergency inpatient admission and to advise on the management of elective surgical activity. To support the Discharge Liaison nurse in ensuring timely discharge from Hospital.

Main duties of the job

1.Actively coordinate and manage the site's bed stock, making appropriate use of all beds to minimise elective cancellation and ensuring an accurate bed state is known across the trust.2.Respond to emergency activity pressures by following the appropriate escalation policies.3.Effectively communicate with all wards, departments, all members of the multidisciplinary team. and other hospital sites to ensure timely transfers and or/discharge of patients.4.Communicate with clinical medical teams in the placement of outliers to maintain an accurate record of those outliers.5.Liaise with Discharge Liaison Nurses and/or Clinical Multidisciplinary Teams to support the management of patients whose discharge is delayed.6.Liaise with Accident and Emergency Department to manage emergency admissions and to track patients waiting on trolleys for beds to become available, maintaining the 4 hour standard, supported by use of the Medway and Clinical Management Systems.7.Collection of situation report data from both Lincoln and Louth sites required by the Health Authority and Regional Executive. (Sit rep)8.Effective communication passing on timely information to clinical service teams to enable effective and efficient bed management.9.Communicate with Bed Managers on other sites and to predict and forecast information to enable operational managers to plan for escalation of activity.10.To manage elective and emergency admissions to maximise use of beds.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated