Job overview

hospital is safe, timely and co-ordinated. This role works closely with the Senior Clinical Site Manager and all divisions to ensure the daily operational strategy is aligned to maintaining emergency and elective care performance 24/7. 

The Patient Capacity Manager facilitates efficient and effective patient flow through the wards on RLH site, ensuring optimal patient safety is achieved, whilst working with the national and local patient access targets balancing the elective and emergency demand. 

As the Patient Capacity Manager you will be able to communicate effectively and in a timely manner with colleagues both internally at Barts Health and externally and liaise on a daily basis with all key personnel within the divisions on patient flow both verbally and through written documentation.

You will be able to contact and discuss solutions to capacity difficulties with service management teams and Consultants, to devise solutions using members of other clinical and non-clinical staff as appropriate. Clinical decision understanding is vital for this position.

If this interests you please contact Brodie Field Or James Waldie on 02035945678

Main duties of the job

•    The role of the Patient Capacity Manager is to ensure flow through The Royal London hospital is safe, timely and co-ordinated. This role will work with the Senior Clinical Site Manager to ensure the daily operational strategy to support is aligned to maintaining emergency and elective care performance 24/7. 
•    To facilitate efficient and effective patient flow through the wards on RLH site, ensuring optimal patient safety is achieved, whilst working with the national and local patient access targets balancing the elective and emergency demand. 
•    To ensure that the Trust maintains the safe and timely assessment of ED patients and contributes to the achievement of the 18-week target. 
•    To assume site responsibility duties and co-ordination where required. 
•    To work closely with the Discharge Co-ordination team on a daily basis to expedite discharge and transfers of care. 
•    To act as an excellent role model and leader to all staff. 
•    Expediting the transfer of emergency patients from tertiary referral centres for care at Barts Health in line with agreed timelines. 
•    Expediting the repatriation of patients to tertiary referral centres following care at Barts Health in line with agreed timelines. 
•    Working with clinical staff to improve processes for admission, patient flow within the Trust and patient discharge procedures. 

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.