Employer: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Leicester Royal Infirmary
Town: Leicester
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59
Clinical Navigator Nurse, Bed Bureau
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are actively promoting flexible working options, helping you to manage a work/life balance.
Job overview
Are you a registered nurse with clinical skills in emergency admissions?
This exciting new role will work in the Bed Bureau service, providing rapid admissions for patients from the community to the right place first time.
The team will be based at the LRI but covering all admissions areas across UHL. It's a developing and expanding role with the possibility for further development and expansion of the team.
Main duties of the job
1. To co-ordinate and facilitate the effective admission of patients from the community to clinical areas in the trust, building a good working relationship with ambulatory and non-ambulatory emergency care settings such as GPAU, SAU, CDU, GAU, Urology, and ENT.
2. To support the bed bureau non-clinical team in managing timely admissions to clinical areas, ensuring that admissions to hospitals are in a timely manner.
3. To work flexibly in the bed bureau team and at times have a clinical role in the Emergency department to maintain clinical skills.
4. Maintain clinical knowledge to enable the ability to work on the emergency floor on an allocation basis between different ambulatory areas across the Emergency Department and Floor supporting the flow of patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Work within the financial budget allocated to your specialty, in collaboration with the line manager, General Manager, and Head of Nursing.
2. Promote improvements in quality and clinical effectiveness within resource constraints.
3. Deliver any relevant clinics for your service, to meet performance targets within specialty.
4. Co-ordinate, prioritise, facilitate, and monitor the delivery of care to patients under the care of the bed bureau.
5. Act as a professional and clinical role model to all staff, patients, carers, and the public at all times.
6. Supervise the performance standards of own team members and, in the absence of the Ward/Unit Manager, other nursing staff within the ward.
7. Assist with and deputise for the Ward/Unit Manager in the management and organisation of the ward.
8. Maximise use of clinical and staff resources, implementing best practice in patient flow, admission, and discharge arrangements.
9. Promote the development of new services within the ward area and assist the Ward/Unit Manager in implementing change.
10. Act in a professional manner and ensure self and ward staff adhere to the UHL Uniform policy at all times.
11. Ensure that the delivery of care to own patients and for all patients when in charge meets the standards determined by the Ward/Unit Manager and the Standards for Better Health.
12. Share responsibility with the Ward/Unit Manager to ensure that the highest standards of infection prevention and control are practiced at all times.
13. Contribute to the development of CMG and Trust policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines and ensure compliance of self and others.
Person specification
Nursing experience
* Registered nurse with emergency/admissions experience
* Band 6
* ED experience
* Post-registration ongoing study
* ED/TRIAGE TRAINED
* Evidence of ward/department management
* Can demonstrate the ability to make management decisions
Additional Information
Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.
UHL is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds who match our job criteria.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
UHL is committed to helping colleagues balance the demands of both their work and personal needs through flexible working arrangements wherever reasonably practicable and subject to service needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be deducted from your salary over a three-month period commencing on your first month's payment.
The current price of a check is £38 for an enhanced and £18 for a standard check.
Covid-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues, and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We therefore continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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