Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?
Main area: Patient flow
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 3-4
Contract: Permanent: none
Hours: Full time - 61.5 hours per week (12 hour shifts days / nights weekends)
Job ref: 262-A-25-6919638
Site: Cumberland infirmary
Town: Carlisle
Salary: £24,071 - £29,114 Pro Rata Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
Assist in coordination of Patient Flow through bed management, utilising bed management systems to input and communicate data regarding patient flow and site management. Liaising with staff, multidisciplinary teams, GPs, patient transport and other hospitals. Utilise and develop relevant extended skills, carrying out duties with supervision where indicated. The department operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
Main duties of the job
Operational management of acute beds across the NCIC initial point of contact for all emergency and elective admissions, facilitating discharge of patients home or for continuing care into the community hospitals. Bed management coordinate emergency and elective admissions, transfer care into community, take GP referrals for emergency admissions, organise repatriation of patients from tertiary hospitals. Support the site co with all data input and output.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time':
1. Being a clinically led organisation
2. Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
3. A positive patient experience every time
4. A great place to work
5. Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Person specification
Personal Circumstances
* Positive approach to change.
Qualifications
* GCSE English and maths or equivalent.
* Essential IT skills (EITS) or equivalent.
* NVQ 3 in care or equivalent IT.
* Short courses or relevant experience to diploma level.
Knowledge & Experience
* Working with members of the general public.
* Use of a computer.
* NHS employment, including patient flow.
* Demonstration of continuing learning.
* Confidentiality.
* Equality issues.
* Work in a health / social sector.
Skills and Aptitudes
* Good communication, empathy and interpersonal skills where there may be barriers to understanding.
* Ability to work as a member of a team, without close supervision.
* Ability to use initiative appropriately within a team.
* Able to prioritise work to meet deadlines.
* Excellent organisational skills.
* Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care.
Other requirements
* Equality and Diversity (from KSF core dimension 6- one to be selected)
* Act in ways that support equality and value diversity (Level 1)
* Flexibility.
* Willing to continue development of extended role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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