Associate Director of Flow and Bed Optimisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Are you able to combine strategic thinking, operational experience and change management skills to make a real difference to mental health service provision?
Would you like a leadership role where you can design and implement new ways of working, using your knowledge and skills to energise and empower staff teams?
If you can answer yes to both of the questions above then we've got a great job opportunity for you. The Associate Director of Flow and Bed Optimisation will be the lead role responsible for the strategic development and day-to-day management of a bed flow team. You will be expected to take forward a programme of work to ensure that mental health beds are allocated effectively and people are discharged safely and quickly - ensuring good bed flow. You will be expected to ensure that people can access beds locally and minimise the use of beds outside of Surrey. You will support our work as we build new hospitals - and will work alongside other hospital providers - ensuring that the patient experience is of a high quality for every bed that we use.
You will have oversight of a team, and will be directly managing some team members as well as working with a wide range of hospital and community teams to implement new ways of working. Therefore, you will be a fantastic communicator and able to influence and motivate people.
Main duties of the job
The role will be a lead role responsible for the strategic development and day-to-day management of a bed flow team.
The role will lead on the development and implementation of streamlined processes to provide insight on demand and capacity to enable close monitoring to ensure that service users are accessing the right care, at the right time and in the right place in line with nationally and locally defined targets. This role will lead work with key stakeholders across the Trust (and with partner agencies) to develop and implement streamlined processes to monitor, report and track patients throughout their pathway, identifying and addressing potential breaches where possible and escalating them where appropriate. It will ensure that data is validated throughout the patient journey and inputted into local systems. It will take the lead on coordinating across the Trust, both national and local access targets - particularly with regard to OAPS reduction. This role will ensure that any developed processes are embedded within operational teams - guiding, leading and supporting others to optimise bed flow.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters level education or equivalent relevant experience in the management of complex pathway processes and hospital flow.
Experience
* Substantial recent experience in a management/lead role in optimising flow within complex planned and unplanned care pathways.
* Clinical experience - and credibility to lead people with clinical qualifications and backgrounds.
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.
Employer name
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Surrey and Borders NHS Partnership Foundation Trust
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