Inpatient Placement Sister; XR

The Patient Flow and Discharge Lead plays a pivotal role in ensuring safe,effective, and timely movement of patients through the hospital system. This position provides senior clinical leadership to optimise bed utilisation,reduce delays, and support high quality discharge planning across multidisciplinary teams. Working closely with ward staff, operational managers, community partners, and social care, the postholder acts as a keydecisionmaker in coordinating patient journeys from admission to discharge.

Leading daily patient flow coordination:
Overseeing bed management, escalation processes, and realtime capacity monitoring to maintain safe patient flow.

Driving safe and timely discharge planning:
Ensuring discharge pathways are identified early, barriers are removed, and patients receive appropriate onward care.

Providing senior clinical leadership:
Supporting nursing teams with complex discharge decisions, risk assessments, and clinical prioritisation.

Collaborating across multidisciplinary teams:
Working with medical teams, therapists,social workers, and community services to streamline patient journeys.

Monitoring performance and quality metrics:
Using data to identify delays, improve processes, and contribute to operational planning.

Supporting escalation and site management:
Acting as a key contact during periods ofhigh demand, contributing to site meetings and operational decision making.

Championingpatientcentred care:
Ensuring patients and families are informed, involved,and supported throughout the discharge process.

Ourvalues are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see thisas a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by ourstaff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five valuesare:
Patient-centred, Collaborative, Fair, Accountable, Empowered. All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.

Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to thispost:

Commitment to support, uphold and demonstrate the core values and behaviours of LTHT

Commitment to delivering high quality compassionate evidence based care, in accordance with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) policies and guidelines

Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary team

Commitment to the clinical area, valuing the contribution of all team members,encouraging a positive and creative working environment.

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The Patient Flow and Discharge Lead is responsible for coordinating safe,effective, and timely patient movement throughout the hospital. Thepostholder provides senior clinical leadership to optimise bed utilisation,reduce delays, and ensure high quality discharge planning. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, they support operationaldecisionmaking and champion patient centred care across all pathways.

Tohave responsibility for facilitating, enabling and supporting interdisciplinary decision making in order to achieve optimal patient flowsand utilisation of available resources across all relevant hospital sites.

To actively manage patient flows by designing, implementing and maintaining processes that safely expedite patient placement and discharge.

The jobholder is responsible for the timely and appropriate placement of patients requiring admission to the Trusts bed base and for the escalation procedure from A&E.

The jobholder is responsible for facilitating timely elective and acute admissions to appropriate areas and to facilitate the timely discharge and admission of patients from critical care to the ward areas.

Ensuring early identification of discharge needs and supporting wards to plan proactively.

Facilitating complex discharges, working with social care, community teams, and external partners.

Removing barriers to discharge by coordinating actions across clinical and nonclinical teams.

Promoting safe, patient centred discharge processes aligned with national guidance andlocal pathways.

The jobholder will manage a team of Band 3 and Band 4 Discharge and Patient Flow Co-ordinators with the support of the Senior Patient Flow and Discharge Sister.

The jobholder will act as a role model for high standards and provide expert clinical advice to support decision making around patient flow and discharge.

• Significant Post registration experience at Staff Nurse level or equivalent
• Staff Management
• Change Management
• Service Development

• Registered Nurse (Level
  1) or Equivalent
• Degree

• Influencing and…