Patient flow co ordinator

Patient Flow Coordinator

Closing date: 1 February 2026. Shift: 08:00-16:00, Mon‑Fri.

Support patient flow and discharge management within ward department, ensuring timely coordinated discharges and effective communication among multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders.

• Optimise patient flow to improve bed availability and reduce delays.
• Manage safe and timely discharges across Pathways 1, 2, and 3.
• Provide essential MDT support by coordinating discussions and decision‑making.
• Facilitate Best Interest Meetings (BIM) to ensure patient‑centred discharge planning.
• Maintain momentum of discharge planning throughout the entire process and support other MDT members.
• Develop and maintain productive integrated working relationships with social service and community healthcare colleagues.
• Co‑ordinate timely assessment and safe transfer or discharge of people from the ward department.

• Demonstrated willingness & capability to undertake NVQ level 3.
• Demonstrable experience in hospital setting working at NVQ level 2.
• Reputation for high standard of patient care.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 November 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services, including an award‑winning stroke facility.

Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single‑site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.