Clinical Flow Co-ordinator

Job overview

At Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), we are dedicated to providing world-class care for seriously ill children and young people. As a Clinical Flow Coordinator, you will play a vital role in ensuring patients receive timely access to the specialist care they need, supporting patient flow across the hospital and helping to deliver outstanding operational performance.

This is an exciting opportunity for an organised, proactive and collaborative individual who thrives in a fast-paced healthcare environment and is passionate about improving the patient experience.

The Clinical Flow Coordinator is a key member of the Patient Flow Team, working closely with clinical, nursing and operational colleagues to coordinate patient movement throughout the hospital. You will support effective bed utilisation, facilitate timely admissions, transfers and discharges, and help ensure safe and efficient patient pathways.

Using real-time information and strong communication skills, you will coordinate activities across multiple departments, balancing competing priorities while maintaining a patient-centred approach.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Flow Coordinator is responsible for the safe, effective, and efficient management of inpatient bed capacity across the Trust. The post holder will utilise advanced clinical knowledge and professional judgement to ensure appropriate patient placement, optimise patient flow, support timely admissions and discharges and maintain patient safety at all times.

The role provides operational leadership for bed management, emergency and elective patient flow, escalation processes, and site coordination, ensuring the best use of available resources while supporting the delivery of high-quality patient care and organisational performance targets.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.

Applicant requirements

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.