# Clinical Flow Co-ordinator > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-flow-co-ordinator/a30e9979-dc10-42d7-ae1d-e071d35f7b07 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-flow-co-ordinator/a30e9979-dc10-42d7-ae1d-e071d35f7b07.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Great Ormond Street Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Coordinator (discipline unspecified) - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-09T09:32:54.761Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital_Children_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Operations/Clinical_Operations-v8266184 - **Employer website:** https://www.gosh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Strong clinical practice with the ability to utilise clinical knowledge to complete duties - Able to make safe and sound judgements based on clinical knowledge and professional standards - Highly effective and adaptive communication skills both verbal and written - Able to facilitate and provide a clinical voice to influence best practice - Strong organisation and prioritisation skills and able to organise own workload and deliver high standard of work within time frame and conflicting priorities - Able to interpret and analyse data relevant duties - Able to write reports, identify findings and document appropriate judgement and actions - Able to investigate and address complaints and issues of service performance - Able to build and gain credibility and influence key stakeholders, including influencing clinical practice changes where appropriate - Able to de-escalate high stress situations sensitively and professionally ### GOSH Values **Essential** - GOSH Values ### Qualifications **Essential** - NMC Registered Nurse (within appropriate branch) or HCPC Registered Allied Health Professional - Masters’ level qualification in nursing or health related field or equivalent demonstrable working experience - Evidence of commitment to continuous professional development **Desirable** - Postgraduate level qualification (diploma or advanced training) ### Experience / Knowledge **Essential** - Relevant extensive working clinical experience as a nurse/or practitioner - Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams to advise on best practice and influence decision making - Experience in working within an efficient team - Experience of using evidence based tools to shape decision making - Expert knowledge of clinical policies, processes, guidance and best practice both locally and nationally - Knowledge and understanding of the NHS Model Discharge Pathway - Experience of implementing change and improvement initiatives - Working knowledge in using operational tools and systems involved with providing care metrics: EPIC, Safe Care, Safer Nursing Care Tool (SNCT) etc.. - Extensive knowledge of infection control protocols and needs for different patient demographics **Desirable** - Experience in working within patient flow, discharge performance and capacity management ## Documents - [our gosh values (pdf, 516.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3097) - [staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 108.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2815) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 1.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10598915) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.