Clinical Site Manager

Job overview

Are you and experienced RN looking for a challenging, demanding but rewarding career in one of the UK's largest hospitals?

We are looking to recruit dynamic, confident and motivated individuals to join our expanding corporate operations site team. If you are passionate, like we are about providing the best care to our patients, this position offers the right individual the opportunity to showcase and develop their leadership and operational skills.

Main duties of the job

You will take responsibility for leading the capacity team on a daily basis, facilitating patient flow  across all specialities in the trust to promote positive patient outcomes and ultimately enhancing the patient’s hospital journey. Working closely with the divisional management teams, you will support the trust to achieve both urgent care and elective quality targets.

The clinical site manager role is diverse and you will need to be flexible and adaptable in an ever changing environment, with an ability to remain composed during periods of extreme pressure

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are an essential requirement of the role, in order to develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders. Working shifts, providing 24/7 cover across both of our hospitals, you will provide out of hours senior nursing support and clinical advice to all areas within the trust and be the key responder in the event of a Critical/Major Incident.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To proactively manage the Trust operational bed capacity, ensuring that safe and effective decision making occurs across all specialties to streamline the patient journey at the point of admission, transfer and discharge.
• To provide real time capacity information to internal and external stakeholders through the provision of accurate reporting including situation reporting and escalation management systems.
• To Lead the Corporate Site Meetings, ensuring situation reports are accurately completed and plans agreed for discussion and enactment.
• To ensure Trust operational and escalation policies are followed with regard to Site Management and Operational Flow and in response to pan site incidents and escalations, this includes on site responder supporting the emergency teams for fire, security and serious adverse incidents.
• To maintain proactive, concise, accurate and timely communications to all Trust stakeholders to support planned and urgent care capacity plans.
• To support the Head of Operations/ Lead Nurse with implementation, monitoring and reporting of improvement plans designed to deliver the improved quality and effectiveness of our planned and elective access pathways.
• Site and Capacity Managers are expected to work for the clinical and business success of the Central Operations Function with regard to pathways and operational bed management and to contribute to the corporate objectives and values of the Trust with regard to patient care, quality of service and access standards.
• The post holder will be working as the Site Clinical Lead out of hours and the nature of the work involves making timely decisions in concert with clinical teams and working within a busy operational environment.