# Patient Flow Duty Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/patient-flow-duty-manager/1885915b-0943-4222-8809-4a2330a0a945 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/patient-flow-duty-manager/1885915b-0943-4222-8809-4a2330a0a945.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Woodfield House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical service manager, Mental health nurse, Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment 12 months) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Based on 24/7 rota) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T09:15:54.615Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Doncaster/Rotherham_Doncaster_South_Humber_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Patient_Flow_Duty_Manager/Patient_Flow_Duty_Manager-v8355305 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8355305?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.rdash.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you ready for a new and exciting stage in your career? Are you proud to make a difference and passionate about facilitating change in order to improve clinical services? At RDaSH NHS Foundation Trust we are ‘Leading the Way with Care’ through continually improving the quality of care we provide, to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our patients and their families and carers. As part of this our Patient Flow service to provides 24/7 leadership cover to work closely with our services to support effective Patient Flow leadership on a day-to-day basis. ### Main duties of the job As a Patient Flow Duty Manager, you will be expected to provide clinical leadership to ensure the coordination of flow is effectively managed across the RDaSH bed base as well as to deliver out of hours first line managerial response for any operational issues across Adult Mental Health and Older Persons services. This will include: - Working in conjunction with internal and external partners to proactively manage bed capacity in line with the Trust patient flow procedure and facilitating, enabling, and supporting inpatient services and community teams in their decision making to achieve optimal patient flow and utilisation of available resources across services - Managing Trust demands and patient flow activity by utilising clinical decision making and engaging with teams to support safe patient flow, escalating lack of capacity and breaches as necessary - Maintaining oversight to support the gatekeeping of prospective admissions, ensuring timely and appropriate placement of patients requiring admission by working in collaborative with other managers and other clinicians to facilitate and expediate complex discharge arrangements by proactive management and leadership - Co-ordinating, leading and actively engaging in patient reviews, professional’s meetings and MDTs, demonstrating support and informed decision making which will be achieved through visible clinical leadership across the inpatient wards ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications ### 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** - Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to motivate others. - Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety to stakeholders. - Ability to work with all people to embed a culture and behaviours that align to the Trust’s vision, values and strategic ambitions - Ability to analyse and present complex information to professional colleagues - Effective organisational and time management skills - Liaison, networking, negotiation and resolution skills - Information technology skills - Ability to work autonomously and meet competing demands and short deadlines - Self- motivated with excellent personal management skills **Desirable** - Performance management - Budget management ### Knowledge **Essential** - Competency in completing comprehensive mental health assessments - Current knowledge and understanding of acute mental health needs and an ability to demonstrate clinical competence - Able to clearly evidence knowledge of effective assessment risk and of risk management **Desirable** - Knowledge of data and electronic systems ### Experience **Essential** - Relevant post registration experience in adult mental health and/or older persons mental health - Up-to-date knowledge of evidence-based practice and the national agenda for mental health - Managerial/clinical leadership skills including supervising others - Sound knowledge of clinical risk assessment and formulation of risk management plans. - Experience of providing professional leadership within clinical service and multi-disciplinary team working - Experience of workload management. - Understanding of responsibilities in relation to the mental health act, mental capacity act, CPA, and safeguarding - Competency in meeting the expected performance and data quality targets for the role in a timely manner and an understanding of the importance of this **Desirable** - Experience of delegation of clinical tasks and management of team diary - Facilitation of personal development planning in others. - Experience of participation in quality improvement initiatives - Experience of undertaking an audit process and reviewing records ### Qualifications **Essential** - Professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy, at Diploma or Degree level **Desirable** - Evidence of post qualification study and personal development - Management or leadership qualification - Clinical risk management training ### Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Reliable and conscientious - Confidence in decision making - Motivated and enthusiastic - Caring approach to the role and the needs of the client - Patient and Calm in stressful situations ## Documents - [main terms and conditions (pdf, 406.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2515) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 192.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10681181) - [rdash clinical & organisational strategy - 2023 to 2028 (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2789) - [use of artificial intelligence (ai) when writing job applications (pdf, 280.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2919) ## 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. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.