Senior Clinical Coordinator

Job overview

• The post holder will support the Lead Nurse (Patient Pathway Co-ordinator Team) to work across professional boundaries to ensure appropriate national and local strategic and operational service objectives and standards are met.
• The Senior Clinical Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day to day running of the clinical coordinator team whilst providing and maintaining high quality clinical care for patients. They will also be responsible for providing specialist advice, support and expertise to ward teams as required.  This will include participation in the Trust Emergency Response Team to cardiac arrest and other emergencies.
• Provide senior support to manage the Trust’s bed capacity over a 24-hour period, ensuring all emergency and elective admission processes meet both related national targets, local and national patient pathways and quality standards.
• The Senior Clinical Coordinator will rotate across all four of the OUH sites and deputise in the absence of the Lead Nurse.
• The post will require engagement, negotiation and collaborative working with a range of professional groups and stakeholders, both within and outside the organisation. This will be achieved by demonstrating sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from peers or line manager when appropriate.

Main duties of the job

Managerial and professional leadership  of the service and team

Oversight of Clinical Care Standards

Responsibility for Business planning , Financial Management and Human Resource Management

The operational team   consist  of   40  staff working a cross  all  4 sites of the organisation  providing Operational Management  cover 24/7 .  The  responsibilities  of the  team cover both  site  and bed management.

The team works closely with  key individuals across the Trust from ward staff  and Matrons through to the Duty Executive and externally with key  healthcare partners across Oxfordshire , the neighbouring counties and UK.

The role is  everchanging  and diverse , No two days are the same and there are always learning opportunities.

We are looking for individuals who have the ability to  problem solve, decision make , negotiate and  are able to think laterally in a fast paced environment with multiple challenges.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Be responsible for the admission of emergency patients through the ED, SEU, Clinics and other identified admitting areas, to ensure appropriate placement of patients according to their clinical need and safety.
• Monitor the trigger factors associated with, and when necessary implement the Trust’s Bed Escalation Strategy in order to minimise bed crisis through effective planning. To co-ordinate the Trust’s response to patients who are likely to exceed the national ED standards as set out in the NHS plan.
• To monitor and facilitate actions to ensure national and local developments for Government Targets are met, including 4 hour standard, single sex accommodation, 18 and 52 week pathways.
• Advise the operational team on admission, discharge and patient flow issues. In the event of limited capacity, negotiate the opening of closed beds for patient placement ensuring patient safety remains a priority at all times.
• To maintain real time accurate bed state, monitoring actual and potential occupancy at all times.
• Contribute to the required daily collection of data and analyse information on closed/vacant beds, patient admission/discharge, emergency attendance, delayed transfer of care patients and key trust performance targets.
• In conjunction with clinical staff, co-ordinate the elective admission process out of hours, reconciling the demand for optimal activity and bed occupancy and meeting of the Trust targets with the need to provide sufficient capacity for emergency admissions. Be responsible for ensuring that quality care is maintained and that the Trust is able to provide a robust response to emerging issues.
• Communicate with other Trusts regarding Bed Status and Alert Status and proactively monitor and assist wards in the repatriation of patients back to their accepting hospitals.

• Manage and co-ordinate any critical incident which occurs within the Trust’s four sites in line with the Major Incident Policy.

• Participate in and co-ordinate the Trust’s emergency response teams to Fire, Security Alerts, Cardiac Arrest and other clinical emergencies, and to be responsible for the co-ordination of first line management of major and serious untoward incidents as required.

• Provide accurate information to external organisations such as Police and Ambulance Service and liaise with the media office team.

• Allocate the pool bank nurses and redeploy nurses within the Trust to align resources to workload to agreed Safe Staffing numbers for each ward/department.

• Be responsible for ensuring the Duty Manager/Duty Executive is briefed of untoward Incidents and situations.