Patient Flow Co-ordinator - Shrewsbury, United Kingdom - Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
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Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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The Capacity Hub Patient Flow Co-ordinator will be responsible for triaging and co-ordinating flow/ admissions to our community hospitals and independent sector beds and all associated and administration functions.

Manage and maintain system and trust service reports. Maximise optimum bed occupancy and support hospital flow discharge from Acute to Community Services.

  • To be responsible for ensuring efficient and timely flow of patient
  • Accountable for preparation and distribution of accurate reports. Internal and External Bed States throughout the day from information provided by all four Community Hospitals and the pathway 2 beds within the independent sector beds as well as System Partner beds held with Local Authority and Neighbouring trusts
  • To liaise with the Inpatient wards for information regarding out of hours admissions and discharges
  • To triage referrals using agreed criteria and ascertain priority of patient referrals
  • To work with Neighbouring Acute and Community Trusts to repatriate Shropshire patients and to keep an active caseload/waiting list
  • To attend the Repatriation weekly meetings and provide updates on current caseload. To Ensure waiting list and RIO is updated
  • To work autonomously within the Capacity Hub Standard Operating Procedures, taking responsibility for bed availability and bed allocation and for allocating patients to appropriate beds using sound knowledge of the admission process and Trust and Government target
  • Liaise appropriately with all members of the Divisional and Operational Teams to ensure optimum use of bed capacity within the Trus


Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too.

These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.


Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve.

Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
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