Bed Manager

· Act as a central point for all enquiries relating to bed management across children's services · Ensure that the child and family's experience of hospital is as smooth as possible by facilitating patient flow throughout Children's Services for both elective and emergency admissions. · Ensure that emergency, elective and tertiary referrals are given equal consideration, working with clinicians to decide on priorities when beds are at a premium. · Work closely with the Elective Access Team to ensure the best use is made of all available resources · Ensure effective use of the beds across the Children's Hospital, PICU, PHDU and the Neonatal Unit. · Assist with discharge activity working closely with nursing and medical staff. · Use the electronic whiteboard to maintain 4 hr access targets. · Provide direction to and support for clinical staff on a day to day basis in any matters relating to bed management e.g. repatriation and transportation · To co-ordinate, on behalf the Directorate, private patient admissions with Clinical Colleagues/Teams, Elective Access Team and Trust Private Patient Team. · To ensure the identification of overseas visitors and recovery of associated income.Main duties of the job · Act as a central point for all enquiries relating to bed management across children's services · Ensure that the child and family's experience of hospital is as smooth as possible by facilitating patient flow throughout Children's Services for both elective and emergency admissions. · Ensure that emergency, elective and tertiary referrals are given equal consideration, working with clinicians to decide on priorities when beds are at a premium. · Work closely with the Elective Access Team to ensure the best use is made of all available resources · Ensure effective use of the beds across the Children's Hospital, PICU, PHDU and the Neonatal Unit. · Assist with discharge activity working closely with nursing and medical staff. · Use the electronic whiteboard to maintain 4 hr access targets. · Provide direction to and support for clinical staff on a day to day basis in any matters relating to bed management e.g. repatriation and transportation · To co-ordinate, on behalf the Directorate, private patient admissions with Clinical Colleagues/Teams, Elective Access Team and Trust Private Patient Team. · To ensure the identification of overseas visitors and recovery of associated income., · Work with ward nursing teams to ensure that dependency, workload and staffing issues are taken into consideration when allocating beds, escalating to the relevant Matron where necessary. · Work with clinical staff to ensure that infection control issues are taken into consideration when allocating beds. · Work closely with the Elective Access Team to ensure that all elective patients are admitted in a timely manner within local and national access targets and that the most appropriate use is made of all available resources. · Minimise income lost through cancelled admissions/operations by ensuring bed availability. · Assist in the reduction of ED breaches by ensuring a timely and accurate flow of information regarding the availability of beds.

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  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.