Clinical Team Lead - Patient Flow | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

We are pleased to have an exciting opportunity in a newly created role for 12 months within the CPFT Operations Hubs. The role will be centred around the early identification, recognition and assessment for patient flow within the three Intermediate Care services. With a focus on internal constraints to patient flow, working alongside services to embed robust processes to support patient flow. The post holder will be a member of the Operations Hub working effectively with the three Intermediate Care Services (Intermediate Care at home, Intermediate Care in a Care Home & Intermediate Care in an In-patient rehab ward) to deliver quality patient flow services. There is a specific focus on the internal processes, including red to green, long length of stay and internal constraints to optimising patient flow. The post holder will deliver and establish effective multi-disciplinary working within the Intermediate Care Services, this will include:

• overseeing the smooth running of the discharge process
• delays in all elements of the discharge process
• long length of stay
• clinical audit
• standards and outcomes for patients
• other quality aspects of patient flow.
• To proactively work alongside the Intermediate Care Services to focus on the internal patient flow journey
• Provide advice and support to the wider members of the Intermediate Care Services and Multi-Disciplinary teams
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.,
• Take a lead role in re invigorating the red to green daily process across the Intermediate Care Services, including data collection
• Sharing best practice across the Intermediate Care Services for internal patient flow process
• Responsible for ensuring that no patients are on the Stranded Patient Tracker list (PTL) due to internal reasoning
• Escalating concerns and constraints
• Clear, succinct and precise documentation in patient records