Patient Flow Facilitator

As a Patient Flow Facilitator you will support referral management into the Patient Flow Team, prioritising admissions and ensuring patients are moved through the system in a timely way.

Provide comprehensive administrative support to the Patient Flow Team achieving effective and efficient service provision and Patient Flow. Co-ordinate and collate real time information on current and predicted bed capacity within inpatient services.

Plan and organise daily task allocation sheets to ensure the ward managers can distribute the tasks fairly to the staff. Take a lead in collating and recording information into the daily ward checklist, spreadsheet/ database ensuring that all tasks are completed for patients that are admitted before discharge.

You will work closely with registered professionals to ensure tasks are being completed in a timely manner escalating any outstanding or overdue actions to the ward sisters and consultants. Yu will organise, plan, and prioritise own workload, to be responsive to the changing needs of the service, utilising and maintaining electronic systems to support patient flow.

This is a fast paced and challenging role, working in a busy environment and within a supportive team. The ideal candidate will be a team player, motivated with a positive attitude.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible., Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed