Medicine Bronze

If you are a experienced nurse with strong leadership skills and a focus on flow and capacity we want to hear from you

The post holder will work in the Medical Division at Queen’s Medical Centre acting as the Divisional Bronze contact on a daily basis. The role has two key management functions; operational site management and managing patient flow throughout the Medicine Division. The post holder will work closely with the staff on the ward and bed managers in order to manage patient flow effectively.

The post holder will maintain a clear focus on the management of emergency patient flows, working to ensure that all emergency patients are admitted in a timely manner, based on clinical priority and balanced with the wider Trust constraints around elective patient services. The Medicine Bronze will work with the Matrons and bed managers across the Medicine Division to support the effect management of flow and capacity.

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Personal Specification documents attached to this advert.

To provide senior nursing support and advice to all clinical areas within the Medical wards and act as the point of call for these queries

To ensure the principles of patient flow allow safe and timely transfer of patients from the Emergency Department and Admission areas to the Wards in the Medicine Division

To support with line manager for bed managers and Transfer team

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) was established in 2006 and we are one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country and provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham.

NUH are, by any measure, a large, complex, person-centred organisation. With over 17,000 employees from a wide range of professional backgrounds, they are one of the region’s largest employers.
NUH has an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of their patient care and for their research, education and innovation. They have strong links to the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University. This allows for the provision of excellent training and education for their students, as well as being a major research organisation.

For information about the Trust, including business plans, annual reports, and services, visit their website.

**Main duties and responsibilities**:
Accountability for the maintenance of an accurate and contemporaneous bed states, monitoring actual/potential occupancy at all times, and to contribute to the required daily collection and analysis of data relating to bed management within the Medicine Division.

Monitoring of trigger points, and when necessary use judgement to implement the Trust’s Bed Escalation strategy, taking corrective action in order to minimise bed delays through effective planning. Coordinating the Trust response to patients who are likely to exceed the targets set out in the NHS plan.

Active management and engagement of all teams to ensure timely flow through ED and timely pull into acute beds and into specialty beds across the Medicine Division.

To provide senior nursing support and advice to all clinical areas within the Medical wards and act as the point of call for these queries

To ensure the principles of patient flow allow safe and timely transfer of patients from the Emergency Department to the Wards in the Medicine Division

To support with line manager for bed managers and Transfer team

For more details please consult the Job description and Person specification documents attached to the advert.