Out of Hours Clinical Co-ordinator

An opportunity has become available to join our Out of Hours Clinical Co-ordinator Team. This service has now been running for several years and has been identified as a key service to address the reduced number of senior clinicians available out of hours.

The role will work across a wide range of services including acute inpatient, PCDU, CRHT’s, Older adults, CAMHS to provide professional support and advice and to also be a point of contact for external agencies such as ULHT, police, emergency duty team and the LPFT on-call manager and executive on-call.

A key purpose of the service is to provide a senior onsite manager to support clinical staff.

To coordinate out of hours admissions, both in county and out of county

Work with in hours managers to ensure staffing levels are appropriate across clinical teams with the staffing resource being used most effectively.

To support services with out of hours clinical leadership and advice on a wide range of issues, such as bed management, staffing, admission reduction and to ensure that delivery of effective patient care continues during the night working hours and weekends. This is a role that will cover a 365 day per year support service across trust wide inpatient wards.

The post holder will act as Bronze Command for LPFT.

To ensure that a senior clinician is available 24/7 to provide clinical leadership and decision making.

To ensure cost effective use of resources and ensuring admissions are appropriate and purposeful

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Provide senior leadership & provide Bronze Command/ delegated authority to act

Act as the senior clinician out of hours to manage highly complex and challenging clinical scenarios and provide clinical support to aid decision making

Support all wards in LPFT & manage staffing short falls in out of hours. Co-ordinate movement of staff if required

Support the admission to discharge process across the wards to facilitate bed flow

Act as a point of liaison with ULHT and LCC out of hours for routine issues

Oversee the acuity and occupancy of the wards during the night & weekend period

Ensure ALL bed capacity within the division is explored before consideration given to Out Of Area (OOA)

Receive the OOA request form and authorise if appropriate

Allocate in county beds, arrange transfers and manage acquisition of out of county beds should they be required

Manage and triage need around secure patient transport

To receive information about any patient incidents e.g. absconded, assaults

Act as a point of liaison with on call consultants

Oversee the acuity and occupancy of the wards during the night & weekend period

Support the handover process of the most challenging patients between shifts and offer support and advice in the management of those with complex presentations

Manage the Section 140 bed requests

This person will be the only person who has the authority to call the On Call Manager if they are unable to resolve issues locally