Clinical Site Manager

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

The closing date is 10 March 2026

We are seeking motivated, resilient, and forward-thinking professionals to join our Site Management Team, playing a pivotal role in ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality care across the Trust -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

This is a high-profile leadership role offering the opportunity to influence patient flow, capacity management, and clinical decision-making at a Trust-wide level.

As a Site Manager, you will provide visible, responsive clinical and managerial leadership, holding accountability for service delivery and operational advice both in and out of hours.

You will lead and co-ordinate an evidence-based capacity management service, promoting a dynamic, efficient flow of patients throughout the Trust while optimising the use of capacity and maintaining an environment that supports excellent patient care.

You will be a confident decision-maker with the ability to remain calm under pressure, balancing competing priorities while maintaining patient safety and service quality. Strong communication, leadership, and escalation skills are essential, alongside a commitment to collaborative, evidence-based practice.

If you are passionate about leadership, patient flow, and delivering high-quality care at scale, we would love to hear from you.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Accountable for service delivery for the site capacity provision within the Trust

• To proactively manage Site capacity in and out of hours, ensuring that safe and effective decision making occurs to streamline the patient journey at admission, transfer and discharge.
• To provide real time capacity information to internal and external stakeholders through the provision of accurate reporting including situation reporting and escalation management systems
• To deliver professional and operational priorities from a corporate perspective
• To support senior colleagues across a spectrum of general and operational management issues aimed at managing overall capacity and patient flow.
• To maintain a leading role in the management of clinical capacity to accommodate elective and emergency admissions
• To facilitate staff and team development and ensure effective communication systems operate corporately.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire ()

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

• To ensure 24-hour provision of service, through the use of proactive site management, patient flow and capacity utilisation, in line with Trust and national guideline.
• To ensure own and Clinical Site Management Team's compliance with all Trust policies, Integrated Discharge Policy, Trust Capacity & Demand Escalation Plan, Inter-site Transfer Policy and all relevant clinical policies. When required assume the leadership role in internal incident management and Major incidents as described within key Trust Policies and procedures. Lead on incidents which impact on business continuity, service interruption, and clinical internal and external incidents and participate in additional actions which impact on the safe and efficient running of the site.
• Co-ordinate admissions via the Emergency and urgent pathways using clinical assessment skills for patient placement through various admission pathways.
• Provide Leadership and expert advice to nursing staff acting as a point of contact out of hours for professional nursing issues.
• Act as a strong advocate for…