Bed Manager

Job in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1, England, UK

Listing for: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-18

Job specializations:

Healthcare
Emergency Medicine

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 40000 GBP Yearly GBP 40000.00 YEAR

To identify and coordinate the allocation of a beds for patients needing an inpatient admission as a result of a mental health crisis or planned acute admission and ensure safe and appropriate transfers.
To monitor patient flow across all inpatient sites understanding the demand within the community and Crisis caseloads, enabling a streamlined approach to admissions and discharge.
To be the main point of contact during some evenings and weekends to ensure that beds are appropriately managed and allocated as clinically indicated.
Identify those patients that are placed on non-locality wards, Delayed Transfer of Care or Out of County and identify those that are pending discharge.
To communicate and negotiate effectively highly complex information on availability and appropriateness of beds across the Trust and be able to ensure that all parties understand implications and consequences of decisions.
The ability to utilise good personal skills and gain the agreement of relevant parties, particularly in relation to the admission of patients during periods of high demand.
To keep accurate documentation of all bed management referrals and record on RIO in line with Trust policy.
To repatriate outlying patients when appropriate and preferably to their locality ward and where this is not possible, monitor that they are being regularly reviewed and clinical detail updated.
Maintain an accurate bed state of all acute inpatient beds and to monitor and keep records of peak periods.

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