Bed Manager

Overview

An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen to join the Community Hospital Inpatient Bed Management team based at Maidstone Hospital.

Community hospitals provide a range of comprehensive healthcare services for patients over the age of 18, but mainly older, frailer individuals. The units predominantly provide rehabilitation and end of life support for palliative patients and their families.

Patients are referred to the ward either from the acute setting to allow a further period of rehabilitation and assessment or directly from home via their GP or local community nursing teams. The Bed management team are responsible for triaging patients and allocating them to the most appropriate bed and location. Whilst there is no direct patient care it’s important that you understand the role of a Ward Band 6 and the responsibilities they have when they care for our patients.

• Address challenges related to bed availability, patient flow, and resource allocation
• Oversee and optimize patient flow within the Community Hospitals, ensuring efficient bed utilisation and timely admissions and discharges.
• Coordinate admissions, discharges, and internal transfers to maintain optimal bed occupancy and facilitate timely patient movement.
• Liaising with clinical teams, other departments, and external organisations to ensure smooth patient flow and effective communication
• Monitoring bed occupancy, identifying trends, and generating reports to support decision-making and process improvement.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Amanda Gibson

Job title:

Head of Service for Transfer of Care (West Kent) Email address: