NHS
3139 - Discharge and Patient Flow Matron
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Job Description
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- Current professional and health service priorities
- Professional nursing agenda
- Clinical governance and patient safety agendas
- Health and safety
- Confidentiality
- Safeguarding knowledge
- Working knowledge and understanding of NHS targets and other topical NHS issues
- In around 100 words please describe what Equality & Diversity means to you and why they are important.
- In around 100 words please describe how you ensure you build and sustain positive working relationships within a team.
- Proven track record of delivering high standards of care
- Coaching/facilitation/reassurance
- Staff development/empowerment
- Mediation and negotiation
- Demonstrable influencing/inspiring
- Change management/decision making skills
- Demonstrable problems solving
- Proven leadership qualities
- Ability to manage complex and competing issues
- Develop action plans and able to set standards
- Flexibility
- Able to deliver formal presentations
- IT skills
- Ability to write reports/papers as required
- Excellent communication skills including negotiation with proven ability to liaise effectively within a multi-disciplinary based environment
- Able to make clinical judgments from caller information and evaluate alternative courses of action. Capable of making decision based on the evaluation of a range of options
- Ability to work under pressure and devise innovative solutions
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to communicate contentious information and deal with challenging behaviour in a non challenging manner
- Able to manage personal stress
- Well motivated and able to motivate others
- Ability to deliver work and deliver to timescales
- Extensive experience of working at a senior level of Band 7 or above within nursing/midwifery
- Experience of managing a team
- Demonstrable experience of leading change and problem solving
- Experience of managing operational change while also developing and maintaining high standards of quality
- Experience of discharge planning, complex discharge, social issues
- Experience of working across social care systems
- Ability to work in partnership with the multi-disciplinary teams in acute Trusts and primary care sector
- 1st level Registered Nurse
- Demonstrate a current in depth knowledge of the national nursing agenda
- Teaching qualification or demonstrable evidence of equivalent relevant experience
- Educated to degree level
- Masters level qualification in health related subject or demonstrates knowledge and practice at masters level through evidence of experience in senior nursing role
- Current professional and health service priorities
- Professional nursing agenda
- Clinical governance and patient safety agendas
- Health and safety
- Confidentiality
- Safeguarding knowledge
- Working knowledge and understanding of NHS targets and other topical NHS issues
- In around 100 words please describe what Equality & Diversity means to you and why they are important.
- In around 100 words please describe how you ensure you build and sustain positive working relationships within a team.
- Proven track record of delivering high standards of care
- Coaching/facilitation/reassurance
- Staff development/empowerment
- Mediation and negotiation
- Demonstrable influencing/inspiring
- Change management/decision making skills
- Demonstrable problems solving
- Proven leadership qualities
- Ability to manage complex and competing issues
- Develop action plans and able to set standards
- Flexibility
- Able to deliver formal presentations
- IT skills
- Ability to write reports/papers as required
- Excellent communication skills including negotiation with proven ability to liaise effectively within a multi-disciplinary based environment
- Able to make clinical judgments from caller information and evaluate alternative courses of action. Capable of making decision based on the evaluation of a range of options
- Ability to work under pressure and devise innovative solutions
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to communicate contentious information and deal with challenging behaviour in a non challenging manner
- Able to manage personal stress
- Well motivated and able to motivate others
- Ability to deliver work and deliver to timescales
- Extensive experience of working at a senior level of Band 7 or above within nursing/midwifery
- Experience of managing a team
- Demonstrable experience of leading change and problem solving
- Experience of managing operational change while also developing and maintaining high standards of quality
- Experience of discharge planning, complex discharge, social issues
- Experience of working across social care systems
- Ability to work in partnership with the multi-disciplinary teams in acute Trusts and primary care sector
- 1st level Registered Nurse
- Demonstrate a current in depth knowledge of the national nursing agenda
- Teaching qualification or demonstrable evidence of equivalent relevant experience
- Educated to degree level
- Masters level qualification in health related subject or demonstrates knowledge and practice at masters level through evidence of experience in senior nursing role
Job summary
Interview Date: TBC
An opportunity has arisen in the Patient Flow and Discharge Team to recruit a Discharge Matron to support the Discharge and Patient Flow teams.
Effective patient flow and timely and safe discharge is crucial to patients and families and in supporting the Trust in maintaining quality and performance standards.
The successful post holder will be dynamic and support discharge and flow initiatives and processes to ensure patients at BHNFT experience the best possible care in terms of placement and discharge. They will support the Nurse Manager for Patient Flow in managing the existing teams and help to educate and support the wider teams in terms of discharge.
The successful candidate will be expected to support the implementation of the new patient flow system (TeleTracking) and continue with the initiative moving forward.
Main duties of the job
The candidate will maintain a high standard of work and lead and support discharges processes throughout the Trust.
They will support the Discharge Team and CBUs in ensuring that patient discharge is safe, timely and effective and highlight areas that can be improved to support this.
They will work closely with partners to ensure the highest possible standards of care in terms of discharge for the Barnsley population.
They will lead and support the implementation of the new Patient Flow System (Teletracking).
About us
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close a position early.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing Trust achieving a Good rating in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment and achieving significant progress in the delivery of our strategic objectives. We are proud of the commitment of our staff to ensuring a strong and sustainable future for this organisation which is highly valued by our local communities.
There has never been a better time to join Barnsley Hospital. It is moving at pace and a we can do this attitude is evident right through the organisation, where staff are engaged for change and committed to being part of the journey to sustainability and growth.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and fair treatment to all applicants regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, mental or physical disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, age or offending history.
The cost of the DBS (criminal records check) for Band 6 and above roles only will be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.
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Date posted
01 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year pro/rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
C9163-3139E-05-25
Job locations
Pogmoor Road
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S75 2EP
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Job responsibilities
Job Description for Patient Flow and Discharge Matron
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
Supporting Documents
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Job responsibilities
Job Description for Patient Flow and Discharge Matron
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
Supporting Documents
Please refer to the values-based recruitment guidance and associated documentation.
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Qualifications
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Knowledge and Awareness
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Trust Values
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Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Pogmoor Road
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S75 2EP
Employer's website
https://www.barnsleyhospital.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Pogmoor Road
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S75 2EP
Employer's website
https://www.barnsleyhospital.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.