Overview
Post Title:
Clinical Nurse Manager 2 - Patient Flow
Post Status:
Permanent
Department:
Patient Flow
Location:
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9
Reports to:
Clinical Nurse Manager 3
Salary:
Appointment will be made on CNM 2 Payscale (€60,854 - €76,897) at a point in line with Government pay policy
Hours of work:
Full time, 37.5 Hours per week
Closing Date:
Monday 19th May 2025 @ 12noon
Please note the hospital reserves the right to close the competition early should a substantial number of applications be received.
Position Summary:
The Patient Flow Managers role is to coordinate the overall patient flow process effectively, minimising delays and supporting discharge. He/she will work with all departments, maximising patient throughput and utilisation of available hospital beds and also ensuring all beds available to the hospital in other facilities (off site) are utilised in the most efficient and effective manner. The Patient flow manager will be responsible for the coordination of all patients discharge including complex discharges, using pathways such as the Long term care process.
Responsibilities
Key Tasks:
1. To support egress and flow of patients that are admitted in the emergency department directly to the ward.
2. To maintain an accurate and timely knowledge of bed availability using the “Visual Hospital” lean methodology. To ensure real-time patient discharge is recorded and beds assigned for patient care in accordance with hospital policies.
3. To manage the split of urgent/emergency and scheduled care to effect the daily placement of unscheduled and scheduled admissions efficiently.
4. To work with appropriate members of Interdisciplinary teams inclusive but not exhaustive of medical, health & social care professionals along with nursing staff to ensure safe admission and discharge of all patients.
5. Proactive case management of all patients discharge in accordance with the complex discharge policy, including LTC process and HSS process management to ensure efficient flow throughout the hospital.
6. Liaise closely with community, medical teams, nursing & hospital management in relation to performance indicators such as core occupancy, delayed discharges, length of stay analysis.
7. To collaborate with management information systems in collating data on the frequency of peaks and troughs of bed usage etc. in order that the hospital management can be better informed and work towards more effective bed utilisation, planning of theatre lists and other services demands.
8. Perform such other duties appropriate to the office that may be required from time to time.
The above Job Description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time ensuring cross cover for other areas including operational patient flow anddevelopment of the Patient flow team.
Qualifications
Selection Criteria:
Selection criteria outline the qualifications, skills, knowledge and/or experience that the successful candidate would need to demonstrate for successful discharge of the responsibilities of the post.
Applications will be assessed on the basis of how well candidates satisfy these criteria.
Mandatory:
1. Statutory Registration, Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc(a) Eligible applicants will be those who on the closing date for the competition:(i) Are registered in the relevant division of the Register of Nurses & Midwivesmaintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI] (BordAltranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann) or entitled to be so registered.(ii) Have at least 5 years post registration experience (or an aggregrate of 5 yearsfulltime post registration experience) of which 2 years must be in the specialityor related area.(iii) Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly dischargethe functions of the role.(iv) Candidates must demonstrate evidence of continuous professional development.(b) Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability including a high standard ofsuitability and clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge thefunctions of the role.
2. Annual registration(i) On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the relevantdivision of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the Nursing andMidwifery Board of Ireland (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).(ii) Confirm annual registration with NMBI to the HSE by way of the annual PatientSafety Assurance Certificate (PSAC).3. HealthCandidates for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable ofundertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate areasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.
4. CharacterCandidates for and any person holding the office must be of good character.
DesirableA management course is desirable.
Further Information for Candidates:
Supplementary information:
The Hospital
www.beaumont.ie
Management Unit:
www.beaumont.ie/hr
Other (Please specify):
Informal Enquiries ONLY to: (No applications will be accepted through this email address):
Name:
Elaine Bradley
Title:
Head of Patient Flow
Email address:
elainebradley@beaumont.ie
Telephone:
017977762
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