Forensic Patient Flow and Capacity Practitioner
| Posting date: | 02 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | £49,387.00 to £56,515.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49387.00 - £56515.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2026 |
| Location: | Prestwich, M25 3BL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9437-26-0452 |
Summary
This includes the triage and management of all forensic referrals for forensic inpatient and forensic community services, resource allocation, forensic bed management, patient flow, integrated discharge planning, and monitoring of OAPs in collaboration with the operational manager for SCFT. Participating in and attend the Referrals and Admissions Panel which ratifies all recommendations for admission to AFS forensic inpatient beds. Manage, monitor, and prioritise patients on the waiting list for admission based on clinical presentation. Establish the care pathway and core interventions for patients admitted to AFS. Identify discharge pathways at the point of admission, working with clinical teams to ensure that the length of a service users admissions is appropriate to their level of need and associated risk. To ensure assessments and outcomes are competed within national guidelines and timescales, including outcome letters. To ensure the AFS referrals tracker is maintained and up to date alongside admin colleagues. To communicate decisions with referring teams and ensure all outcomes are appropriately documented on the clinical database. To have oversight of reporting to the LPC regarding admissions, discharges and referral activity. Provide the oversight of the predicted care pathway of all inpatients including OAPs and challenge MDTs in the delivery of the care pathway to reduce unnecessary delay and ensure smooth delivery of care to progress to discharge. Provide expert advice on flow and process design that support a seamless patient journey integrating specialist forensic pathways which integrate national and local policy. Develop and implement guidance, plans, processes, and policies applying a project management approach where appropriate, to achieve ensure compliance with relevant guidance and standards and apply identified good practice about referral management, bed management, patient pathways and discharge. Ensure systems are in place to embed agreed key performance indicators and the development of data capture to ensure their measurement and delivery. Supported by Service Manager/Operational Manager assist in the preparation of, operational plans and/or contingency plans for specific events in conjunction with SLT and the Head of Emergency Planning. To undertake complex assessments for patients that may require secure care or are in secure care working collaboratively with service users and their families. Interpret this information and make recommendations to the multidisciplinary teams and involved agencies. Identify discharge pathways at point of admission, and work with clinical teams to ensure that the length of a service users admission is appropriate to their level of need and associated risk. Develop and plan complex admission and discharge plans within specialist area being responsive to rapidly changing circumstances. Attend professional meetings, inpatient reviews of all OAP placements and clinical team meetings as required. Lead on and chair weekly patient flow meeting and support critical oversight of assessments. Participate in the on-call rota.