Band 7 Patient Flow Manager
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Edgbaston, B15 2SY
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
10 September 2026
6 days left
Job description
Are you looking for your next exciting challenge? Are you an experienced frontline leader and passionate about inclusivity? Are you a value based lead...
As a Patient Flow Manager, you will be responsible to coordinates safe, timely, and effective discharge from hospital or inpatient care back to the community or another care setting.
Key responsibilities usually include
- Planning discharge early by identifying patient needs, risks, barriers, and expected discharge dates.
- Coordinating professionals such as doctors, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, community teams, housing, and voluntary services.
- Ensuring safe aftercare by arranging follow-up appointments, medication, care packages, equipment, transport, and community support.
- Managing complex discharges, including safeguarding concerns, homelessness, mental health needs, capacity issues, and delayed transfers of care.
- Supporting communication with patients, families, carers, ward teams, and external agencies.
- Reducing delays by escalating barriers, tracking discharge progress, and ensuring actions are completed.
- Maintaining governance and documentation, including discharge plans, risk assessments, referrals, and escalation records.
- Section 117 Aftercare responsibilities, helps ensure that discharge is clinically safe, legally compliant, and aligned with care planning requirements such as CPA, safeguarding, Mental Health Act considerations, section 117 aftercare where relevant, and effective liaison with community mental health services.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details for further details.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Admission / Discharge experience
- RMHN/RLDN Degree level Qualification
- Knowledge of Services in the Patient Care Pathway
Desirable
- System working - ICB, Ambulance, Police and other professionals
- Working within the Acute and Urgent care Environment
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act in Urgent/Acute Care
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
1 September 2026
Last checked
3 September 2026
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