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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (rostered long days - 7 day week service)
Job ref
197-HF7138
Employer
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Town
Woolwich
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum plus HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/08/2025 23:59

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust logo

UEC Flow Coordinator

Band 7

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over  staying comfortable; Listening  over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Are you passionate about delivering excellent patient care ensuring we treat the patient in the right place at the right time, and looking for a fresh challenge? 

If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and dynamic registered nurse  to work as a  Flow coordinator across urgent and emergency care to join our Ward 22/23 team. 

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is launching a new clinical model across our Acute Medicine and Acute Frailty services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in November 2025. We are seeking motivated and compassionate nurses to join our team at the heart of this transformation. 

The new model introduces four specialist units designed to deliver high-quality, efficient and patient-centred care. Staff will have the opportunity to work across all four areas, supporting development and providing broad clinical experience. These include: 

  • A dedicated Acute Assessment Unit (AAU)

  • An enhanced Acute Medical Unit (AMU)

  • A Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit 

  • An Acute Frailty Unit (AFU

This is your opportunity to shape a forward-thinking service with strong leadership, clear pathways and a commitment to development, wellbeing and collaborative working. 

If you’re ready to be part of this exciting change, apply now and help us deliver the right care, in the right setting, at the right time. 

Main duties of the job

To be a member of the QEH medicine senior team.

To provide nursing leadership and professional advice that supports and further develops the 24-hour service delivery across the Urgent and emergency care areas.

The post holder will liaise closely with ED and all other wards/departments throughout the Trust. He/she will report to the Matron for AMU but will work autonomously on a day-to-day basis.

To provide clinical expertise through the ongoing expansion and development of nursing skills, with an emphasis on clinical examination and assessment skills to meet the clinical service needs.

To lead and collaborate with the interprofessional team.

To be a leader and innovative practitioner in the implementation and achievement of European Working Time Directives.

To establish and maintain the highest standards of organisation and care delivery.

To carry out audit and research to increase knowledge, assure quality of care and evaluate the effectiveness of the service.

Responsible for the Timely flow of patients both through discharge and admission into the Acute assessment, acute frailty, SDEC and acute medical unit.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

  1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
  2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
  3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
  4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
  5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsibility for the management of the emergency and elective admission process across the UEC area ensuring safe and appropriate patient placement, and the achievement of related Trust targets. This requires the ability to balance the demand for an optimal level of emergency activity whilst maintaining contingency plans for emerging issues.

Responsibility for the operational management of the Trust, implementing and interpreting Policies and Procedures as required and providing support and advice.

To provide senior nursing & managerial support and advice to all clinical areas within the Trust.

To participate in and co-ordinate the Trust’s Emergency Response Teams to Major Incident alerts and to be responsible for the coordination and first line Management of Major and Serious Untoward Incidents, as required.

 

Person specification

Qualifications and experience

Essential criteria
  • Level 1 Registered Nurse with a minimum of five years post registration experience.
  • Evidence of consistent professional and educational development at an advanced level.
  • A post-registration degree in nursing, health or management related studies or equivalent with in depth operational and clinical experience.
  • Highly developed clinical and operational knowledge and experience gained through in-depth experience and study.
  • Evidence of continued education essential
Desirable criteria
  • Able to prescribe independently desirable (essential to be willing to study this module)

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an appropriate manner in challenging situations.
  • Ability to manage complex clinical and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within an organisation, in circumstances where information is often conflicting or not fully known.
  • Ability to think strategically and plan ahead.
  • Able to use IT skills in word, access and excel to aid data collection, audit etc.
  • Well developed teaching and training skills
  • Highly developed and refined clinical skills

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum of three years in an acute environment with management responsibilities.
  • Masters or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of critical care experience and a postgraduate specialist clinical course or equivalent experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.

We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tracey Toomey
Job title
Head of Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07342066993
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