Job summary
- Main area
- Bed management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-HS-35
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Wexham
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Operational Head of Capacity Wexham Park Hospital
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
Are you a senior healthcare professional with extensive clinical experience and a passion for optimising hospital flow? Do you excel in managing complex patient pathways while collaborating with system-wide partners?
We are looking for an experienced Operational Head of Site at Wexham park hospital to provide clinical leadership in managing patient flow across elective and non-elective pathways at Frimley health . This is a pivotal role in ensuring safe, effective, and timely patient movement throughout the hospital, while also working closely with system partners to improve discharge processes and capacity planning.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clinical leadership and oversight of hospital flow, ensuring the efficient management of patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
- Manage the Clinical Site Team, Specialist complex discharge and Discharge Lounge Team's, ensuring operational effectiveness and patient safety.
- Work closely with the Frimley System Discharge and Flow Lead including the collaboration of Transfer of Care Hub 'IRIS' and NHS England to align hospital flow with wider system strategies.
- Act as an outward-facing representative, collaborating with external system partners to improve capacity planning and discharge pathways across health and social care.
- Implement proactive strategies to manage bed capacity, reduce delays, and ensure safe discharge planning.
- Use clinical expertise to drive continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring high standards of care and operational efficiency.
- Provide senior decision-making support in managing site escalation and flow during times of increased demand.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and job specification for further details on the main responsibilities for this role.
Person specification
NMC Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered
- Degree in management or leadership or experience > 5 years
Desirable criteria
- Master in healthcare
Digital competance
Essential criteria
- Digital experience, Excel competent - Understanding data
- Model Health - hospital provider-level benchmarking
Desirable criteria
- Quality improvement qualification
- > 3 year experience
Understanding & Knowledge of Social care act & legal requirements
Essential criteria
- Integrated care course or experience
- Board & Panel paper
Desirable criteria
- Social care Level 5
- Experience at Panel funding for onward care funding / Continuing Healthcare funding IHF
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Yellow Belt - essential Green Belt desirable
Desirable criteria
- Green Belt
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Heidi Barber
- Job title
- Associate Director of Operational Capacity
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07990787148
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