Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Site Manager
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Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced, proactive, and dynamic Clinical Site Manager to play a pivotal role in the operational and clinical management of Wexham Park Hospital. This is a key leadership position responsible for ensuring the safe and appropriate placement of emergency and elective patients, in close collaboration with medical teams and Senior Nursing staff.
A key focus of the role will be to proactively drive patient flow and maximize available capacity across Wexham Park Hospital. You will work collaboratively with clinical and operational teams to identify opportunities to improve flow, challenge barriers to capacity, and ensure that inpatient pathways are effective and responsive to demand. You will also contribute to reviewing and developing pathways to ensure the right patient is cared for in the right clinical environment and on the right ward, supporting safe, effective, and timely patient care.
This role would suit a confident and motivated clinical leader who is able to work dynamically in a fast-paced environment, influence across professional boundaries, and identify opportunities to improve patient flow, capacity, and the overall patient journey.
Please ensure you have permission from your line manager before applying for the secondment.
Main Duties of the Job
- To plan, coordinate, and manage the utilization of inpatient beds to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of emergency and elective admissions.
- Lead on the development and optimization of admission pathways, ensuring patients are admitted safely, promptly, and to the appropriate clinical area.
- Work collaboratively across organizational, clinical, and departmental boundaries to identify admission and capacity pressures, remove bottlenecks, and implement effective solutions.
- Support the Trust in achieving national performance standards and targets relating to emergency and elective access, patient flow, and timely admission.
- Develop, monitor, and review local performance indicators to assess the effectiveness of Patient Access and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Act as a key operational troubleshooter throughout the patient pathway, working with clinical and operational teams to resolve issues, improve flow, and enhance the patient experience.
- Work closely with hospital teams to ensure access, capacity, and patient flow processes are effective, timely, and coordinated.
- Provide effective day-to-day and out-of-hours operational management of the hospital site, responding to emerging pressures, coordinating resources, and supporting safe and efficient service delivery.
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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, recognizing 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 refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on working for Frimley Health Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current active NMC registration
- Registered Health care professional with previous experience
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or management qualification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent clinical judgment, leadership, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills
- Ability to analyze operational information, identify risk, and implement appropriate actions
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of national urgent and emergency care standards, OPEL frameworks, SAFER principles, discharge improvement programs, digital patient flow systems, or quality improvement methodology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of supporting multidisciplinary teams and managing competing priorities
- Experience of bed management, patient flow, escalation, discharge coordination, or operational site management
Desirable criteria
- Experience within clinical site management, Hospital at Night, urgent and emergency care, critical care, assessment areas, or acute medicine
- Experience of service improvement, audit, or pathway redesign
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT)
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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement, and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organizational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helping us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitized care pathways, saving time and carbon while delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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