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. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo 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 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 organisational 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 helps 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 digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst 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. Apply online now