Admissions and discharge coordinator

Job summary

The successful applicant will need to be a Registered Nurse with Full UK NMC registration. Please see below for some the key experience required.

• Experience in understanding the needs of service users in palliative care/long-term conditions
• Clinical leadership skills
• Able to quickly respond to problems, including identifying and implementing solutions
• An ability to use own initiative in an unsupervised setting
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to communicate

difficult messages to service users and their families

Main duties of the job

We have an exciting opening for an Admissions and Discharge Coordinator to support the IPU. This role would be perfect for a Registered Healthcare Professional interested in coordinating referrals and admissions and setting up a robust discharge process to enable timely discharges of our patients. You will be the first point of contact for the hospice referrals and able to carry out initial clinical triage. Responsible for actively leading, directing, supporting and facilitating the identification of EOL care for patients wishing to return home as their preferred place of care. Coordinate all discharges to patients own home or care home as appropriate. The post holder must work in accordance with their registering bodies' code of professional conduct and Sue Ryder policies and procedures. You will also participate in the senior nurse on call rota. Please see our job description for further details.

About us

Benefits

• Enhanced pay for unsociable hour
• Company pension scheme
• Continuation of NHS pension (T&Cs apply)
• 27 days holiday - rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
• NHS annual leave honoured (T&Cs apply)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Ethnic Diversity and Equality, People with Disabilities, and Women and Non Binary Individuals Staff discount of 10% on new goods online at shop.sueryder.org

For more of our employee benefits please visit our website.

https://www.sueryder.org/jobs/why-work-for-sue-ryder

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and continue to make Sue Ryder a great place to work, and attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible. We are particularly interested in increasing applications from the global majority, LGBTQIA+ and people with disabilities as they are currently underrepresented in our organisation.

Please let us know if you have any feedback to make our recruitment processes more accessible and inclusive or if you require any adjustments made to your application or interview process by emailing recruitment@sueryder.org

https://www.sueryder.org/jobs/equity-diversity-inclusion

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