Job summary
The Worthing Discharge Team are looking for a proactive person to join our dynamic team for 12 months (to cover maternity leave) as a Discharge Coordinator.
We want you to join us in providing safe and coordinated care and a high quality discharge service to all our patients on the Worthing Hospital Site.
If you are motivated and have a keen interest in discharge planning and want to take on this challenging and rewarding role, we would like to hear from you.
Training and a full induction will be given to you.
Main duties of the job
- Act as key-worker to co-ordinate individual complex discharges
- Attendance on board rounds and MDTs to assist with identifying patients who meet the revised clinical criteria of being 'medically optimised' and are suitable for discharge.
- Promotion of the five elements of the safer bundle to be followed
- To assist ward staff with identifying the most appropriate patient pathway for each individual patient and allocate to a discharge pathway.
- To support ward staff to manage patients discharges who are on pathway 0.
- Communication by assisting wards to make calls regarding collecting the collateral and social history of a patient who has been admitted -to assist with a discharge plan to be put in place. Informing families and services of proposed EDD of patient.
- To support the discharge hub with information gathering and referrals and pathway discussion upon request.
About us
Join us at UHSussex, every day is different, you can be the change, better never stops
At UHSussex we're proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK's largest acute Trusts, we're a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years.
Improving lives: We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put our Patient First. Our mission is summed up by our 'where better never stops' motto and no matter the role at UHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our wellbeing programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Manage a personal caseload of wards and coordinate complex discharges from the Acute
- Act as Trust experts in discharge planning, assisting and supporting the MDT to drive and co-ordinate discharges, ensuring effective, timely intervention from all disciplines
- Assist wards and teams with understanding and using the Home First Model
- Support the integrated Discharge Hub in matching patients to pathways
- Provide education in discharge planning to members of the MDT or other professional groups requiring this teaching
- Support transfers to NHS funded community venues/services
- Participate in the development of Trusted Assessment for care transfers
- Monitor performance associated with discharge, identifying gaps in service provision that may have a detrimental effect on length of stay, delayed transfers of care or patient experience
- Work with multi-agency representatives to reduce length of stay, numbers of super-stranded patients and delayed transfers of care, to achieve performance targets related to discharge
- Facilitate Trusts compliance with current legislation relating to discharge planning
- Ensure compliance with NSF for NHS Continuing Healthcare and act as the Trusts liaison with the CHC Team
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Manage a personal caseload of wards and coordinate complex discharges from the Acute
- Act as Trust experts in discharge planning, assisting and supporting the MDT to drive and co-ordinate discharges, ensuring effective, timely intervention from all disciplines
- Assist wards and teams with understanding and using the Home First Model
- Support the integrated Discharge Hub in matching patients to pathways
- Provide education in discharge planning to members of the MDT or other professional groups requiring this teaching
- Support transfers to NHS funded community venues/services
- Participate in the development of Trusted Assessment for care transfers
- Monitor performance associated with discharge, identifying gaps in service provision that may have a detrimental effect on length of stay, delayed transfers of care or patient experience
- Work with multi-agency representatives to reduce length of stay, numbers of super-stranded patients and delayed transfers of care, to achieve performance targets related to discharge
- Facilitate Trusts compliance with current legislation relating to discharge planning
- Ensure compliance with NSF for NHS Continuing Healthcare and act as the Trusts liaison with the CHC Team
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- NMC registered Nurse or Registered Allied Healthcare Professional
Desirable
- Teaching & Assessing or equivalent
- Undertaken Mentorship Course or Equivalent
Experience
Essential
- To have worked on a hospital ward consistently over a substantive period (at Band 5 or above), with responsibility for co-ordinating/arranging discharges of patients OR equivalent management responsibility in a health or social care setting
Desirable
- Basic working knowledge of: a) Continuing Health Care b) Home First Model c) Safer Bundle
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- NMC registered Nurse or Registered Allied Healthcare Professional
Desirable
- Teaching & Assessing or equivalent
- Undertaken Mentorship Course or Equivalent
Experience
Essential
- To have worked on a hospital ward consistently over a substantive period (at Band 5 or above), with responsibility for co-ordinating/arranging discharges of patients OR equivalent management responsibility in a health or social care setting
Desirable
- Basic working knowledge of: a) Continuing Health Care b) Home First Model c) Safer Bundle
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
