Clinical Inpatient Admission to Discharge facilitator

Job summary

As part of our commitment to improving patient flow and length of stay We are seeking a full-time band 6 working in the patient flow team as a Clinical Inpatient Admission to Discharge facilitator. The role has been developed to support inpatient services and external stakeholders in assuring patients are discharged in a timely manner.

The team base will be at the Caludon Centre. There is an expectation to be able to travel across all mental health inpatient sites.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by a 'can-do' attitude towards their work and a strong values base that drives practice. Confident in their clinical knowledge. The successful candidate will be flexible and have the ability to travel between sites. This post is open to candidates with the right attributes to enhance our team.

The role will require the post holder to ensure that the wards are reporting patient flow and detailed discharge plans through the mental health inpatient bed management and delayed transfer of care governance reporting system and those patients have a discharge date at the point of admission.

To ensure that all patients deemed fit for discharge are reported accurately, and managed and escalated within the agreed identified processes and procedures.

This post will cover Monday to Friday between 9am to 5pm.

This is a permanent full time post.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will take delegated responsibility for the escalation of specific bed management issues to the relevant clinical unit or department. Working alongside the multidisciplinary teams for each area the postholder will work innovatively and creatively to find solutions to individual issues, including identifying complex discharge issues that need to be escalated to the respective clinical or management teams.

The role will require the post holder to ensure that the wards are reporting patient flow and detailed discharge plans through the mental health inpatient bed management and delayed transfer of care governance reporting system and that patients have a discharge date at the point of admission.

To ensure that all patients deemed fit for discharge are reported accurately, and managed and escalated within the agreed identified processes and procedures. This will include assuring reports are undertaken in a timely manner and provided to the identified panel, professional body, and scrutiny panels.

The post holder will also be required to support clinical staff in presenting reports at funding panels.

The post holder will be required to oversee acute out of area admissions, attending MDT's, ward rounds, and supporting the discharge pathway for patients placed in private hospitals, ensuring barriers to discharge are raised in a timely manner and length of stay is not prolonged unnecessarily.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.