Discharge Co-ordinator

Job overview

The Worthing  Discharge Team are looking for a proactive person to join our  dynamic team as a permanent   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.

This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. Sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds, and any role-specific criteria. For example, applicants for the Senior HCA role must be able to evidence a minimum of 2 years’ experience in the same role to qualify for sponsorship.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

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.

Detailed job description and main 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 Trust’s compliance with current legislation relating to discharge planning
• Ensure compliance with NSF for NHS Continuing Healthcare and act as the Trust’s liaison with the  CHC Team

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details.