# Discharge Co-ordinator > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/discharge-co-ordinator/43083b5e-3f12-4619-9d15-48b8c1bce5f2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/discharge-co-ordinator/43083b5e-3f12-4619-9d15-48b8c1bce5f2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Worthing - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (4 days a week including some weekends and bank holidays) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-02T09:34:12.625Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Sussex/Worthing/University_Hospitals_Sussex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Discharge_Planning_Patient_Flow/Discharge_Planning_Patient_Flow-v8023059 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8023059?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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. ## Person Specification ### 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 ### MDT Working **Essential** - Experience of Multidisciplinary Working **Desirable** - Experience of Board meetings - Experience in completing TOCH unified referral forms ### Professional Registration **Essential** - NMC registered Nurse or Registered Allied Healthcare Professional **Desirable** - Teaching & Assessing or equivalent - Undertaken Mentorship Course or Equivalent ### 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) ## Documents - [all staff networks about us flyer (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2583) - [guide to completing an application form (pdf, 385.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2915) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 472.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10310805) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.