# Lead Nurse Discharge

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Hillingdon
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £72,719 - £83,505 per annum (incl. of HCAA)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-25T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18T08:00:36.817Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Uxbridge/The_Hillingdon_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nurse_Management/Nurse_Management-v8171792
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8171792?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.thh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Lead Nurse will provide visible clinical and professional leadership of the integrated discharge team, the Lead Nurse post is a senior leadership role focused on patient flow, complex discharges, and delayed discharge reduction. The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing the Hillingdon Hospital Integrated Discharge Team, delivering a robust integrated discharge model that ensures effective, person-centred and integrated pathways of care out of hospital are embedded through interdisciplinary ways of working and clear, well managed processes and protocols.

### Main duties of the job

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Person specification

**Essential**

- Currently registered with the NMC
- Master’s Level or working towards
- Experience of working at a senior level and working collaboratively with external stakeholders e.g. partners in primary care, local authorities, other NHS organisations
- Experience of leading significant project work and managing service changes.
- Experience of service development and quality improvement

## Documents

- [b8b lead nurse discharge pw (pdf, 792.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10482773)
- [culture & values - cares behaviours (pdf, 155.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1043)

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