# Pathway Co-ordinator > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/pathway-co-ordinator/f5dc86ec-4313-4a3b-88e8-de7c21dc18e9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/pathway-co-ordinator/f5dc86ec-4313-4a3b-88e8-de7c21dc18e9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-07T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-31T13:00:50.726Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Kings_College_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Surgery/Surgery-v8198743 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8198743?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - To support the wards, bed mangers and Discharge Co-ordinators (DISCOSs) in the management of patients through the trust from admission to discharge. Key roles are: - To provide support to the ward teams to manage patient flow, investigations, tests and general co-ordination of work - To support the bed managers with a cohort of patients discharge planning and support. - To identify all complex discharges and hand over to the DISCO. - To be a two-way conduit for information to wards, DISCOs on board rounds and at MDM. - To attend trust meetings identifying escalation points within the division. - To help support and facilitate the repatriation of trauma and long stay patients ### Main duties of the job Patient Flow Planning To work with the nurse in charge to facilitate and co-ordinate all aspects of discharge Administration To support with administrative tasks such as transport bookings, porting requests, updating EPIC with admissions and discharges Management To support with collection of I want great care data. Participate in audits and support the ward manager and bed management team with escalations of blocks to flow and the patient pathway ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Patient Flow Planning - To track patient  investigations, identifying any delays and taking  appropriate actions to make sure they are carried out in a timely manner - To monitor, white boards, ward reviews and EPIC to facilitate patient investigations and communicating with the nurse in charge regarding problems with these - To have an accurate and up-to-date overview of daily discharges that will be happening within the wards and to be responsible for providing information about available bed numbers to the bed manager - To be the main communication point for ongoing tests/investigations, ensuring that requests are acted on and that patients not delayed unnecessarily - To attend daily board rounds and MDM and to act on requests, feeding back to the appropriate person - To facilitate timely writing of TTAs so as to ensure the patients are discharged in a timely manner working with the junior doctors and pharmacy - To review all patients daily, identifying any new cases requiring case management by the DISCO - To support the ward staff by managing the timely submission of appropriate social work documentation, specifically notification for assessment and discharge - To support the ward with setting up community nursing services with early identification for the need of this service - To undertake simple discharge planning with the support of the DISCO and SW Manager - To be responsible for a daily communication liaison to reduce duplication of effort - To be the main conduit for information regarding planned discharges - To attend the daily trust meetings to support the early escalation of delays - To be responsible for maintaining a current list of all patients on their team wards Administration - To document all actions on EPIC in a timely manner - To prepare for board rounds ensuring that all patients are correctly allocated to consultants on EPIC and the white board - To take responsibility for liaising with Ward Administrators to ensure old notes are requested and merged with new ones and to follow-up with Patient Information Services any outstanding - To be responsible for preparing a weekly ward-based MDM list as directed, ensuring liaison with relevant professionals and effective distribution prior to meetings - To act as a central communication point across for all professions involved in planning patient care both within the ward-based team and within primary care and other agencies - To act appropriately on all information, problem solving and finding solutions wherever possible - To use initiative to work independently Management - To actively support the process of risk management – ensure incidents are reported appropriately and helping identify ways of preventing errors and accidents to both patients and staff - To effectively manage a patient’s simple discharge, ensuring adequate communication and documentation across all teams - To communicate varied and complicated information (verbally and in writing) in a way that is understood and gets the important facts across - To maintain confidentiality with regard to personal information pertaining to staff - To attend and contribute to departmental meetings as required ## Person Specification ### Essential **Essential** - Good communication skills - Excellent English – written and spoken - Computer skills qualification with word processing skills - Ability to use and learn other software packages, i.e. Excel or Patient Administration System - Previous NHS experience - Basic understanding of the discharge process - Willingness to undertake relevant NVQ qualification - Reliability - Ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team whilst also using own initiative - Evidence of strong interpersonal skills - Ability to prioritise and to work under pressure **Desirable** - Working knowledge of medical terminology ## Documents - [jd&ps (pdf, 389.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10504319) - [denmark hill site map (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=606) - [princess royal (pruh) site map (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=607) - [visa and sponsorship information (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2817) ## 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.