Community Discharge Matron

This role is an integrated position working between Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust to support the early discharge putting emphasis on valuing patient time. The post holder will work with the multidisciplinary teams in identifying and delivering a wide variety of quality improvements methods that will support identification and interventions required to reduce wasted time for patients in their journey of care and treatments through the hospital system, back out into community settings. The role will work closely with staff in clinical areas using appropriate tools, systems and processes that support the trusts capacity and flow 'home first' programme. The role for wards and clinical areas will have an emphasis on quality improvement methodology to assure delivery of excellence in patient and carers care provision which will ensureat the centre of the system is the patient receiving acute care and/or their carers whose roles should be
involvement at all stages of the journey and decision making from admission to discharge., The post holder will provide leadership in support creating a culture of continuous improvement and excellence promoting high expectations and ambitions together high achievement by providing advice, guidance and support and coaching to ward staff and their teams on quality and safety.To provide effective and visible clinical leadership that will support wards and clinical teams on their quality improvement plans with specific focus on patient flow leading to safe, timely and effective discharges.Initiate and develop implementation of data collection and subsequentimprovements to measure and enhance quality outcomes related to SAFER care bundles and home first methodology for patients and their carer's.Work in partnership with the wider system, to develop discharge processes and to escalate any challenges / issues appropriately.Identify areas for improvement and make recommendations utilising improvement methodology which will drive service improvement.Provide learning opportunities for
staff on safe, timely discharge for wards and clinical areas both formally and informally.

The successful candidate will support the development of pathways out of LUHFT ensuring appropriate use of all community resources including Intermediate Care beds.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.