Discharge Co-ordinator

The Worthing Discharge Team are looking for a proactive person to join our dynamic team for 12 months (to cover maternity leave) as a 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.,

• 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.
  
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At UHSussex we're proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK's largest acute Trusts, we're a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years. Improving lives: We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put our Patient First. Our mission is summed up by our 'where better never stops' motto and no matter the role at UHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our wellbeing programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.