Discharge Co-ordinator | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior Registered Nurse or Therapist to join our team of Discharge Coordinators

The primary function of this role will be to work within the integrated discharge team identifying pathways for medically optimised patients.

This role involves working closely alongside, nursing, therapies, medical staffing and local authority as a decision-maker and facilitator of safe discharge from acute care. The role will also include community based work to support patients newly discharged from acute care or aid in prevention of hospital admission.

The post holder will act as a facilitator and decision-maker, coordinating activity across a range of organisations. Practitioners will assist with the facilitation of early safe discharge for hospital inpatients.

The post holders' main function will be to act as a clinical decision-maker providing the point of contact and communication link between the hospital, locality team and primary care in order for clinical decision-making to take place.

The role will also require community working and managing the short term care team to facilitate patients step down from acute that require rehabilitation within the community and their own homes you will also be required to be the case holder for these patients and to support hospital avoidance for these patients

The role will primarily center within the Integrated Discharge team, however, at times support all elements of patient care as below alongside experienced colleagues specialised in these roles:

• Patients at high risk of unplanned hospital admission (including those in care homes)


• Patients requiring discharge from hospital (planned and unplanned) including support with fast track and facilitation of end of life discharges


• Patients with complex health and social care packages following this period, admissions, assessments for a defined group of patients and subsequent signposting/discharge to other professionals as required.
  
  NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.


Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.