Discharge Specialist Practitioner

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and proactive discharge specialist practitioner to join our team, focusing on discharge coordination. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring the timely and effective discharge of patients across the Trust. Working closely with ward-based multi-disciplinary teams and the discharge hub, you will:
Ensure the provision of specialist advice.
Develop and implement policies to manage the discharge process.
Ensure all patients with long lengths of stay over 14 days have clear discharge plans.
Conduct Reason to Reside checks for all patients.
Participate in the Length of Stay (LOS) report weekly meetings and other relevant meetings.
If you are passionate about ensuring high standards of patient care and discharge planning and are ready to take on a challenging yet rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.
The successful candidate will be expected to work 9-5 for 5 days over a seven day period.
Please see the detailed job description and main responsibilities section for primary duties of the job.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we
also care for you.
We would love you to join us.