Patient Discharge Facilitator

The Patient Discharge Facilitator is a key member of the Integrated Care Transfer Hub
discharge support structure to support the safe, timely and effective discharge of patients from
hospital.
The postholder will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to
develop positive and effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels within the
organisation and with external partners, including the ICB, Local Authority and voluntary providers
to plan and facilitate the timely discharge of patients into the community or to rehabilitation or
intermediate care facilities according to their discharge plans., The postholder will need to routinely liaise with key members of the ward multidisciplinary teams, the Transfer of Care Hub, social services and partners to gain intelligence on actual or
potential discharges and or barriers to discharges and work to resolve these. In addition post holder will
be able to utilise and update the various IT systems available in the Trust and disseminate this in
order to support the smooth flow of patients across the organisation. The postholder will also need to have the ability to work as part of a team, as well as being able to work on
their own initiative, with the ability to work well under pressure and effectively prioritise workload.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.