Patient Flow Nurse Specialist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are please to be able to offer both full and part time permanent posts as a Patient Flow Specialist Nurse within our District Nurse Liaison Team.

The post will predominantly cover the borough of Knowsley completing nursing assessments within the acute trust to enable patient discharges in to 24hour nursing care and for those patients that are on a fast track pathway.

You will support the community health care division, ensuring patients and families are consulted and patients have a safe discharge to home or into 24hour nursing care . You will work closely with the acute trust discharge team and Local Authority to enable smooth safe discharges.

You will support staff with managing acuity, capacity and flow, responding to urgent situations and liaising with other teams and services to ensure care is managed proactively.

This role is key in the delivery of high quality care and exceptional patient experience across organisation boundaries. The role will provide 'hands on' support to community team, acute ward teams and the intermediate bed base, proactively and positively contributing to the successful patient flow across the health economy. The post holder will work as a clinically autonomous practitioner supporting the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate safe, effective patient flow.

The post holder will autonomously complete health needs assessments and continuing health care needs assessment to ensure that the appropriate long-term care plan is in place. The post holder will ensure excellent levels of customer service for all patients/relatives and staff and will demonstrate improvements in quality and patient experience. To support all aspects of discharge paperwork and the planning and management of effective and timely patient discharge and transfer for patients with complex discharge needs.

To work in collaboration with operational partners across the health and social care system to develop, monitor and expedite patient management plans for patient with complex needs. To facilitate, enable and support interdisciplinary decision making in order to achieve optimal and safe patient flow and the utilisation of all available resources to support the discharge and transfer of patients.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

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.