Senior Physiotherapist Discharge Navigator

We are looking for an exceptional individual to join the Transfer of Care Team at the Royal London Hospital as a Senior Physiotherapist Discharge Navigator. The Transfer of Care Team is a joint health and social care service aimed at facilitating discharges from the acute setting, based on the home first principle. The team prevents avoidable delays in patient discharges through coordination and planning in accordance with current government discharge guidelines. You will problem-solve to overcome challenges and work with the ward multidisciplinary teams, senior management and external agencies as well as advocating on behalf of your patients.
You will be based mainly on the wards as well as non-clinical areas, providing discharge advice and information on local authorities, voluntary agencies, and other help and support available to patients once discharged into the community. You will act as a discharge planning expert on the wards to ensure that people who do not require acute hospital care are discharged to their usual place of residence, rehabilitation units or residential/nursing home placements. You will use your clinical skills to screen referrals to ensure patients are discharged with appropriate therapy, health and social care support on discharge., As a senior physiotherapist specialist in this field you will supervise and line manage more junior staff, supporting them through teaching and guidance with their more complex caseload management.
In turn you will be supported by a band 7 Physiotherapist specialising in discharge and by a wider Transfer of Care Hub multidisciplinary team.
Please refer to the Job description and person specification form more details.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

You will have a sound knowledge of discharge planning and discharge processes. You will have a clinical background that will enable you to identify patients suitable for therapy and reablement interventions on discharge and screen referrals to community services. You will possess an ability to prioritise both clinical and operational workload. Your experience will support a pro-active approach in a dynamic and continuously changing environment. You will be confident in supporting other staff with discharge processes a variety of settings. You are a team player, with excellent communication skills, who would enjoy the challenges that this role will provide.
You will be able to manage conflicting priorities, be confident in challenging decisions at all levels and have experience of working in a high paced, high pressure environment. You will supervise more junior staff a will yourself be offered senior support and training to help develop you in your role.
If this sounds like you we would love to hear from you and welcome you to our friendly and supportive team.

We are a 7 day service operating from 08:00 to 18:00 including bank holidays. If successful, please note you will be expected to work weekends, bank holidays and late shifts as part of a rota pattern.