Discharge Facilitator

A vacancy has arisen for a full time Discharge Facilitator (37.5hours per week)

The Discharge Facilitator will need an interest in, and a passion for improving safe and timely hospital discharge for patients. You will gain invaluable experience in this important aspect of inpatient care.

As the discharge facilitator, you will support ward staff to discharge patients. Utilising the Discharge Lounge, chasing up TTOs or any outstanding actions, liaising with families/carers, calling Care Providers to re-start care, booking transport, chasing for updates on progress, liaising with support services in the Community (i.e. voluntary sector), etc.

Yeovil Hospital is an ambitious and friendly Trust that is proud to provide acute care for a population of more than 225,000 people in South Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip. The hospital has 345 beds, a busy Emergency Department, a variety of outpatient and diagnostics services, and a private patients’ wing which offers a personal service in state-of-the-art clinical facilities, with all profits being invested back into NHS healthcare.

Yeovil Hospital’s iCARE model, which has established the principles of exemplary patient care, patient and employee experience, has attracted national interest and is embedded in everything we do, following our vision to care for our patients as if they are one of our family. The Trust’s shared vision has led to our staff rating Yeovil Hospital the best in England for employee health and wellbeing for the third year running in the annual NHS staff survey 2020.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.