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Discharge Co Ordinator and Admin Assistant
2 months ago
NHS AfC: Band 3
**Main area**
- Respiratory
- **Grade**
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time
37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 164- 5348312**Site**
- Advanced respiratory care unit
- **Town**
- Nottingham
- **Salary**
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Job overview
This is not your normal discharge and capacity role, so if you are looking for a new challenge and enjoy learning new things then this is the job for you. As well as the discharge planning there will also be admin tasks for you to complete. You will also be expected to work some weekends. The hours worked can be flexible, they can be done over 5 days, as long days or a mixture of both.
We are passionate about providing a high level of care to our patients on ARCU, and this means helping them get home. Our discharges are often complex and involve a number of different teams including home ventilation, physio, MND and trache care.
You will work closely with the nursing and medical team. This is a patient centred role so you must have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team. This role involves a lot of computer work so experience is essential however full training will be given for the systems used within the trust.
You will have a period of supernumerary time where you can work alongside our other DISCO who will show you what is expected of you.
Main duties of the job
- Planning discharges, discuss with the patients what they want/need and involve them on the discharge process.
- Communicate effectively with other members of the MDT and the community teams.
- Booking transport for transfers to other wards and hospitals.
- Collect monthly data on the patients we have and their outcome
- Ensure nerve centre is kept up to do
- Complete audits
- Welcoming patients and visitors when they arrive on the ward.
- Answer telephone enquires.
- Attend morning and afternoon board rounds with the medical team.
- Ensure patient notes are filed correctly
- Support ward staff with duties, such as pharmacy collections, requesting cleans etc.
Working for our organisation
As a large acute teaching hospital, NUH has a range of fantastic opportunities for staff to develop their careers.
In undertaking this role, all employees will be expected to behave at all times in a way that is consistent with the trusts values and behaviours
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Duties:
- Act as the focal point of contact for up-to-date information in relation to discharge communication, within the MDT.
- Act as the focal point of contact for up to date discharge information for relatives / carers whilst also providing good, quality, up-to-date, relevant written discharge information for patients, relatives and/or carers
- Take responsibility for ensuring that all Trust IT systems (Medway /Nerve centre etc) are kept up date in relation to bed states and discharge planning.
- Develop an effective partnership with any admission areas and the Trust/speciality bed co-ordinators/managers to co-ordinate the timely transfer of patients, at the earliest opportunity.
- Ensure that Nerve centre is kept up to date in relation to all and any relevant information relating to the patients discharge including medically safe status and transfer information.
- Under the supervision of the nurse in charge, facilitate ward admissions by effective discharge planning. (Supporting effective discharge planning to provide, smooth timely discharge)
- Identify in timely manner: to the NIC at board round, and expedite the discharge of Patients for discharge that day
- Identify and facilitate early transfer to the Discharge lounge patient who fit the criteria.
- Maintain a regular presence on the ward, attending all daily Board rounds and any multi-professional case conferences. Identify patients who could be discharged, enabling these patients to be reviewed first.
- Lead on the implementation of the agreed discharge plan.
- Take responsibility for ensuring the discharge plan information is reviewed, assessed and updated according to patient condition changes and inform the senior medical and nursing staff if patients do not have a documented management plan within 24 hours of arrival to the base ward
- Ensure the medical staff identify and record a predicted length of stay for each patient, within 24 hours of admission to a base ward
- Ensure expected discharge date and time is clearly documented within the discharge plan and the medical / nursing notes.
- Proactively manage the expected date of discharge against the treatment plan and report any variances to the medical and nursing teams.
- Ensure patients and their carers are informed of the anticipated discharge date and time, within 24 hours of a predicted length of stay being identified.
- In collaboration with the Integrated Discharge and ward nursing and medical Team, support the co-ordination
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