Discharge Co-ordinators

**Working Full Time**: 37.5 Hours Per Week

Due to the success of the ward -based Discharge Coordinator pilot and the plan to expand the service within the discharge team we are seeking proactive and hands-on discharge coordinators to join our dynamic team. The post holders will support in facilitating effective, efficient and timely discharge from hospital for our pathway 1-3 patients ensuring we maintain a home first approach.

The expansion of the team is an ideal opportunity to be involved of the transformation of the way Integrated Discharge processes functions and will enhance the partnership working with nurses, therapists, and external agencies.

In actively assisting and supporting patients and staff in various capacities of discharge planning and processes your dedication and enthusiasm will contribute to the smooth operations of hospital flow. You will be joining a team that is fast-paced, friendly and forward thinking.

If you have good communication skills, can engage with multiple professionals along with patients and their families to ensure discharge home is at the centre of planning then this is the opportunity for you.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.