Discharge Co-ordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior Registered Nurse or Therapist to join our team of Discharge Coordinators.

The primary function of this role will be to work within the integrated discharge team identifying pathways for medically optimised patients.

This role involves working closely alongside, nursing, therapies, medical staffing and local authority as a decision-maker and facilitator of safe discharge from acute care. The role may also include community based work to support patients newly discharged from acute care or aid in prevention of hospital admission.

The post holder will act as a facilitator and decision-maker, coordinating activity across a range of organisations. Practitioners will assist with the facilitation of early safe discharge for hospital inpatients.

The post holders’ main function will be to act as a clinical decision-maker providing the point of contact and communication link between the hospital, locality team and primary care in order for clinical decision-making to take place.

The role will primarily center within the Integrated Discharge team, however, at times support all elements of patient care as below alongside experienced colleagues specialised in these roles:

- Patients at high risk of unplanned hospital admission (including those in care homes)
- Patients requiring discharge from hospital (planned and unplanned) including support with fast track and facilitation of end of life discharges
- Patients with complex health and social care packages following this period, admissions, assessments for a defined group of patients and subsequent signposting/discharge to other professionals as required.

We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

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“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers, we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

Following consultation, the Health and Social Care Act 2008 has been amended, which includes the provision that from 11 November 2021 all workers in CQC registered care homes are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless a medical exemption applies. If appointed to a role that includes deployment to care homes, you will be required to provide evidence of full vaccination or medical exemption in order to undertake the role. This evidence will be required post-appointment as part of the pre-employment check process. Please note the requirement for full vaccination, or medical exemption will be a requirement of the terms and conditions of service for staff deployed to care homes.