Discharge Co-ordinator

To Provide a comprehensive service to the Trust with a focus to facilitate effective and timely discharge of patients no longer requiring acute care.
- Manage a personal caseload of wards and coordinate complex discharges from own caseload
- Provide cover for other wards/departments when colleagues are absent, or when workloads are increased
- Coordinate specific discharges identified by colleagues on their allocated wards as required
- Service the integrated ‘Discharge Hub’
- Consider budgetary implications with regard to basic equipment required for role
- Liaise and negotiate with any person or organisation with involvement in the discharge process of one or more patients, including family and representatives of patients
- Provide training sessions and individual advice to ward staff and other health care professionals on all aspects of the discharge process
- Act as key-worker to co-ordinate individual complex discharges
- Act as Trust experts in discharge planning, assisting and supporting the MDT to drive and co-ordinate discharges, ensuring effective, timely intervention from all disciplines
- Assist wards and teams with understanding and using the ‘Home First’ Model
- Support the integrated ‘Discharge Hub’ in matching patients to pathways
- Provide education in discharge planning to members of the MDT or other professional groups requiring this teaching
- Support transfers to NHS funded community venues/services
- Participate in the development of Trusted Assessment for care transfers
- Monitor performance associated with discharge, identifying gaps in service provision that may have a detrimental effect on length of stay, delayed transfers of care or patient experience
- Work with multi-agency representatives to reduce length of stay, numbers of super-stranded patients and delayed transfers of care, to achieve performance targets related to discharge
- Facilitate Trust’s compliance with current legislation relating to discharge planning
- Ensure compliance with NSF for NHS Continuing Healthcare and act as the Trust’s liaison with the CCG CHC Team

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Attendance at daily board rounds on each ward on caseload.

Attendance at weekly MDT (multi-disciplinary team) meetings on each ward in caseload.

Participate in twice daily Touchpoint Calls when covering the Discharge Hub and communicate outcomes and actions to relevant parties.

Communication with all internal staff (including ward staff, senior managers, immediate colleagues, representatives from other departments etc), external organisations, patients, relatives/friends and the general public.

Communicate sensitive information which may cause upset or anger, and manage this situation.