Discharge Co-ordinator

1 week ago


Worthing, United Kingdom 279 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Worthing Discharge Team are looking for a proactive person to join our dynamic team for 6 months as a Discharge Coordinator.

We want you to join us in providing safe and coordinated care and a high quality discharge service to all our patients on the Worthing Hospital Site.

If you are motivated and have a keen interest in discharge planning and want to take on this challenging and rewarding role, we would like to hear from you.

Training and a full induction will be given to you.
- Act as key-worker to co-ordinate individual complex discharges
- Attendance on board rounds and MDTs to assist with identifying patients who meet the revised clinical criteria of being ‘medically optimised’ and are suitable for discharge.
- Promotion of the five elements of the safer bundle to be followed
- To assist ward staff with identifying the most appropriate patient pathway for each individual patient and allocate to a discharge pathway.
- To support ward staff to manage patients discharges who are on pathway 0.
- Communication by assisting wards to make calls regarding collecting the collateral and social history of a patient who has been admitted -to assist with a discharge plan to be put in place. Informing families and services of proposed EDD of patient.
- To support the discharge hub with information gathering and referrals and pathway discussion upon request.

Join us at UHSussex, every day is different, you can be the change, better never stops

At UHSussex we’re proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute Trusts, we’re a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years.

**Improving lives**: We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put our Patient First. Our mission is summed up by our ‘where better never stops’ motto and no matter the role at UHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our wellbeing programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
- Manage a personal caseload of wards and coordinate complex discharges from the Acute
- 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 CHC Team



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