Discharge Coordinator

1 month ago

Brighton, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Overview

The University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a Discharge Coordinator. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth transition of patients from our acute care setting to their next stage of care.

Main Responsibilities
  • Manage a personal caseload of wards and coordinate complex discharges from the acute care setting.
  • Serve as a Trust expert in discharge planning, assisting and supporting the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in driving and coordinating discharges, ensuring timely and effective interventions from all disciplines.
  • Assist wards and teams in understanding and implementing the 'Home First' model.
  • Support the Transfer of Care Hub (TOCH) by matching patients to appropriate discharge pathways.
  • Provide education and training in discharge planning to members of the MDT and other professional groups as required.
  • Participate in the development and implementation of Trusted Assessments for care transfers.
  • Monitor discharge performance, identifying gaps in service provision that could negatively impact patient length of stay, delayed transfers of care, or overall patient experience.
  • Collaborate with multi-agency representatives to reduce patient length of stay, the number of super-stranded patients, and delayed transfers of care, working to achieve discharge-related performance targets.
  • Ensure the Trust's compliance with current legislation regarding discharge planning.
  • Ensure adherence to the National Service Framework (NSF) for NHS Continuing Healthcare, acting as the Trust's liaison with the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Team.
Person Specification

Essential Criteria

  • Discharge planning experience.
  • Band 6 experience of at least a year.

Desirable Criteria

  • Discharge Coordinator's experience.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Essential Criteria

  • Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
  • Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues.

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