Discharge Co-ordinator

The post holder will support the Transfer of Care Facilitator / Admission and Discharge Team Lead within services located in Nottinghamshire Healthcare currently Lings Bar Hospital, Community beds and supporting Adult Community services across the south of the Nottinghamshire county and other services if required. The post holder will be responsible for the effective coordination of patient discharges across bed based services. To optimise patient flow and bed capacity., Including supporting admissions as required. They will work closely with clinicians, social workers, carers, third sector - Age UK and all multidisciplinary team members to deliver a high quality patient focussed service. They will meet the required standard to proactively overcome identified concerns /issues that may delay effective discharge from services. They will coordinate with clinicians in the MDT to co-ordinate assessments of patients’ needs and home circumstances and support the formation of the discharge plan.

The role requires the Discharge Co-Ordinator to have organisational skills to manage their own workload, and skills to support the ward team in managing their patients’ journey through the service and through to an effective and timely discharge. The individual will need to be highly motivated and have effective interpersonal skills; able to maintain the delivery of a high quality service during the change process. The post holder will develop innovative new ways of working with other providers to enhance improved working practices and relationship across healthcare and contribute to the delivery of the Discharge 2 Assess agenda. The post holder will possess skills that enable them to accurately assess and refer on to other third party services as the patient requires to support a home first approach wherever possible. The post holder will have effective communication skills to communicate with the ward MDT and the ADF team as a whole to ensure that all relevant information is accurately shared and communicated across parties.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

The post holder should have good IT skills, a flexible approach, able to challenge appropriately. if you enjoy working in a team, at pace as well as being able to impact positively on patient care and the experience they and families and cares have of our service then we want to hear from you.

The post holder will be jointly responsible; along with the ADF team and the ward MDT; for the effective coordination of patient discharges across bed based services to optimise patient flow and bed capacity.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.