Discharge Coordinator

Do you enjoy working within a fast paced environment, dealing with complex issues and ensuring those under your care receive optimum treatment? Maple Ward are looking for those with a healthcare qualification (Occupational Therapist, Nurse or Social Worker) to take up the position of Discharge Coordinator, initially on a temporary basis, to ensure that effective flow in-and-out of hospital occurs.

Maple Ward is a busy acute admissions ward for those experiencing a mental health crisis, with discharge from hospital being discussed and planned at the point of admission. You will receive regular supervision and additional training to develop both yourself and the role, as well as being an active member of the management team on the ward.

Strong working relationships with service providers internally and externally to the Trust are required with a clear emphasis on partnership working between community mental health services within SHSC. You will act as a positive role model in the ward team, ensuring high standards of practice and professional behaviour alongside supporting effective change procedures to support current guidance around care.

The post holder will work as part of the leadership and management team actively and positively contribute to the clinical governance and development of the ward processes and policies.

You will need to be a registered mental health professional with relevant registration (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker)and post registration experience. The post holder will have a commitment to enhancing their own knowledge and skills whilst engaging the team in supervision for there development.

All communication for this position will be through NHS Jobs, so please ensure you access your account regularly and turn on notifications.

Sheffield Health and Social Care's vision is to improve the mental, physical and social wellbeing of the people in our communities.

**We will do this by**:

- Working with and advocating for the local population
- Refocusing our services towards prevention and early intervention
- Continuous improvement of our services
- Locating services as close to peoples’ homes as we can
- Developing a confident and skilled workforce
- Ensuring excellent and sustainable services

Our values

Our values are a series of behaviours that everyone at the Trust is expected to adhere to.

We are proud to live our values each and every day. They outline how we will act to ensure we provide the very best care to the people we support.

**Our values are**:

- Working together for our service users
- Respect and kindness
- Everyone counts
- Commitment to quality
- Improving lives

Our strategic aims

As a result of the work we have undertaken to review our strategic direction with our staff, leadership group, Joint Consultative Forum, Council of Governors, Board, partners and people who use services, we have revised our strategic aims to formally acknowledge the importance of addressing inclusion for our staff and people who use our services, as follows:

- Deliver outstanding care
- Create a great place to work
- Effective use of resources
- Ensure our services are inclusive
- Responsible for the coordination and monitoring of care plans, ensuring all in-patients have effective plans at the point of hospital admission and are discharged in a timely manner with a smooth transition to other services
- Responsible for maintaining a collaborative working interface with Home Treatment Team to identify patients suitable for discharge, and to work together to promote a smooth discharge pathway from inpatient services.
- Work with external services in a timely manner so to identify practical help that can be provided to clients in achieving a prompt discharge.
- Works as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team, maintaining and actively role modelling high standards of care.
- To develop effective changes in practice so to support in-patients receiving a high standard of care, meeting individual needs.