Discharge Lounge Assistant Practitioner
3 months ago
Job summary
Working Full time : hours per week
We are excited to offer an opportunity for a B4 Associate Practitioner to join the Discharge Lounge team at the Countess of Chester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The aim of the discharge and transport lounge is to promote patient flow, improve quality of care and patient experience for patients being discharged from the Countess of Chester.
The post holder will be required to liaise with patients, families, carers, ward staff, internal departments and external transport agencies to ensure that patients being discharged via the hub experience a coordinated journey from ward to hub to home.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an accountable, professional, responsible member of the team and will deliver high quality, patient centered, compassionate care to patients being discharged via the discharge and transport hub. The post holder will assume responsibility and accountability for the team within the discharge lounge and provide a safe caring environment that promotes dignity, privacy and respect.
To coordinate tasks to ensure patients are discharged safely and timely from hospital.
To provide support to the multi professional team who work within the discharge lounge.
About us
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds. Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
NVQ Level 4 or relevant equivalent experience NVQ in Care Level 2 A level qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting An understanding of organisation or nursing care Mandatory training Willingness to undertake clinical skills required for the speciality. Basic understanding of NHS issuesWe have other current jobs related to this field that you can find below
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