Vacancies Band 6 Discharge Liaison Therapist or Nurse
Job Introduction
As a Discharge Liaison Therapist/Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve.
Based in Bath, you will have the flexibility to work within a model that supports both on-site and hybrid working arrangements, depending on the nature of the role. HCRG Care Group is committed to fostering an agile and adaptable workforce to best meet the needs of our organization and service users.
Outline of Provisional Job Schedule:
Working pattern: 22.5 hrs per week, 7 day working Including weekends, bank holidays and Christmas
Main Responsibility
The key responsibilities of the Discharge Liaison Therapist or Nurse are as follows:
1. To work with the integrated discharge team following the Discharge to Assess model and ensure that service users are being discharged on the correct pathway, preparing them for discharge from the acute and community hospital.
2. To ensure a comprehensive, holistic assessment involving a thorough examination of the patients' medical, physical, social, and emotional state, working within the retrospective professional standards, local policy, and procedural assessment. The role will require you to use clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice to inform the appropriate intervention and make clinical judgments and decisions over the telephone or in hospital/community settings that can often require analysis of complex facts/situations demanding prompt action.
3. To work in partnership with patients, relatives, carers, and the multi-disciplinary team assessing, planning, and implementing a safe discharge plan, encouraging patients and carers to participate in their care by promoting independence and self-reliance. Facilitate clear and effective communication channels between patients’ relatives, carers, and professional colleagues to ensure seamless patient care, leading in the development of patient-centered, goal-oriented plans of rehabilitation while undertaking risk assessments. This will involve managing complex and sensitive situations, ensuring patient confidentiality, and being responsible for case management and key working of designated patients, demonstrated with accurate and up-to-date clinical records.
4. Effectively use IT packages to ensure patient care isn’t delayed and that information is accessed via staff email. Provide professional advice and guidance to the team and others, contributing to the smooth day-to-day management of the team, data gathering, analysis, recording, reporting, interpreting, and recommending further courses of action.
5. Resolve varied problems using advanced analytical/problem-solving techniques to understand the causes, finding solutions based on limited information, and using evaluation, judgment, and interpretation to select the best course of action.
The Ideal Candidate
* Current Professional Registration.
* Willing to undergo training as necessary.
* Knowledge and understanding of Primary and secondary care interface.
* Standards of professional practice.
* Ability to work as part of a team.
* Demonstrate a commitment to self-development.
* Enthusiastic and self-motivated.
* Ability to organize and prioritize workload.
* Understanding of skills and knowledge required to develop team members.
* Able to fulfill Occupational Health requirements for the post.
Package Description
At HCRG Care Group, we value you and your contributions, offering a range of benefits to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing:
* Competitive Pay & Pension: Receive a salary of £37,338 with Agenda for change terms and conditions with NHS pension.
* Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with professionals nationwide to develop and share best practices.
* Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and offers at leading supermarkets, retailers, and experience providers through our Reward Gateway.
* Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, including counseling, career coaching, and legal advice.
* Flexible Pay Options: Track earnings and access wages through Wagestream, providing financial flexibility.
* Learning & Development: Enhance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities.
* Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas for service improvements, and stay informed through regular leadership updates.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices. Everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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Band 6 Discharge Liaison Therapist or Nurse
* Frequency Annual
* Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/111228/14427
* Contract Type Permanent - Full Time
* Closing Date 16 March, 2025
* Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered
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