Main area: Discharge Planning and Patient Flow
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekend and cross site work)
Job ref: 176-C-6941217
Employer: North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hinchingbrooke Hospital
Town: Huntingdon
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59
Band 7
Job overview
Do you aspire for a new challenge and enjoy working within a team? Do you enjoy working at a fast pace and want to make a positive contribution to the patient experience? If so, please apply.
We are looking to recruit an energetic, motivated, and proactive person to support the Discharge Planning team and wards in ensuring smooth, timely patient discharges.
This role is paramount in supporting patient flow throughout the trust and maximizing bed capacity. The key focus for this role will include reviewing patient referrals for discharge support, ensuring consistency and response from relevant organisations in a timely manner.
You will support the wards regarding the initiatives used to support effective patient flow e.g. Red 2 Green SAFER and Criteria to Reside. You will role model excellent behaviours and ensure discharge planning is carried out to a consistently high standard.
This role is pan site and will involve weekend work.
Main duties of the job
1. To co-lead Discharge Planning initiatives, which promote a change-orientated organisational culture.
2. To ensure all local policies and discharge information reflect the Trust’s Clinical Governance Strategy, ECIST and Department of Health guidance on discharge planning.
3. To provide leadership to the team to ensure that patients with complex discharge needs are appropriately referred in line with Trust and National targets.
4. To ensure that trust staff are informed / able to access relevant discharge planning information to promote safe, timely, and appropriate patient discharge from the acute setting.
5. To lead on the implementation of the Red2Green and SAFER initiatives to support effective patient flow.
6. To contribute to 7 day service delivery in accordance with Care Act (2014).
Working for our organisation
We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in our workforce and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, with a special focus on welcoming individuals from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, as well as those from our local area.
In line with our dedication to employee support, we offer a variety of benefits. For more information, please see the attached staff benefits leaflet.
We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where employees feel valued and empowered to excel in their roles. Join us and become part of a team dedicated to making a positive difference in our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached for further information regarding this role.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
* Professional Registration (Nursing or AHP)
* Management or Leadership Course
Experience
* An understanding of Local Discharge Planning Processes, Red2 Green/SAFER initiatives, Criteria to reside, SHOP principles
* Awareness of current developments in healthcare and Discharge Planning
* Teaching experience
* Experience of MDT working both internal and external to the Trust.
* Can demonstrate the clinical decision-making process.
* Awareness of discharge planning and patient flow initiatives to improve the patient’s journey
* Teaching Qualification
Skills
* Ability to work autonomously and provide leadership within a multi-professional team
* Ability to work within a multicultural community where English is not always the first language and there may be barriers to understanding
* Ability to work effectively with patients and relatives where emotive subjects are being discussed
* Ability to use persuasion and negotiation where the matter being discussed is unwelcome to the recipient/s.
* Evidence of good communication skills
Applications from job seekers who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications subject to the role being on the list of eligible occupations and the salary meets the going rate for the role. Candidates should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship.
It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.
Not everyone needs a ‘Skilled Worker’ visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, check if you’re eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead. It’s cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications and so urge you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close earlier if it received a high number of applications and therefore we recommend that you complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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