NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Please note: As this post is part-time, the salary will be pro-rata.
The postholder has the responsibility for influencing and facilitating patient/carer centred integrated care pathways for the patient prior to their hospital admission and during the discharge process, striving for an effective discharge management process, utilising high levels of decision making and clinical judgment while providing specialist advice to healthcare professionals, other agencies, carers, clients, and relatives.
The postholder is responsible for establishing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating discharge management and education processes in collaboration with hospital multidisciplinary teams, hospital discharge hubs, facilitators, home first practitioners, locality teams, and primary care.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult), then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, please click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Jo Fergus on 07899985174 or email joanne.fergus@nhs.scot.
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