Are you passionate about patient care and ensuring smooth transitions from hospital to home? Mansfield Community Hospital is seeking a dedicated Discharge Coordinator to join our dynamic team. This role is crucial in the discharge process, ensuring all necessary arrangements are in place for the safe discharge of our patients.
The successful candidate will support the planning and focus on patients with a predicted date of medically safe discharge within 48 hours and support their discharge process. You will develop close working relationships with all members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), both internal and external to the Trust, to support and coordinate the discharge process.
This role is part of the wider corporate capacity, flow, and resilience departments, reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer. The discharge service works closely with community colleagues on the Discharge to Assess model of care and supports the management of patients with long lengths of stay, specialist discharges (End of Life and Fast Track), and complex discharges. The service may also overlap with other department functions for bed flow and virtual hospital management.
If you are a proactive, organized, and compassionate individual looking to make a difference in patient care, we would love to hear from you!
Please see the attached documents for the detailed job description and main responsibilities and person specification.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.
Please see the attached documents for the detailed job description and main responsibilities and person specification.
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