Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Discharge Planning Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be expected to plan, provide and maintain effective Discharge Planning care to patients and their relatives. You also continuously develop and enhance knowledge and skills that will directly influence consistent standards of Discharge Planning practice.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
1. Support Ward staff and Multidisciplinary team (MDT) to develop robust and effective discharge plans which are Patient focused.
2. Act as a resource to ward staff/patients/relatives offering advice and help on all aspects of discharge planning.
3. Facilitate referrals in conjunction with the ward staff to outside agencies to ensure continuity of care.
4. Assess individuals needs and completing NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments.
5. Manage own caseload of patients and ensure any barriers to safe, effective and timely discharges are escalated appropriately.
6. Liaise with community teams concerning patient discharges.
7. Identify and manage potential problems that may prevent timely discharge. Escalate as appropriate.
8. Assist in the facilitation of training required for staff, patients and carers to meet any training needs identified to affect the discharge of individual patients.
9. Negotiate and agree care plans with Community agencies, patients and their families.
10. Ensure, with other MDT members, that patients and their relatives are involved and informed of discharge arrangements and discharge planning is documented.
11. Act as patient advocate at all times.
12. Ensure contemporaneous records are kept in the patient medical records and on the Trust electronic system.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Nursing Registration
* Evidence of ongoing personal development
* Ability to produce personal portfolio
* Teaching qualification/experience
Previous Experience
* Experience of a wide range of acute and community pathways and processes in relation to patient needs and discharge process
* Evidence of innovation in practice
* Experience of liaison between acute hospital and community services
* Experience of mentoring, assessing, coaching
* Experience in bed management
* Experience in participating/undertaking audit
* Experience of devising, implementing and evaluating change programmes
Skills
* Assessment skills and the ability to recognise signs of a deteriorating patient who may be approaching end of life
* Appropriate application of the NHS CHC Framework particularly relating to fast track discharge planning.
* Good proven leadership and motivational skills
* Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
* Advanced problem solving and decision making skills
* Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
* Report writing and presentation skills
* Assertiveness and influencing skills
* Ability to plan, prioritise and work independently and manage own workload
* Ability to work in a multi-professional arena, developing relationships and effective partnerships across agencies
* Ability to analyse and assess information to develop a service
* Ability to analyse data and maintain relevant databases
* Ability to implement changes in practice
* Excellent standard of verbal and written communication
* Ability to promote good working partnerships with other agencies both internal and external
* Self-motivated
Knowledge
* Current knowledge of issues affecting the provision of health services in the changing health care market
* Working knowledge of delayed transfer of care act
* Working knowledge of MCA/DOLS policies and guidance
* The various agencies and their role relating to discharge planning
* Current knowledge of issues affecting the provision of health services in the changing health care market
* Working knowledge of barriers to discharge planning
* Working knowledge of wider health and social/community care policies and impact on role
Other Requirements
* Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
* Role model our Trust values every day
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular, we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
When you apply...
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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.
If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.
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.
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