Main area: Home First Patient Care Co-ordinator (TIA)
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 435-CIC-004-25
Employer: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Fusion House
Town: Blackburn
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
This post is an essential development for the delivery of a fully integrated discharge service. The ‘Integrated Discharge Patient Care Co-ordinator’ undertakes highly skilled and specialised support work to support qualified therapists in assessing and treating patients, to facilitate complex discharges and improve clinical flow throughout the trust to improve access to acute services.
The ‘Integrated Discharge Patient Care Co-ordinator’ will carry out therapeutic interventions as requested by Therapists and will have access to a qualified Therapist for advice and direction. This may include gathering information for assessments, implementing therapeutic assessment and treatment plans as requested, making recommendations and ordering of equipment and minor adaptations.
The work will take place in a variety of settings including hospital sites, care homes and patient homes. This will include working in the community as a lone worker, in line with the organisational lone working policy.
The post holder will need to be flexible and work across all sites of the trust, including the whole geographical area that East Lancashire Hospitals Trust serves within community. The post holder may be required to work a pattern in line with extended service operating hours, over seven days a week to deliver the ‘Discharge to Assess’ model of care.
Main duties of the job
1. Contribute to the setting of appropriate treatment goals in liaison with the therapist and patient, for when referring onto other services.
2. Undertake assessment tasks that have been specifically delegated by Therapists.
3. Deliver part or all of an assessment / treatment plan as indicated by a qualified Therapist.
4. Give both verbal and written feedback about the progress of a patient’s assessment and treatment, this will include the typing of comprehensive documentation from visits and clinical input.
5. Clearly document each intervention in the patient’s case notes, and typed reports as outlined in organisational policy and procedures.
6. Use technical and therapeutic skills to promote independence, and provide advice, support and educate patients, carers and other health professionals.
Person specification
* GCSE English and Maths 4-9 or equivalent
* Worked within Health and Social Care Setting
* Experience of carrying out Assessments and/or Therapeutic Interventions with people with disabilities
* ECDL or equivalent level of IT skills
* NVQ level 3, BTEC or foundation degree relevant to role
Dear Potential Applicant,
It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust:
* Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata.
* This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS)
If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained.
The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied.
The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background.
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