These exciting posts will be based within the (Fife-wide) Integrated Discharge Team, mainly based within Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy and when required Community Hospitals across Fife.
These posts involve comprehensive assessment and discharge planning. We work to support discharge to meet PDD. Our ethos is patient centred pathways within the Home First Model. The post involves attending ward daily MDT’s completing assessments and communicating with the relevant teams across the Partnership and Third Sector organisations.
The role requires an individual who takes a dynamic approach to complex discharge planning. Ideally a knowledge and wide range of experience working within Health and Social Care would be desirable. You will require to have a current qualification/ registration Nursing or AHP role and will work across all areas and play a pivotal role in discharge planning. The ideal candidate will require to have excellent communication skills, with an organised and flexible approach.
You should possess knowledge and experience of long-term conditions and frailty which currently has an impact on our aging population.
You will be required to work as an autonomous practitioner, using your own initiative, decision making and providing regular updates on discharge pathways and plans.
Knowledge and skills in the use of Microsoft Office and associated databases (e.g. Excel) are also required for this post.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
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 Fife welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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