‘We are looking for a dynamic individual to join the Integrated Discharge Team. The team work across acute (Warwick Hospital) community hospitals and in specifically commissioned D2A Care homes, located in South Warwickshire. You will manage a caseload of patients by delivering a high – quality service, ensuring discharges are planned with a home first mind set, ensuring patients are discharged to the least restrictive option through several Discharge To Assess (D2A) pathways. You will work collaboratively across all divisions within the trust, whilst sustaining partnership working with links across the local health and social care economy. Working with a variety of staff groups and voluntary sectors; you must be confident in sensitivity challenging conventional thinking and demonstrate negotiating and influencing skills. The successful candidate will be proactive, forward thinking and committed to maintaining capacity and flow across the system, through safe and timely patient discharges, to reduce the detrimental outcomes associated with a protracted length of stay. You will contribute to the redesign of discharge pathways and facilitate in the delivery of local and national legislation and guidance related to patient discharge. Applicants with NHS Continuing Healthcare assessors experience welcomed as well as Registered Nurses, Therapists and Social Care Practitioners. The service operates from Monday – Friday and covering BH`s To coordinate complex patient discharges by liaising across the Health and Social Care economy and working collaboratively with Primary Care and third sector services, This is an integral role provided at both the acute sector and the community setting. The purpose is to assist the Trust to maintain capacity and flow throughout the whole system and to promote safe and timely discharges, with the intent to reduce the detrimental outcomes associated for patients who have a prolonged length of stay. The Trust have a number of discharge initiatives that aim to bring care closer to home, therefore the post holder must be confident and proactive in sensitively challenging conventional thinking. Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Deborah Griffin Job title: Integrated Discharge Team Leader Email address: deborah.griffinswft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07586498544 I can be contacted Monday - Friday 9 - 5pm