Job summary
Are you a registered nurse, allied healthcare or social care professional looking to build on your management and leadership experience in an integrated health and social care setting? Whether you are a nurse, physio, OT, paramedic practitioner or social worker or other professional, you will use your expertise to lead a team to facilitate the seamless discharges back to the patients' home or into the community. You will work closely with the medical and nursing teams to ensure patients are discharged as soon as they are medically fit and will be key in supporting the Trusts length of stay and patient flow programme.
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of both community and acute healthcare settings, have an understanding of discharge planning relating to a range of medical and surgical conditions and have the ability to monitor preventable delays in the discharge process.
The applicant will need to be able to innovate and champion best practice and provide inclusive, compassionate leadership and operational management.
Main duties of the job
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
About us
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
1. Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
2. National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
3. We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
4. Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation's top priority
Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey
Job description
Job responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Criteria
Essential
5. Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
6. A complete and accurate application
7. Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
8. Evidence of essential experience for role
9. Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
10. Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
11. Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
12. Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the personal specification