Discharge Coordinator

Job description

Job summary

Are you ready for an exciting new challenge?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join our team as a discharge coordinator. You will be supporting all complex discharges from the trauma and orthopaedic bed base at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, ensuring a timely and seamless transition for patients from hospital with the appropriate support. You will be expected to work closely with patients and their families alongside the multi-disciplinary team and the ward teams as well as outside agencies.

This is a great opportunity if you are an individual with excellent communications skills, able to use your initiative and can work independently as well as part of team.

Main duties of the job

• To have a full understanding of the Discharge Policy.
• To act independently, whilst using initiative, guided by the standard operating procedures.
• To escalate problems to, and to be guided by the senior trauma and orthopaedic team.
• To work with all appropriate key stakeholders to ensure safe discharge of patients from the Trust and assist in the development of this area as required.
• To maintain good communications and working relationships with all health care professionals, patients, and relatives.
• To remain sensitive to patient needs with courtesy and respecting dignity, and privacy.
• To assist with a comprehensive assessment of need, for identified patients, this may include basic Mental Capacity Assessment and identifying the need for NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment.
• To be an active member of the Orthopaedic MDT, assisting with coordinating and liaising with external services to manage complex discharges and encouraging multi-disciplinary working and communication.
• To lead the twice daily MDT huddles.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change:Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, searchHHFT Climate Actionor [email protected].

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We welcome informal visits and all requests for flexible working will be considered.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For further information please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We welcome informal visits and all requests for flexible working will be considered.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• NVQ level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study, or employment experience

Essential

Essential

• oGood communication skills to communicate complex, sensitive, or confidential information in an appropriate manner.

Essential

Essential

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload.

Person Specification
Essential

Essential

• NVQ level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study, or employment experience

Essential

Essential

• oGood communication skills to communicate complex, sensitive, or confidential information in an appropriate manner.

Essential

Essential

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital

Basingstoke

RG24 9NA

United Kingdom

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