Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8am till 6pm)
- Job ref
- 275-2407TRDSN
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Trustwide Discharge Support Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
Trustwide Discharge Support Nurse
Division: Corporate
Band: 6
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Interview Date: Week commencing 29th July 2024
We are recruiting for a Trustwide Discharge Support Nurse who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
The successful postholder will be expected to develop and maintain links with community health providers and other services which facilitate discharges and provide a consistent point of contact within the Trust for these services working within the Integrated Discharge Team.
To assist the Trust is meeting its statutory organisational requirements and responsibilities in relation to discharge.
Establish and improve professional standards of care in the identification and management of patients with complex discharge needs, across all clinical and non-clinical specialities.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To oversee and co-ordinate the discharge caseloads ensuring all patients are discharged appropriately and in a timely manner.
The post-holder will be a key member of the senior nursing team, assisting with the maintenance of structures, systems and processes in place so that admission avoidance and discharge activity is effectively coordinated across Medway NHS Foundation Trust, making appropriate use of available resources with required operational and service quality standards achieved.
To develop and maintain links with community health providers and other services which facilitate discharges and provide a consistent point of contact within the Trust for these services
To provide specialist advice and support to the wards and their multi-professional teams in managing effective patient discharge as an integral part of care management across Medway NHS Foundation Trust
To ensure best practice in planning safe and timely patient discharges in order to achieve best outcomes for patients and to optimise hospital bed utilisation and reduce length of stay
To develop effective links and relationships with relevant professional partners, to ensure that we are providing the most seamless service possible. To assess, monitor and report on patient length of stay, delayed transfers of care and practice related issues
The post holder will work collaboratively with leads within the Integrated Discharge Team, Local Authorities, health and social care provider and commissioning services and other external stakeholders, to coordinate and promote effective partnership working at all levels of discharge activity. A high degree of effective coordination, communication, networking and liaison will be required to establish and maintain good working relationships within health and with other agencies locally and nationwide
Person specification
Essential Criteria
Essential criteria
- Experience of patient discharge
- Experience of working in a MDT/Multi Agency team
- Evidence of supervisory responsibilities
- Degree level RN
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a discharge team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Woodcraft
- Job title
- Service Manager IDT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07469 906308
- Additional information
Second Contact
Ethel Thrower
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