Discharge Facilitator

The best place for our patients to continue their recovery and get back to their normal lives is in the comfort of the place they live - your role will be to support this process, playing a vital role to achieve the timely and safe discharge of our patients. Our team is known for being passionate, empathetic and forward thinking, putting our patients at the heard of everything - we just need you to complete the picture. This is a patient-facing role with the majority of your time spent in ward areas liaising with patients and their families & members of the ward team. Whilst you won't be involved in delivering patient care, you will see every day the impact you make and we know how proud you will be of the role you undertake. We guarantee you will:

• work in a fast paced environment , with lots of variety, making a difference to our patients, families and teams
• manage your own workload, working alongside a variety of professionals
• use your fab IT and multi-tasking skills
• work as part of a team of people from different cultures and backgrounds, It doesn't matter if you haven't worked in a hospital setting before - we can teach you everything you need to know. This role will really provide a good introduction to expand your knowledge and understanding of how our hospitals operate.
You'll ensure discharge planning commences from day one of admission liaising with the multi-disciplinary teams and family to ensure patients spend the minimum amount of time required in hospital. Your effective communication skills throughout all of this will be key. You will be the main point of contact relating to the discharge of patients on your ward area, linking in with social care and therapy services, utilising our IT systems. You'll need to use your initiative of course, but you will also have a supportive team around you to help. Your strong organisational skills will also come into play as you manage your workload and ensure tasks are completed timely and any concerns escalated. Our services are 7 days a week - teams are deployed to work on flexible shifts at either of the acute sites depending on business need.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria. Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.