Integrated Discharge Coordinator

The Discharge Coordinator plays a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, timely, and effective discharge of patients from hospital. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will coordinate complex discharge plans, facilitate communication between health and social care professionals, and work closely with patients, families, carers, and external agencies to support seamless transitions of care.

The post holder will proactively identify and address barriers to discharge, ensuring that patients receive the appropriate support and services required upon leaving hospital. They will provide specialist advice on discharge processes, contribute to improving patient flow, and support the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care.

The Discharge Coordinator will work collaboratively across acute, community, and social care settings to ensure compliance with national guidance, local policies, and best practice standards, promoting positive patient outcomes and reducing unnecessary delays in discharge.

We are particularly interested in candidates who have experience of undertaking NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Nurse Assessments., 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 University 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. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

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, inclusive, 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.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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