Patient Flow Coordinator - Stevenage, United Kingdom - East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

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Stevenage, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Integrated Discharge Team for a full-time/part time Patient Flow Coordinator.

Participate in transferring patients to the Discharge Lounge, as early as possible, and throughout the day.

Take part in the wards board rounds and pick up any delays / escalations to act on.
Manage and support the home today list on Nerve Centre and ensuring patients are discharged as planned.
Communicate and close working with support services, Transport, pharmacy, discharge lounge, IDT, Red to Green team, Site Office and Ward staff as required.
Participate and support full capacity protocol when activated
Support the wards with booking transport 24 hours in advance to facilitate timely discharges.
Ensure all patients transferred to Discharge Lounge unless meet exclusion criteria
Ensure patient/relatives/carers are aware of discharge plans promoting positive patient experience using the SAFER and red to green processes.
Fast track drugs and progress chase directly with pharmacy
Ensuring Discharge transfer letters completed by ward Doctors using the Lorenzo system.
Attend bed meetings to support the integrated discharge team, the site team and Matron
Any other duties that support the work of the integrated discharge team

Education and development:

Contribute to the development of own knowledge and skills
Take part in learning activities, training and development within the trust, for own personal development and role development.
Maintain competence in statutory and mandatory training requirements through attendance and/or undertaking trainin

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care.

Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.

We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder.

Please see attached - job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.