Deputy Discharge Lead - Boston, United Kingdom - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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Boston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An opportunity for 2 Registered Nurses / Allied Health Professionals to join Pilgrim Hospital Discharge HUB in its mission, to support the wards in delivering timely and effective discharge.

If you are an experienced Band 5 looking for their next challenge or a Band 6 interested in trying something new, this may be the role for you.

To provide direction to members of the MDT and support services (e.g. pharmacy) during board round to ensure achievement of transfer of care


To have an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of care throughout the patient journey and to communicate in an appropriate and sensitive manner highly complex information to patients, families or carers ensuring that barriers to communication such as language difficulties, hearing impairments or cognition issues are addressed.

To take a proactive approach to the discharge management of patients with complex needs.

This will involve communicating with Family/Carers, Social Service, Continuing Healthcare, Community Services, GP's, Care Homes and other service providers to ensure any health or social care issues that may impact on a timely transfer of care are identified and resolved early in the patient pathway.


Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people.

We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.


Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.


We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.


This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.


We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

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