Discharge Coordinator - Farnham, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Farnham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an excellent opportunity for highly motivated and experienced nurse with an interest in supporting patients to their normal place of residence.

We are looking for a nurse who enjoys problem solving and working creatively to support a safe transfer home.

You will be as part of the discharge team and primarily supporting patients based in Farnham Community Hospital.

You will need to collaborate and liaise with patients, carers, family, hospital and other professional staff to improve the quality of the discharge process in the acute hospital setting, by liaising with internal and external professionals offering guidance and support to facilitate timely and appropriate safe discharge of patients from hospital to community.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

To promote the continuity of care of patients with complex needs discharged from hospital into the community
To chair MDT discharge planning meetings on allocated wards
To support ward staff to ensure IRIS referrals are completed promptly
To provide information, advice and support to health care professionals, patients, relatives and others involved in patient care
To support the MDT to ensure timely and appropriate decisions in the discharge process
To facilitate the planning of complex discharges where sensitivity and persuasive skills are needed
To develop working relationships with external partners to enable discharge plans to be put into practice
To gain the knowledge to identify delays in the patient pathway and resolve problems identified
To attend daily board rounds on allocated wards, ensuring that EDD's are applied, monitored and adhered to
Use the EPIC system to progress discharge planning and record delays in patients discharge process

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.