Palliative Care Discharge Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

The post is acute hospital based.

It provides support for colleagues, patients and their families Trust wide and where required advice and support to the community teams.

The Fast Track discharge service will enable better coordination of discharges and will allow more patients to die in their place of choice, aiming to reduce the in the number of deaths in hospital where possible or appropriate.

The post holder will have clear links to community services building on the existing close working relationship between the hospital and community palliative care teams sharing relevant information to ensure quality care for patients and seamless return home from the acute sector.

This post also requires close consistent and continuous links with commissioners and other agents linked to the NHS funding process.

It also involves working closely with relatives and significant others to ensure a seamless and safe transition of care to the required discharge destination.

This post will be 9-5 Monday to Friday.

Effectively assess, plan and provide specialist care and support to facilitate the discharge of patients with limited life expectancy from the acute into the community setting to work as part of the multidisciplinary team and foster good working relationships with other healthcare professionals and service users
Work as part of the multidisciplinary team and foster good working relationships with other healthcare professionals and service users assessment in collaboration
Undertake the holistic assessment in collaboration and support with other team members in order to plan and deliver a high standard of specialist palliative care
Work within statutory legislation and local policies and procedures in relation to discharge planning and palliative care
To deliver best practice in the discharge process through meeting the needs of this patient group by optimising the patient and carer experience
To act as a resource, educator and advocate for patients, their carers and health care professionals
To work within Trust policies framework and national guidelines
To participate in audit and researchNorth Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care.

We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Work collaboratively within the team and across the hospital to provide a continuing supportive service to optimise quality care to those, their carers and significant others who have palliative and End of Life care requirements
Recognise and take appropriate action in issues related to the Mental capacity Act and safeguarding.
Places quality at the heart of practice by delivering evidence based individualised care, through holistic needs assessment, planning and evaluation of care to meet national guidelines
Provide specialist support, guidance, and advice to the multidisciplinary team on complex palliative and end of life care patients needs for discharge planning
To provide and offer a wide range of information and support to patients and their family and/or carers. This includes access and utilisation of and signposting to services internally and externally
Provides specialist support guidance and advice on complex palliative, end of life care and patient needs for discharge planning
Undertake an initial assessment of patients within 24 hours of referral to identify priority of need
To competently act as the patients advocate and assist patients in understanding their disease and treatments available to them, to support them to make informed choices about their care
Enable complex palliative/end of life care discharges of patients who are resident outside of the local boroughs by liaising with appropriate teams such as CCGs and Community medical and nursing teams
Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high standards of personcentered care and using the underpinning philosophy of cocreating care with
Actively promotes referrals of patients within the hospital who are eligible for NHS funded care through the fasttrack process.
Attends weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and contributes to the discharge discussions of the patients
Collate and interprets quantitative and qualitative data to provide evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality. Is able to uti