Discharge Flow co ordinator

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Flexible working approach, Enthusiastic and motivated
• Initiative to identify own learning needs
• Ability to follow systems and procedures
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The post holder will be based on Reablement Unit and will be responsible for co-ordinating daily discharges and achieve early movement into vacated beds from acute wards to support patient flow.The post holder will attend all MDT meetings to establish an accurate discharge profile for the day, and will work with MDT to ensure that all patients are safely discharged to the appropriate place of care in a timely manner, utilising the discharge lounge where appropriate.
The post holder will be expected to utilise operational knowledge and administrative skills as necessary to undertake this role in order to assist clinical and non-clinical staff member They will be expected to liaise regularly with operational site team by providing regular updates on confirmed discharges; further potential discharges; and bed availability.
To work with all internal and external stakeholders to promote effective processes to facilitate discharge and support patient flow.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit