Discharge Nurse

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Discharge Nurse to expand our Home Safe Team at NSECH. The successful applicant will work alongside our front of house teams , acute wards on site and base site wards to help ensure effective discharge planning and also assess patients for one of our 3 Rehabilitation units across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
We are looking to recruit motivated, enthusiastic and innovative individuals to help deliver and develop this model within our organisation. The successful candidates will play a central role within the MDT to ensure high quality, recovery focussed care is delivered to our service users within Northumberland and North Tyneside.
The organisation adopts a Home First, Discharge to Assess approach and will work closely with our Social Care, Community Therapy and Community Nursing Teams to ensure that personalised care plans are in place to avoid patients being admitted/readmitted back into the hospital environment.
The post holder will be required to work flexibly to cover the service hours of 7 days a week between the hours of 8am-8pm.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 Discharge Nurse to join the Home Safe team. Based at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the successful applicant will work in an integrated multi-disciplinary team that proactively facilitates a safe, effective and timely patient discharge and aims to prevent re-admission. The team will be working into North Tyneside and Northumberland.
The successful applicant must have excellent communication skills and be able to work on their own initiative and as part of a team. Experience in working with adults and knowledge of the Care Act and safeguarding procedures would be an advantage.
Applicants must be Registered Nurse and be able to demonstrate ongoing professional development. Applicants must be able to meet the transport requirements of the post.
Successful applicants will have access to regular management and reflective supervision, annual appraisal’s and professional development opportunities.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
As part of a single, multidisciplinary team, the post holder will provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help to avoid unnecessary admission and readmission to hospital.
The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team working in the community and hospital setting in order to make the patient discharge pathway as seamless as possible and carry out urgent assessment within a patient’s home.
The post holder will be required to provide high quality nursing care to patients with a range of complex care and rehabilitation needs.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

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