Rapid Community Discharge – Discharge Facilitator

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with the Rapid Community Discharge Service based at RBH. We are looking to recruit a band 6 discharge facilitator for the Rapid Community Discharge.
You will be working as part of a small team who work across 7 days a week Monday – Sunday to support and enable the effective flow of patients from the acute hospital ensuring successful and timely onward transition to the next step in the patient’s pathway.
This role entails working with multi-systems partners to ais patients’ safe discharges from the acute unit to various community settings. You will be working closely with the organisation, integrated teams, key stakeholders, and partners.
You will be responsible for helping in developing junior staff, supporting, and managing the digital medically optimised caseload with support of the Team Leads.
Excellent communication is a key skill required for the role; you will have previous experience of working in the NHS.
You will have excellent organizational and computer skills and be able to demonstrate an ability to navigate various systems and software packages.
The post holder will work as a senior discharge facilitator for the Rapid Community Discharge Team based at RBH
The postholder will need to work closely with key stakeholders within the Acute Trust – delivering a community driven, discharge to assess approach to discharge – enabling the effective flow of patients into the right service at the right time.
The team will work to ensure a seamless interface between RBH colleagues identifying patients medical fit for discharge, and then ready to leave hospital.
As discharge facilitator you will ensure successful and timely onward transition to the next step in a patients pathway – this will include liaising with ward based OT’s, flow coordinators assigned to in – patient wards and complex case managers working on the early identification of patient prior to becoming medically fit . Facilitators are expected to work autonomously to manage patient discharges on every shift - taking appropriate actions to achieve a safe and timely discharge.
Whilst on shift the postholder will assist with all administrative functions to support effective discharge of patients
Maintain all office systems both electronic and hard copy across the service.
Assist in the efficient and accurate recording of data on electronic systems (RIO, Teams ESR Agresso, e- Manager ?
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

OUR VALUES AT BERKSHIRE HEALTHCARE ARE:

Caring for and about you is our top priority
Committed to providing good quality, safe services
Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
Flexible working options to support work-life balance
27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
Generous NHS pension scheme
Excellent learning and career development opportunities
‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
Free parking across Trust sites
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required

Please refer the Job description for details