Team Coordinator -Discharge Facilitator

at  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This is a new exciting role with the Integrated Discharge Team. If you have an interest in discharge services and are passionate about patient care, this is the job for you!
We are looking for a proactive and motivated individuals who enjoy and are passionate about discharge and discharge planning for our patients that are in our care. The successful candidates will be working in a challenging and busy environment to support the Integrated Discharge team.
You will be based across both sites Royal Preston Hospital & Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital. You will be part of the IDS team, supporting the Integrated discharge manager.
You be expected to manage discharges from the hospital and assist with the co-ordination of them in line with national and locally agreed standards and guidelines, also ensuring queries from patients and their families are responded to in a timely and appropriate way.
You will work closely with the Cancer nurse specialists and the cancer support workers, ensuring that all discharges are facilitated in accordance with Trust and local policies.
Eventually, you will provide training and support to new and ongoing Discharge Facilitators within the team, and develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with clinicians, nursing staff, and mangers within Trust Wide and externally.
Undertaking return to work interviews following staff sick leave in line with Trust policy, providing advice and support as required and giving feedback in a manner likely to maintain and improve performance.
We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You will have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet great people and do things you would never have done.
You will make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold and help innovate to keep improving our services. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Provide training and direct line management support and supervision of the discharge facilitators, ensuring strict compliance with Trust policies and procedures.
Ensuring that discharge facilitators are trained and have ongoing training to ensure we are delivering an excellent service.
Work with the Clinical Manager Integrated Discharge Service to ensure robust service delivery, including ward cover and rota compliance.
Work to the Universal Personalised Care model , specifically the key component of Social Prescribing. Acting as a social prescribing link worker for cancer you will support discharge by referring people to a range of local non-clinical services such as activities, groups, and services in their community
Linking the discharge team with voluntary, community, faith and social groups and work closely with primary care teams to support the patient through discharge, improving the cancer patient experience and transition to community services
Identify appropriate community services, and working in collaboration, agree method of easy referral to local agencies
Monitor and report on the number of referrals and evaluate how the referral supported the patient experience/outcome

Please refer the Job description for details