[ref. t38510517] Discharge Facilitator - Stoke-on-Trent
Job overview
There is an exciting opportunity to join the team on ward 109. We are advertising for a successful candidate to be part of our team in a position of a band 3 discharge facilitator.
Ward 109 has a team of expert nurses, health cares and multidisciplinary teams who play a key part in caring for our upper and lower gastro- intestinal patients.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be essential in supporting the nurse in charge, nurses and the wider MDT with the safe care whilst our service users are inpatients and to facilitate in safe, effective and timely discharge.
The role will include a requirement to complete a varied range of documents to facilitate and support with simple and complex discharges and to have excellent communication skills with the team, patients and their relatives.
We aim to give a seamless service in our team from point of admission through to discharge and create smooth flow of patients within our team.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research.We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected.In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will be essential in supporting the nurse in charge, nurses and the wider MDT with the safe care whilst our service users are inpatients and to facilitate in safe, effective and timely discharge.
The role will include a requirement to complete a varied range of documents to facilitate and support with simple and complex discharges and to have excellent communication skills with the team, patients and their relatives.
We aim to give a seamless service in our team from point of admission through to discharge and create smooth flow of patients within our team.
We take pride in the care we give to our patients and understand that all patients needs vary and involve the patients and their relatives in the decision making involving care and their discharge.
Person specification
Educational Cerificates
Essential criteria- Maths and English GCSE c or above
- Experience in the role or working in the health care setting
- NVQ in health care level 2 and above
- Knowledge of services that support in discharge processes in NHS trust and in the Community
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Essential criteria- Vocational Study NVQ study level 2 up to level 3 in health care
- Experience of working in an MDT
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