Job overview
The Discharge Liaison Nurse Team is excited to advertise a rare opportunity for an experienced nurse to join us to provide support various wards in Oxford University Hospital. The post holder aims to facilitate effective, efficient and timely discharge of patients from hospital.
As a member of this creative team you will be required to assess (in conjunction with the wider multi-disciplinary team) the health and social needs of patients and make recommendations for their onwards care provision.
Each patient varies according to need and therefore it is paramount that you can be flexible in how you anticipate the delivery of care and that you are able to think with and support patients/families/carers to achieve their own individual positive outcomes.
Communication is an area of utmost importance to ensure all relevant parties are aware of plans and you may be exposed to sensitive, difficult conversations where there are disagreements.
Information sharing between organisations is key; therefore the applicant should be able to maintain and share concise records using a number of different computer systems.
We are a busy team often working away from Base and so the post holder will need to feel comfortable with a high level of autonomy and be both skilled at managing conflicting priorities as well as confident in their practice.
Main duties of the job
• To work towards a culture of reducing the number of avoidable admissions and delayed
transfers of care, in partnership with primary and secondary care, social services and
voluntary organisations.
• To work across professional boundaries, maintaining positive communication links
between community and secondary care staff, social services, private and voluntary
sector workers and allied health professions to promote collaborative working.
• To ensure that patients have an up to date discharge plan commenced on admission,
which is patient cantered and carried out in a timely manner, taking actions to reduce
any potential delays.
• Provide advice to all partners with a ‘key relationship’ and patients/carers/relatives on
progressing safe and appropriate discharge and the services available to support this
• To promote an ethos of admission avoidance through use of ambulatory pathways.
• To be involved in developing and maintaining discharge documentation and audits.
• To provide education and support to ward staff in clinical settings on current
legislation, discharge planning, and NICE guidance.
• To design, develop and deliver appropriate training packages.
• To be involved in the collection and presentation of inpatients delayed transfer of care
information focusing on longest stayers
• To co-manage the Discharge Coordinators
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
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