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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced individual to join our Care Transfer Hub. The position is an ideal opportunity for Nursing Associates, Social Care Practitioners or Allied Health Support Workers, to shape this new service for our patients.
Shropshire Community Health Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to work within the Integrated Health and Social Care Discharge Team based at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust sites. The team is expanding and this is an ideal opportunity to be involved in the transformation of the service and work with the existing skilled team in the specialist field of Complex Discharge.
The successful applicants will be key members of the multidisciplinary health and social care Discharge Team.
We expect the very best from our staff – in return we can offer you the opportunity to work alongside experts to help you further develop your clinical skills, contributions towards CPD including external opportunities as service delivery allows, and an exceptionally rewarding job opportunity in one of the most beautiful yet dynamic parts of the Country.
The Discharge Support Worker will be instrumental in the support of identification, assessment and discharge of patients with complex needs from the hospital setting, agreeing the discharge pathway and services including home and bed based reablement services, urgent community response (UCR) services including admission avoidance /virtual wards and community teams. The post holder will support co-ordination and navigate the patient across pathways to ensure timely discharge for patients deemed fit for discharge.
The post holder will work within the Care Transfer Hub providing a community focused approach to discharge planning and assessment, embracing the principles of a Discharge to Assess Model and providing a person-centred approach to care.
The role and service offer integration and partnership working with team managers, nurses, therapists, health and social care coordinators across both organisations to ensure a seamless service.
The successful applicant will be supported by the Community and Acute Hospital Service Managers in the Integrated Discharge teams service development, working with the team in clinical, health care and social care practice, providing knowledge, skills and experience of acute and community health care to our patients to achieve timely and safe discharge from hospital.
The service operates 8am –8pm, 7 days a week, this post includes bank holidays and weekend working as part of the clinical team rota with cross site working.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.