Job overview
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Responsibilities
* Act as a link between the wards and community teams/services for discharge planning.
* Maintain strict confidentiality with regards to patient/family/staff records and information in line with the Data Protection Act.
* Adhere to CPFT risk assessment, risk management, infection control policies and procedures.
* Provide patients and families/carers with information on standards they should expect from the team and discharge planning training programmes.
* Identify, monitor, investigate and record reasons for delayed discharges and review ways of working with multi-disciplinary teams to reduce delays.
* Participate in clinical and other audits as required.
* Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by CPFT.
* Adhere to CPFT information Governance and information Security policies for any data transported, shared or transferred electronically.
Qualifications
Education
* AHP/Social Work – relevant degree/diploma and registration
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Continuing Health Care assessment training
Experience
* Significant amount of months post registration
* Working within older adults
* Previous experience of undertaking assessments and evaluating needs
* Experience of working in an acute setting
Skills & Abilities
* Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
* Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
* Able to assess plan and implement care
* Good IT skills and ability to communicate through Microsoft Teams or Skype to engage family members and other professionals when they are not able to visit the ward
* Time Management and prioritisation skills
* Audit, Research, Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
* Seeks and uses professional support appropriately, understands the principle of confidentiality, SystmOne
Employer
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
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