Oswestry Contract Part time Job Introduction: We are recruiting a Discharge Coordinator based in our Community Hospital at St Martins Hospital. Working as part of BaNES Care Coordination Centres Flow Team, you will provide exceptional service support for discharges from acute and community hospitals into community services.
Working closely with nurses, therapists, social workers, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), you will ensure the discharge process is timely and maintain communication regarding patients' discharge journeys. You will also ensure accurate and updated records are maintained to provide information related to discharge activity, demand, and capacity.
Main Responsibilities
* Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, maintaining responsibility for good communication between all services involved in discharge, driving safe and timely discharge by ensuring all administration work is completed proactively.
* Ensure patients and their families are aware of the discharge process and pathways, including expected timeframes for discharge and reasons for potential delays.
* Attend Huddles and MDT meetings, recording actions taken and discharge readiness on the clinical system.
* Attend professional and family meetings, recording minutes on relevant paperwork.
* Monitor predicted dates of discharge and pathways for all patients at the Community Hospital, ensuring patients are registered on the clinical system.
* Demonstrate excellent communication skills, written, verbal, and non-verbal, adapting your approach to build authentic, proactive working relationships.
* Be highly organized to enable effective case management and review, allowing for the reduction of care provision and early identification of longer-term care needs.
* Work in a time-critical manner to enable discharge within 48 hours from the point at which the patient is able to be discharged.
* Provide kind and compassionate care to all service users and their families.
* Identify any blockages in service provision and escalate these to the Team Leader and Clinical Lead.
* Have excellent IT skills, with the ability and desire to learn new Clinical System platforms.
About Us
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. We deliver and transform adult and children's community health services, primary care services, and adult social care and wellbeing services.
Benefits
* A salary of £23,875 with access to our group pension
* Free tea and coffee at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts and cashback offers
* Access to your wages as you earn them
* Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development
* The pride of working for an organization committed to the highest clinical and quality standards
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, and we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive as possible.
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