Discharge Co-ordinator
Discharge Co-ordinator
The closing date is 14 April 2026
Ready for a New Challenge? Join Us as a Discharge Coordinator!
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are looking for dedicated and proactive Discharge Coordinators to join our dynamic team. This is your opportunity to play a vital role in patient care and hospital flow.
What You’ll Do:
* Support the Discharge to Assess process, ensuring safe and timely discharges.
* Help maintain flow and capacity across the Trust.
* Work across all clinical areas and provide cover at King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Community Hospital, and Newark Hospital.
What We’re Looking For:
* Excellent communication skills and a calm, adaptable approach.
* Self‑motivated and able to respond quickly to changing situations.
* A clear understanding of discharge pathways and awareness of social care and health processes (full training provided).
* A full driving licence is essential as you’ll travel between sites.
Why Join Us?
* Be part of a supportive team making a real difference in patient care.
* Enjoy a varied role across multiple hospital sites.
* Full training and development opportunities provided.
Working Pattern:
Seven‑day service, including bank holidays.
Shifts include 8:00 am‑4:00 pm and 8:30 am‑4:30 pm.
If you’re passionate about improving patient experiences and thrive in a fast‑paced environment, apply now and help us shape outstanding care!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award‑winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically‑led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs – GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good standard of general education including GCSE English or equivalent
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent.
* Audit Knowledge
* ECDL
* NVQ in Promoting independence or equivalent in Care.
* NVQ in Health and Social Care.
Further training
* Willing to undertake further training for personal development and for knowledge and skills development.
* Mandatory training
* Understanding of the Delayed transfer of care act.
* Understanding of the national framework for NHS continuing Health Care.
* Knowledge of Medway
Experience
* Ability to work as a member of a team, to cope with stress, to be self‑motivated and to be structured regarding work schedules.
* Skills and confidence to represent the Trust on a multi agency basis.
* Good communicator and adaptable and able to cope with change.
* Professional Manner, adaptability, flexibility and ability to multi‑task.
* Desire to achieve and sustain high standards.
* Patient and calm approach.
Knowledge
* Experience in managing patient flow.
* Community resource experience
* NHS social care or similar background
* Care experience
* Previous experience of admission/discharge processes
* Knowledge of Trust policies
Contractual requirements
* Able to work flexibly within the hours of the department to meet the demands of the service.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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