Closing date: 01 July 2026
Nurse Consultant - Discharge to Assess Services
Job summary
We are seeking an innovative Nurse Consultant to provide strategic and clinical leadership across our Discharge to Assess (D2A) services. This pivotal role focuses on improving patient flow, reducing length of stay, and delivering truly integrated, person‑centred care across health and social care systems.
The role will be based at Haywood Hospital, Stoke‑on‑Trent, with opportunities to work across the wider system and influence the development of D2A pathways.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert clinical leadership across the D2A pathway, ensuring safe, timely, and effective discharge from hospital settings
- Lead complex clinical decision‑making, supporting admission avoidance and optimising patient outcomes
- Influence and drive system‑wide service transformation, working across organisational boundaries
- Champion integrated working, ensuring seamless transitions of care for patients with complex and multi‑factorial needs
- Lead service improvement initiatives to reduce length of stay, readmissions and delays in discharge
- Provide consultancy‑level expertise to multidisciplinary teams across the D2A pathways
- Lead the education, training and competency development of ANP and ACP colleagues
- Deliver expert autonomous practice, assessing and managing patients with highly complex physical, cognitive and social needs
- Work collaboratively across acute, community, primary care and social care services to ensure integrated, person‑centred care
- Champion quality improvement, patient safety and clinical governance, ensuring services are evidence‑based and continuously improving
- Contribute to system‑wide planning and partnerships, influencing strategy across the Trust, ICB and wider health and care system
- Represent the service at local, regional and national levels, promoting best practice in discharge, frailty and integrated care
Person Specification
Essential
- NMC registration
- Relevant MSc or equivalent experience
- Significant experience of working within D2A services
- Demonstrated specialist level of expertise in D2A services/pathways
- Experience of leadership
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
Desirable
- Formal coaching or mentoring training
- Experience of leading teams through change
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Applications will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require a Skilled Worker sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Haywood Hospital, High Lane, Stoke on Trent, ST6 7AG, United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.mpft.nhs.uk
