Job overview
The post holder will be a clinical educator for the Discharge Liaison team across all four sites whilst also covering the ED and EAU department at the John Radcliffe as a Discharge Liaison Nurse.
The Clinical Practice Educator (CPE) will identify training needs, plan, implement and evaluate educational activities for students, new starters and existing members of the Discharge Liaison Team. This role will also be to inform the wider OUH on current discharge pathways within the
The post‑holder will demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills commensurate with a clinical expert and effective leader; serve as a role-model; an agent of change and a facilitator of work-based learning.
Explicit within the role and the outcomes required of it, the CPE will work collegiately to ensure standards are established, implemented and sustained, particularly those related to staff knowledge, skills development and patient safety.
The post holder aims to facilitate effective, efficient and timely discharge of patients from hospital. Particular emphasis is placed upon complex multi-disciplinary assessments and case conferences including patients with complex health and social care, palliative care or rehabilitation needs.
Main duties of the job
• To work towards a culture of reducing the number of avoidable admissions and delayed
transfers of care, in partnership with primary and secondary care, social services and
voluntary organisations.
·To design, develop and deliver appropriate training packages.
• To work across professional boundaries, maintaining positive communication links
between community and secondary care staff, social services, private and voluntary
sector workers and allied health professions to promote collaborative working.
• To ensure that patients have an up to date discharge plan commenced on admission,
which is patient cantered and carried out in a timely manner, taking actions to reduce
any potential delays.
• Provide advice to all partners with a ‘key relationship’ and patients/carers/relatives on
progressing safe and appropriate discharge and the services available to support this
• To promote an ethos of admission avoidance through use of ambulatory pathways.
• To be involved in developing and maintaining discharge documentation and audits.
• To provide education and support to ward staff in clinical settings on current
legislation, discharge planning, and NICE guidance.
• To design, develop and deliver appropriate training packages.
• To be involved in the collection and presentation of inpatients delayed transfer of care
information focusing on longest stayers
• To co-manage the Discharge Coordinators
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
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