Role Overview
The post holder will have a pivotal responsibility in identifying, supporting, and facilitating the early discharge of patients through the utilisation of remote monitoring technology.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across both acute and community settings will be essential to determine patient suitability for early supported discharge, while ensuring safe, effective, and person‑centred care delivery.
This role is integral to admission avoidance, minimising hospital length of stay, and enhancing patient outcomes via technology‑enabled care.
Responsibilities
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across both acute and community settings to determine patient suitability for early supported discharge, while ensuring safe, effective, and person‑centred care delivery.
* Participate actively in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and discharge planning sessions.
* Coordinate the safe onboarding process for patients, ensuring comprehensive understanding and engagement.
* Develop and integrate innovative digital pathways consistent with the Digital Care Hub Strategy.
* Work closely with Digital Care Hub Team to ensure high quality referrals, accurate handovers and safe onboarding of patients onto remote monitoring pathways.
* Participate in daily huddles to identify patients suitable for early supported discharge using remote monitoring technology.
* Identify and assess patients suitable for early supported discharge and remote monitoring.
* Provide day‑to‑day coordination of outreach activity, ensuring effective communication between acute, community and Digital Care Hub team.
* Coordinate safe onboarding of patients, ensuring understanding and engagement.
* Support safe transition of patients from hospital to community setting with appropriate monitoring plans in place.
* Provide patient and carer education on remote monitoring equipment and digital engagement.
* Act as a clinical liaison between the Digital Care Hub, community teams and acute services to ensure seamless communication and continuity of care.
* Lead on the development and implementation of new digital pathways that align with Digital Care Hub services.
* Develop good Trust‑wide working relationships and communicate effectively with nursing colleagues and members of the multi‑disciplinary team.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long‑term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
About Airedale
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once‑in‑a‑career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state‑of‑art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come.
We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Benefits
* Cycle to Work
* Travel Scheme
* Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
* Onsite Nursery
* Buying and Selling Annual Leave
* Car Leasing
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee Health and Wellbeing
* Extensive Reward Scheme
* Counselling Service
* Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
* Staff Networks: Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality, Ecoaware & Admin Network
Values
* Committed to Quality of Care
* Compassion
* Working together for patients
* Improving Lives
* Everyone Counts
* Respect and Dignity
Qualifications
* Able to perform holistic assessment of patients to ascertain suitability for early supported discharge and remote monitoring.
* Able to design and implement new digital pathways.
* Coordinate daily workload and outreach priorities.
* Demonstrates professional accountability and adheres to the NMC/HCPC Code of Professional Conduct.
* Participates in the multi‑professional review of patients who have been referred to the DCH service, including those recently discharged from the hospital.
* Maintain accurate electronic patient records in line with the NMC Record Keeping Guidelines, ANHSFT Health Records policy and the Records Management Code of Practice 2020.
* Offer help and advice to patients, families and carers responding to their individual needs in a caring and supportive manner.
* Adhere to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust's policies and procedures relating to the Clinical Governance Framework.
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard or Basic £26.40) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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