Integrated Discharge Coordinator

St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne; Sydney; On-site; AUD 128,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Salary packaging benefits

Access to Kinghorn Cancer Centre

Job summary

St Vincent's Hospital Sydney is seeking an Integrated Discharge Coordinator to lead discharge planning for patients with complex clinical and psychosocial needs, ensuring safe, timely transitions from hospital to community care.

The role provides advanced clinical assessment, expert consultation, and evidence-based decision-making for patients, families, and teams across the patient journey. You will identify barriers early, coordinate interventions, and promote integrated care beyond discharge.

Qualifications

• Advanced experience in complex discharge planning and care coordination.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and with external providers.
• Strong leadership, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Experience in patient flow management and service redesign.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead discharge planning for complex patients to ensure safe transitions.
• Provide advanced clinical assessment and decision-making to support care.
• Identify barriers to discharge and mitigate delays.
• Coordinate referrals to internal and external services.
• Provide clinical leadership and mentor multidisciplinary teams.
• Drive quality improvement and new care models.

Skills

Discharge planning

Care coordination

Leadership

Education

RN registration with AHPRA

Postgraduate qualification in relevant clinical specialty

Allied Health degree (AHP4)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Electronic patient management systems

Job description

Job Description:

Role title: Integrated Discharge Coordinator

Role type: Permanent full time

Role grade: Clinical Nurse Specialist (Grade 2)/Allied Health Professional (Level 4)

Department and location: Patient Flow Unit, St Vincent's Public Hospital, Sydney

Salary: $ 128,301.89 - $132,523.13 (CNS2)/$131,585 - $134,775 (AHP4) + super.

Welcome to St Vincent's Hospital Sydney

Join a team built on a proud legacy of world-class care, true compassion, and deep community roots.

Founded by the Sisters of Charity and powered today by St Vincent's Health Australia, the Sisters' legacy of compassionate service is our living heartbeat. As Sydney's premier and iconic inner-city public hospital, we serve the entire population, providing world-class care to all people, including the most vulnerable in our community. Across our renowned precinct, we feature cutting-edge programs and surgery infrastructure, fostering clinical excellence and professional growth.

Located in the vibrant heart of Darlinghurst, we are positioned just minutes from Kings Cross station, with direct, high-frequency bus connections from the east, and seamless links from Gadigal and Museum stations right to our doorstep.

Read on to explore this exciting role and the fantastic perks waiting for you here.

About the role

Lead and coordinate comprehensive discharge planning for patients with complex clinical, psychosocial, and care needs, ensuring safe, timely, and person-centred transitions from hospital to community care.

Provide advanced clinical assessment, expert consultation, and evidence-based decision-making to support patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams throughout the patient journey.

Identify barriers to discharge early, implement proactive strategies to mitigate risk, and coordinate interventions that reduce delays, avoidable readmissions, and prolonged hospital stays.

Partner with medical, nursing, allied health, patient flow, and external service providers to develop and implement integrated care plans that support continuity of care beyond discharge.

Coordinate referrals to internal and external health, aged care, disability, and community support services, ensuring patients receive appropriate ongoing care and support.

Provide clinical leadership, education, mentoring, and specialist guidance to multidisciplinary teams, promoting best practice in complex discharge planning, patient flow, and care coordination.

Drive quality improvement initiatives, innovative models of care, and service development activities that enhance patient outcomes, improve organisational flow, and strengthen integrated care delivery.

About you

Demonstrated advanced experience in complex discharge planning, care coordination, patient flow, and integrated models of care within acute and/or sub-acute healthcare settings.

Proven ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and with external health, community, disability, and aged care providers to facilitate safe, timely, and person-centred transitions of care.

Highly developed leadership, critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, influence change, and contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Experience in patient flow management, discharge planning, service redesign, and the application of evidence-based practice and data to improve patient and organisational outcomes.

Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to effectively negotiate and collaborate with patients, carers, clinicians, and external partners.

Demonstrated commitment to clinical governance, professional development, quality improvement, research, and evidence-based practice, including the ability to provide leadership, education, mentoring, and support to multidisciplinary teams.

Ability to work autonomously, exercising a high level of professional judgement, clinical reasoning, and decision-making in complex care coordination environments.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and electronic patient management, referral, and documentation systems.

For CNS2 applicants:

Current registration as a Registered Nurse (Division 1) with AHPRA.

Relevant postgraduate qualification and a minimum of three years' experience in the relevant clinical specialty.

For AHP4 applicants:

Degree qualification in a recognised Allied Health profession.

Current registration with the relevant professional governing body (where applicable).

What we can offer you

Exceptional Rewards: Competitive pay and not-for-profit salary packaging to maximise your income

World-Class: Be part of a renowned precinct alongside the Garvan & Victor Chang institutes

Excellence: Premier heart/lung transplant program, advanced robotics, & pioneering HIV/AIDS initiatives

Cutting-Edge Oncology: Deliver advanced cancer care and trials at the renowned Kinghorn Cancer Centre

Community: Support vital progra