Integrated Discharge Coordinator

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Salary packaging

Not-for-profit employer

Job summary

St Vincent's Private Hospital Toowoomba – Sydney CBD NSW is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS2) / Allied Health professional in a permanent full-time role focused on discharge planning and patient flow optimisation. The role manages complex transitions from hospital to community care, provides expert clinical input, and leads multidisciplinary teams within the Patient Flow Unit.

Salary ranges between AUD 128,301 and AUD 134,775 per year, with a strong emphasis on collaboration across

Qualifications

• Advanced discharge planning and care coordination experience in acute/sub-acute settings.
• Ability to lead across multidisciplinary teams and external providers.
• Strong leadership, analytical thinking, and priority management.
• Experience with patient flow management and service redesign.
• Proficiency in using data to improve patient and organisational outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate comprehensive discharge planning for complex patients.
• Provide advanced clinical assessment and evidence-based decision-making.
• Identify barriers to discharge and mitigate delays.
• Coordinate integrated care plans with internal and external providers.
• Lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams and support quality improvement.
• Drive initiatives to improve patient outcomes and service delivery.

Skills

Discharge planning

Care coordination

Patient flow

Integrated care models

Clinical leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Education

Registered Nurse with AHPRA

Allied health degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Electronic patient management systems

Job description

St Vincent's Private Hospital Toowoomba – Sydney CBD NSW

$128,301 - $134,775 a year

Full time

21h ago , from St Vincent's Private Hospital

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

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 programs for First Nations, homelessness, mental health, & drug and alcohol care
• Professional Advancement: Accelerate your career with study leave and Curran Foundation scholarships
• Health & Wellbeing: Fitness Passport, discounted private health, & cultural recognitions and celebrations
• Coming from NSW Health? Smooth transfer of your qualifying service and leave entitlements

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia

Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or have an Australia visa that grants you the work rights necessary for the role.

Equal opportunity

We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

As part of our commitment to reconciliation, we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply and join us in delivering care that heals body, mind, spirit and community.

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at ***************@svha.org.au