Band 6 Admissions & Discharges Coordinator Nurse

St George's University Hospitals; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a dedicated professional to manage patient admissions and complex discharges. You will coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe discharges and improve patient care. An understanding of safeguarding policies is essential. This role offers opportunities to actively contribute to a patient-focused environment within a respected foundation trust.

Responsibilities

• Admit patients and assess them preoperatively.
• Establish discharge planning to reduce length of stay and readmissions.
• Co-ordinate and manage complex discharges with the team.
• Ensure discharge planning meets patient needs through collaboration.
• Assess patients' discharge needs independently.
• Refer to therapy teams for rehabilitation needs.
• Chair multidisciplinary meetings for complex discharges.
• Liaise with Social Services for appropriate support.
• Support ward teams clinically as needed.

Job description

Responsibilities

• To admit patients and ensuring that all patients are assessed on the ward preoperatively.
• To establish and maintain robust multi-disciplinary discharge planning arrangements in order to discharge patients safely and reduce length of stay, delayed transfers of care and re-admissions.
• To proactively co-ordinate, review and case manage complex discharges and to facilitate simple discharges by engaging the multi-disciplinary ward team.
• To ensure the discharge planning process is responsive to the needs of patients and their carers by means of joint working with the relevant acute, community and allied support staff.
• To undertake assessment of patients to be admitted on the ward preoperatively and pre-procedure and assessing their discharge needs in appointed area of responsibility without supervision.
• Co-ordinate and refer to appropriate therapy team if rehabilitation required.
• Arrange and Chair Multidisciplinary team meetings for individual patients with very complex discharge needs.
• Refer and liaise with Social Service Department and other local agencies e.g., ICT as appropriate.
• Work clinically on the ward and other areas where appropriate and as required, supporting the ward teams.

Working for our organisation

The post-holder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of: Excellent, Kind, Responsible and Respect.
A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.
St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. All staff have a responsibility to be aware of safeguarding policies and to be able to identify concerns and know what action to take when necessary.