Discharge Coordinator

HCRG Care Group; Oswestry; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading community health organization in the United Kingdom is recruiting a Discharge Coordinator to ensure timely patient discharges from hospitals into community services. You will work closely with nurses and social workers, maintaining clear communication and monitoring discharge processes. This part-time role offers a salary of £23,875, access to a pension, and numerous benefits including mental and physical wellbeing support and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Access to group pension

Free tea and coffee

Discount hub membership

Wages access as earned

Wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Innovation funding

Qualifications

• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Experience in managing discharge processes.
• Strong record-keeping abilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain communication between services involved in discharge.
• Ensure patients are aware of the discharge process.
• Attend professional meetings and record minutes.
• Monitor predicted discharge dates and pathways.

Skills

Good communication

Team collaboration

Organizational skills

Job description

Are you looking for an exciting new role as a Discharge Coordinator? HCRG Care Group are recruiting a Discharge Coordinator based in our Community Hospital at St Martins Hospital. Working as part of BaNES Care Coordination Centres Flow Team you will be part of a small team of coordinators to provide exceptional, consistence levels of service support discharges from acute and community hospitals into community services. Working closely with nurses, therapists, social workers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) you will ensure the discharge process is timely and communication is maintained as to where patients are in their discharge journey. The role is ensuring in ensuring accurate and update records are maintained to provide information relation to discharge activity demand and capacity. Flow Discharge Coordinators are central in ensuring patients and family are kept up to date in regard to the expected discharge pathway. You will be based in St. Martin's Hospital however occasional travel to the Care Coordination Centre at Peasedown St John may be required. This is a fixed term position for 6 months and part-time opportunity working 32.5 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) maintaining responsibility for good communication between all services involved in discharge, driving safe and timely discharge by ensuring all administration work is completed proactively.
• Ensure people using our services are aware of the discharge process and pathways and expected timeframe for discharge providing an overview of reasons discharges can be delayed.
• Attend Huddles and MDT meetings recording actions taken and discharge readiness on the clinical system.
• Attend professional and family meetings, recording minutes on relevant paper work.
• Monitor predicted dates of discharge and pathways for all patients at Community Hospital ensuring patients are registered on the clinical system.

We change lives by transforming health and care.

About Us

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here.

Benefits

• A salary of £23,875 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year