Discharge Liaison Officer | York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in York seeks a self-motivated Discharge Liaison Officer to join their Patient Flow team. The role involves working across various wards to facilitate timely patient discharges, collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams, and supporting staff and patients in discharge planning. Ideal candidates will be enthusiastic, proactive, and ready to adapt to service needs.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and motivated individual.
• Ability to build effective relationships with multidisciplinary teams.
• Proactive and flexible approach to working.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with ward staff and other healthcare professionals to optimize discharges.
• Facilitate timely and safe discharges from hospital to home or onward care settings.
• Support patients and staff in negotiating discharge plans.

Job description

Overview

Are you enthusiastic, motivated and looking for a new and exciting challenge? Do you want to develop and extend your skills and knowledge within a Discharge Liaison Team? If so then this could be the job for you! We are looking to recruit a self-motivated Discharge Liaison Officer. You will be part of the Patient Flow team, working across the acute medical, surgical or Elderly wards to optimise discharges and support patients and staff to negotiate discharge plans.

The Discharge Liaison Officer works closely with ward staff, Social Care, Continuing Health Care and the voluntary sector. You must be able to demonstrate collaborative working, as well as being able to build effective relationships with colleagues from other healthcare professions. This role entails working closely with a wide multidisciplinary team, to facilitate the timely discharges of patients from the hospital environment. The post holder will need to have a "can do attitude", able to be flexible in their approach to working and be proactive.

To work within Bronze Command (BC), in partnership with staff at Scarborough Hospital, Vale of York CCG, Scarborough and Ryedale CCG, East Riding CCG, City of York County Council, North Yorkshire County Council, East Riding County Council, patients and their carers, to proactively support and facilitate timely and safe discharges from hospital to home or onward care settings. Although the role is ward based, you will be a cell of BC and allocated to a ward, on a rotational basis. This ward will change dependant on service need, as determined by the Patient Flow Manager (PFM).

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