Discharge Nurse

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in London is seeking a Discharge Nurse to facilitate the safe discharge of complex patients from hospital to community settings. The role involves coordinating assessments, supporting discharge plans, and providing specialist advice to care teams. Candidates should possess nursing qualifications along with strong communication and organizational skills. This position emphasizes collaboration within a multidisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Must have nursing qualifications and experience in discharge planning.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate safe and effective discharges of complex patients from hospital to community.
• Coordinate assessments and support discharge plans.
• Provide specialist advice to wards and the multidisciplinary teams.

Job description

Overview

The Discharge Nurse will be responsible for facilitating safe and effective discharges of complex patients from hospital to a community setting through a multidisciplinary approach. They will co-ordinate assessments of patients and support the discharge plan. The Discharge Nurse will have a caseload of the most complex clients and will be responsible for completing and coordinating assessments and discharge plans for this group of patients, ensuring that all parties are updated at all times. This group of patients includes but is not exclusive to homeless patients, ensuring that the correct pathway is followed and that the trust are in receipt of any changes to legislation or the process, complex patients requiring either specialist rehabilitation or placement, ensuring that the correct pathway and funding streams are applied for and adhered to incorporating any changes to legislation or process, overseas patients with no access to public funds requiring intervention from the Home Office or repatriation to their country of origin.

The postholder will be responsible for providing specialist advice and support to the wards and the MDTs in managing effective discharge. They will take the lead in family and professionals meetings providing guidance and support to both professional colleagues and patients/families, active input and support to the MDTs for each ward and ensure feedback on actions assigned. To facilitate effective multi-disciplinary discharge planning and processes as an integral part of care management throughout all the divisions. Demonstrate a high level of clinical judgement and act autonomously, tracking and assisting in completion of referrals where necessary, of all patients referred to ensure supporting referrals are completed in a timely and efficient way and that they progress on to the next stage of their pathway as soon as possible. Ensure that patients that are going to another provider for care, do so with the right information, consumables and equipment.

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsibilities

• RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT: To participate in the operational implementation of policy and service development within the team if required. To ensure both trust policies and procedures are adhered to at all times. To contribute to the development of trust policies as and when required.
• RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES: To have budgetary awareness for the service and the cost implications of the use of bank and agency. To ensure non-pay expenditure to a minimum whilst maintaining a high standard of patient care.
• RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEADING AND MANAGING: To be accountable for own professional actions and act as a role model. To act as a resource and educate and inform others in area. To attend any such training courses that are required, to extend knowledge and skills and to keep up to date with professional developments. To be responsible for the dissemination of information regarding new or updated clinical practices, guidelines and policies to all nursing staff. To participate in training needs analysis for own area.

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients. Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation. Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We\'re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.