Discharge Planning Team Nurse Band 6

HCRG Care Group; Westhead; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health provider in the UK is seeking a proactive Band 6 Nurse to join their Discharge Planning Team. The role involves facilitating safe discharges from hospital to home or community care while ensuring all necessary arrangements for ongoing support are in place. Candidates must hold a valid NMC registration and possess strong clinical and interpersonal skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Competitive salary and benefits include NHS Pension and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to discounts via My Reward Hub

Supports mental and physical wellbeing

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse qualification essential.
• Current NMC registration required.
• Experience in patient transfer from acute to community care.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based clinical care to support patient discharges.
• Complete Trusted Assessment Documents autonomously.
• Support patients through the discharge process.
• Ensure excellent levels of customer service for all patients.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Time management

Person-centered care

Person-centered care

Education

Registered General Nurse qualification

Current and valid NMC registration

Tools

IT Skills

Job description

Are you a proactive, compassionate nurse with a talent for navigating complex care pathways and helping patients move safely and confidently to the next stage of their recovery? Our Discharge Planning Team is looking for an exceptional Band 6 Nurse to join us in shaping seamless, person-centered transitions from hospital to home or community care. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love collaborative working, and are driven by making a real difference at a critical point in a patient's journey, we'd love to hear from you. You will facilitate safe and timely discharges out of the Acute Hospital Trust to the patients preferred place of care. You will ensure the appropriate funding and equipment is in situ prior to discharge and liaise with all system partners that will support the ongoing discharge as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide the highest standard of evidence based clinical care to patients to support safe and timely discharges.
• Work as a clinically autonomous practitioner supporting the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate safe, effective patient flow.
• Autonomously complete Trusted Assessment Documents and continuing health care Fastrack assessments to ensure that the appropriate plan is in place for discharge to the patient's preferred place of care.
• Have a good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and your roles and responsibilities regarding this.
• Ensure excellent levels of customer service for all patients, relatives, and staff and demonstrate improvements in quality and patient experience.
• Share skills/knowledge with other disciplines and patients/carers.
• Demonstrate highly developed clinical reasoning and decision-making.
• Support all aspects of discharge paperwork and the planning and management of effective and timely patient discharge and transfer for patients with complex discharge needs.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Registered General Nurse qualification.
• Current and valid NMC registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Evidence of post registration experience and development.
• Demonstrate problem solving skills and decision making to manage risk.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and can demonstrate person-centered care.
• Knowledge of up-to-date NHS issues, Clinical Governance and its application within nursing.
• Experience supporting patients transfer from acute to community/home care (Health and Social Care).
• Ability to work autonomously and as an effective team member.
• Ability to work under pressure with evidence of effective time management and organisational skills.
• Committed and self-motivated.
• Positive attitude towards change.

Desirable Skills

• Postgraduate qualification in discharge planning/patient flow.
• Evidence of working with partners, 3rd sector organisations and wider multidisciplinary working.
• Understanding of the new NHS Agenda.
• In-depth working knowledge of the NHS Continuing Healthcare process.
• Experience in complex discharge planning.
• In-depth working knowledge of the Community Care Act (Delayed Transfers of Care).
• Effective teaching and presentation skills.
• Mentorship qualification.

Other Requirements

• Excellent IT skills.
• Full driving licence and access to a car.
• Ability to work across a range of local sites.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.

Benefits

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cash‑back and voucher offers.
• 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 to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 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. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you can expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.