Discharge Specialist Practitioner

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join a leading healthcare provider as a Discharge Specialist Practitioner. The role involves optimizing bed utilization, providing expert advice on complex discharge planning, and working alongside multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective patient transitions. Ideal for candidates with extensive experience in discharge processes in acute settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in complex discharge planning and facilitating.
• Knowledge of patient management and frailty.
• Post graduate management training is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice on complex discharge planning.
• Lead daily discharge hub calls with system partners.
• Assess and identify discharge pathways for patients.

Skills

Complex discharge planning

Multidisciplinary team working

Patient management

Job description

Go back St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Discharge Specialist Practitioner

The closing date is 16 July 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a registered Occupational therapist or Physiotherapist to join us as a Discharge Specialist Practitioner within the Integrated Care Transfer Hub.

This key post will, together with the discharge specialist nurses within the TOC hub, be integral in optimising the bed utilisation for all patients who no longer meet the criteria to reside, both on the acute hospital site and on Mary Seacole and Gwynne Holford wards at our Queens Mary's Hospital site. The role will also provide support to increase the number of discharges directly from these departments. The clinical experience of the successful candidate will help to provide both support and critical challenge to the multidisciplinary ward teams in planning for and completing patient discharges. This post will also support with the role out of our new discharge process of Prescribe not Describe model.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will exercise high levels of judgement, discretion and decision making within the complex discharge process for a wide variety of patients and their needs.

As an experienced autonomous practitioner, they will provide expert advice on complex discharge planning to staff members and partnership agencies, patients and their relatives and carers.

To have specialist assessment skills and be able to use their comprehensive knowledge to identify the most appropriate discharge pathway for patients in the acute setting.

To have excellent knowledge of discharge pathways and be able to work as part of the MDT to support patients with complex discharge needs, whilst ensuring that each patient is provided with the appropriate level of care and support needed to meet their individual needs on discharge.

To participate in daily operational and management activities, including leading daily discharge hub calls with system partners.

The post holder will be the case manager for complex patients . Provide professional support to ward discharge co-ordinators, discharge support workers and patient discharge facilitators.

The post holder will assist with the role out of our new model of working "Describe not Prescribe". The post holder will be expected to internally triage D2A referrals, discuss during daily meetings with social care and CLCH and then as an MDT, prescribe the patients care on discharge.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Please note that this job may close prior to the end date advertised if a sufficient number of applicants apply.

Person Specification

experience of a wide range of approaches to the discharge of complex patients

• Experience of complex discharge planning and facilitating
• Knowledge of complex patient management and frailty
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Post graduate management training
• Experience of Social Services equipment provision
• Experience of Intermediate Care Team or community working
• oUnderstanding of Clinical Governance and implications for patient discharge including experience of quality issues

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Blackshaw Road Tooting – London SW17 0QT

Blackshaw Road Tooting – London SW17 0QT

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Blackshaw Road Tooting – London SW17 0QT

Blackshaw Road Tooting – London SW17 0QT