Junior Sister - Care Coordination Hospital Inreach | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; Sur place; GBP 33 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Junior Sister to join the Care Coordination Hospital Inreach team. You will work across our hospital and community sites to lead discharge planning and ensure safe, timely transfers from hospital to home.

You will drive service improvements, supervise junior staff, and travel between New Cross Hospital and community settings. A UK driving licence and live NMC registration are essential.

Qualifications

• NMC registration is essential.
• Experience in discharge planning and service improvement desirable.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car.

Responsabilités

• Lead discharge planning across hospital and community sites.
• Promote safe and timely discharges into the community.
• Develop and lead inreach service improvements.
• Work autonomously to implement and monitor outcomes over 12 months.

Connaissances

Discharge planning

Service improvement

Leadership

Autonomous working

Community liaison

Formation

NMC registered nurse

Description du poste

Junior Sister - Care Coordination Hospital Inreach | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Would you like to work in a dynamic, flexible and forward-thinking team – ready to adapt and accommodate every eventuality to meet patients needs safely in the community? If so, Care Coordination is the team for you! Our drive and determination to meet the needs of our patients meant that we were HSJ award finalists in September 2022.

Are you seeking a new challenge or looking to work in a different care setting with exposure to new opportunities? We are offering an exciting position for a Band 6 Junior Sister to join the Care Coordination Team to work in our Hospital Inreach Service.

The Care Coordination Inreach Team work across our acute and community sites to help streamline patient discharges. The team visit the acute site daily (New Cross Hospital) attending a wide range of wards to identify patients who will need community support on discharge and take the lead with discharge planning for identified patients. Our aim is to achieve a safe, timely and seamless transition from hospital to home for our patients. Candidates must have a passion for service improvement and be motivated to promote, deliver and ensure success of the inreach service. Experience in service improvement and leadership is desirable as the post will involve the successful candidate working autonomously to implement, promote and deliver the inreach service with measurable set outcomes throughout the 12 months.

Applicants must be confident to promote safe and timely discharges into the community and lead with discharge planning (including liaising with MDT, patients and their families).

Candidates must have a UK driving license, business insurance and own a car they can use for work purposes. The post will require frequent travel across community sites and to New Cross and West Park Hospitals. Applicants must have a live NMC registration.

We can offer:

A dedicated and robust 4 week super-numery induction

Support to enable you to be an autonomous and independent practitioner

Support so you can manage your own working day

The opportunity to be part of and lead with new and exciting developments in our inreach service

Support so that you are confident to bring new ideas forward and transfer your skills to our teams

Autonomy to lead on changes to improve and develop our inreach service

Support with funding for professional development

Technology to help support you to do your job along with support to develop skills in using technology and different web based applications

Exposure to complex case management of patients, including patients who are suitable for a D2A pathway

Professional advocacy sessions and regular supervision

An established team of experienced nurses to help you settle in and support your transition in becoming a valued member of our team

A sound knowledge base of acute and community services will be required for this role, including knowledge of services available in the Wolverhampton area delivered by a variety of organisations. Holistic triage and assessment skills will also be essential so that ongoing care needs can be identified for patients.

Please see the attached job description for further details, and for informal visits and more information about this role please contact Service Delivery Manager Leanne Webb. Informal visits are encouraged and we look forwards to hearing from you soon.

This advert closes on Wednesday 14 Oct 2026