Registered Nurse | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Winchester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Winchester is seeking a registered nurse to join their Discharge Lounge team. The role involves supporting patients at the end of their hospital journey, managing discharge processes, and ensuring smooth patient flow. Candidates should have relevant nursing qualifications and experience in patient care, with a commitment to sustainability and excellence in healthcare. Flexible working requests are welcomed.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with relevant qualifications.
• Ability to support patients in a healthcare setting.
• Experience in managing discharge processes is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Collect patients and support their discharge.
• Manage transport bookings and liaise with pharmacy.
• Assist patients with toileting and undertake observations.

Job description

Overview

The Discharge Lounge is looking for a registered nurse to join our small but friendly team on the Winchester site. Your role will be to support patients at the end of their hospital journey.

The Discharge lounge cares for up to 6 patients at any one time.

Responsibilities

• Collect patients from the area they are being discharged. This may include supporting the ward with washing the patients, dressing, gathering belongings and transferring to the discharge lounge.
• Managing the discharge processes, booking transport, liaising with pharmacy regarding TTO's etc.
• Assisting patients with toileting when needed.
• Undertake observations as needed and escalate if required.
• Coordinate patients that could come to the Discharge Lounge and ensure they are moved there in a timely manner to create patient flow.

About the Trust and service locations

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Climate action

Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action [e-mail].

Flexible working

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Nov 2025