Senior Discharge Liaison Nurse – Complex Care & Flow

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 27 days + holidays

NHS Pension Scheme with employer 23.7%

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Discharge Liaison Nurse to lead discharge planning within the Kent & Medway IC. You will act as a professional role model, mentor staff, develop education programmes, and support safe, timely discharges for patients with complex health and social care needs.

The role focuses on reducing delayed transfers of care, promoting partnerships across health and social care, leading the Transfer of Care Team, and ensuring adherence to Patient

Responsibilities

• Act as a professional role model and mentor for staff across the organisation.
• Develop and deliver education and training programmes relating to discharge planning and integrated working.
• Support the safe, timely, and effective discharge of patients.
• Reduce delayed transfers of care through proactive discharge planning.
• Promote excellent partnership working across health and social care systems.
• Provide operational and clinical leadership to the Transfer of Care Team, supporting high‑quality discharge planning services.
• Support patients, families, carers and ward teams in facilitating safe, timely discharges, particularly for those with complex needs.
• Take responsibility for managing complex discharge pathways within designated clinical areas.
• Lead the implementation of the Patient Choice Policy in relation to delayed discharges and complex care arrangements.
• Monitor patient pathways and identify delays in diagnostics, referrals, assessments and care provision, escalating concerns appropriately.
• Promote effective communication and collaborative working between multidisciplinary teams, community providers, social care colleagues, patients and families.
• Support the Trust in achieving national and local discharge, flow and performance targets.
• Ensure safeguarding concerns are identified, escalated, and managed in accordance with Trust policies.

Job description

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Discharge Liaison Nurse to lead discharge planning within the Kent & Medway IC. You will act as a professional role model, mentor staff, develop education programmes, and support safe, timely discharges for patients with complex health and social care needs.

The role focuses on reducing delayed transfers of care, promoting partnerships across health and social care, leading the Transfer of Care Team, and ensuring adherence to Patient