Ward Discharge Coordinator

Shropshire Community Health Nhs Trust; Bishop's Castle; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Bishop's Castle seeks a professional to coordinate patient discharge processes within a multidisciplinary team. The role includes effective communication with patients, families, and stakeholders, emphasizing the SAFER approach to expedite patient care. Candidates should thrive in an autonomous working environment while supporting quality patient services. The organization values diversity and is committed to a positive work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with patients, families, and key stakeholders involved in patient discharge.
• Support the SAFER red to green approach for patient care.
• Work autonomously within the ward team for discharge processes.

Job description

Overview

The role involves working within the ward environment as part of the multidisciplinary team, to provide a continuous coordinated approach to the safe and timely discharge of patients with simple and complex discharge needs.

Responsibilities

• Communicate and liaise with patients, their families and carers and other key external stakeholders who play an integral role in patient discharge.
• Support the delivery of the SAFER red to green approach to expediting patient care.
• The role requires a high proportion of autonomous working with in the ward team within the sphere of the role.

About Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.