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Ensuring hospital bed occupancy remains at safe levels for patients is a critical priority for NHS Lanarkshire and both Lanarkshire Integration Joint Boards. This underpins the wider Scottish Government, Health Board and Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) focus on improving flow through health and care services, which is essential to delivering timely, effective care and maintaining system resilience.

The Scottish Government has set a national target for NHS Boards to achieve a 5% improvement in unscheduled care performance by March 2026 – and so:

• Reduce long waits in Emergency Departments (ED).
• Improve patient flow through hospitals and into community care.
• Reduce delayed discharges and ensuring timely access to downstream beds.

University Hospital Hairmyres (UHH) is significantly challenged in relation to its Unscheduled Care performance; specifically, in relation to long waits in the Emergency Department, access to downstream beds, and effective discharge planning. The reasons for this are varied and complex, and an internal improvement team has been created, working in collaboration with the UHH site leadership team to drive sustained improvement for safe, effective patient care and improved staff experience.

An opportunity has been created to join the Site Safety Improvement Programme based at University Hospital Hairmyres (UHH) in a Senior Leadership role supporting the development of an Integrated Discharge Hub. In the first instance the focus will be in working collaboratively with the South Lanarkshire University Health and Social Care Partnership (SL HSCP) and UHH teams to establish a sustainable model. The ambition is to create a pan-Lanarkshire Integrated Discharge Hub.

The post holder will work across organisational boundaries between the SL HSCP and UHH to provide senior leadership for the development of an effective and sustainable patient discharge model. In the initial stages this senior role will focus on ensuring there are clear roles and responsibilities, robust pathways and processes, enabling tests of change and learning and embedding practice. A key part of this improvement work will be the implementation of robust PDD setting and ensuring effective Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings. The senior leader will set a clear direction and ambition for the Integrated Discharge Hub, learning from other national models.

1. Provide Senior Leadership working collaboratively with SL HSCP and UHH teams.
2. Set improvement trajectories ensuring measurements are in place relating to a set of agreed KPIs.
3. Set out a clear plan with associated milestones for the improvement activity required to support the implementation of a site based Integrated Discharge Hub.
4. Evaluate and capture learning from all improvement cycles in order to inform future phases and a Pan-Lanarkshire Integrated Discharge Hub model.

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

• Educated to Masters Level or equivalent with extensive experience at senior management level within health services.
• Formal management qualification
• A detailed understanding of the national and international health and social care agenda
• Ability to demonstrate integrity and effective leadership and management skills, together with a proven track record of achievement in strategy and policy development and implementation.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective, positive relationships with key partners and partner organisations, providing a positive role model for partnership working within both North and South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnerships.
• A proven track record in the provision of strategic, creative and innovative solutions in meeting organisational requirements, motivating staff and providing seamless patient/client care in new integrated arrangements in conjunction with NHSL; local authorities, public and staff.
• Ability to provide effective credible communication and an ability to operate effectively under pressure

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

• Passion for integration across health and social care pathways
• Demonstrable understanding of Discharge without Delay principles

Fixed Term or Secondment for 6-months.

Full time

37-hours

Please note this is a fixed term post for 6-months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

This role will be based in University Hospital Hairmyres within the Integrated Discharge Hub.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

If you're looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Lynne Huckerby, Deputy Director of Acute Services on lynne.huckerby@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk or Ian Beattie, Head of Health and Social Care on ian.beattie@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Lewis Melvin, HR Recruitment Systems and Project Lead on lewis.melvin@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire's benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

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NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent—regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

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Right to Work within the UK

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

Please note that all Band 1 and Band 2 posts are not eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route.