Discharge and Transfer Lead

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated Nurse or Therapist with an understanding of the benefits of early discharge and rehabilitation within a familiar home environment. Someone who can work within a Multi-disciplinary Team, using their initiative to make decisions around complex issues. The successful candidate will promote and implement the Discharge to Assess principles and pathways. They will identify, assess and co-ordinate services to support the safe discharge and transfer of patients with complex needs, liaising with the Multi-disciplinary Team and partner agencies across acute and community settings. You will be either a qualified Registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist.

Main duties of the job:

• To ensure patient discharge care needs are assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated using research evidence as appropriate.
• To provide leadership to facilitate excellent nursing or therapy care in order to promote rehabilitation, patient independence and therefore earlier discharge from hospital.
• To ensure all nursing or therapy procedures are carried out in accordance with Royal Derby Hospital policies taking appropriate action in emergency situations.
• In conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, be responsible for setting, monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of care particularly for patients with multiple needs who require complex packages.
• Maintaining personal contact with patients, relatives and carers being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
• Ensuring that accurate and timely records of discharge planning assessments, planning, interventions and contacts are maintained.

This position is offered as a secondment. Accordingly, you are required to consult with your manager and obtain approval prior to submitting your application.

Working for our organisation:

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together. Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB – this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account. Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert.

Person specification:

• Planning and Organising Skills
• Management and prioritise workload
• Community experience/knowledge
• Interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrable Band 5 experience.
• Professional qualifications.

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply early as possible to avoid disappointment.

At UHDB, we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust. For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/reduced hours/compressed hours/flexible start and finish times/fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/term time hours/hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home. Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

Most of our posts are subject to a DBS check, however having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from obtaining a position. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

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