Patient Flow Discharge Tracker

We welcome applications for the exciting opportunity to work as a Discharge Tracker within the Transfer of Care Hub at Wirral University Teaching Hospital. This role plays an important part in ensuring that patients have a planned timely discharge and that the patient’s pathway is effectively managed, ensuring patients have a positive experience of the hospital discharge process. The Discharge Tracker works closely with the clinicians and nursing staff to ensure that patients are proactively managed through the system to eliminate any potential delays., To be first point of call for staff with issues regarding complex discharges. Participate in board rounds and ward huddles.

To work autonomously within identified caseload, managing workload to objectives agreed from daily MDT.

To ensure referrals and notifications are issued in a timely manner.

To develop a rapport with patients and their families/carers, to encourage their interest and participation in planning for leaving hospital.

Identify issues which may affect the patients discharge home and work with the MDT and other agencies to resolve them.

To act as a central point of contact for discharge planning, acting as a resource for knowledge of the discharge planning processes, services available and how to access them.

Identify complex patients at board rounds and ensure all discharge plans actioned., You are required to apply for this role via apps.trac.jobs and this is where you will be able to track the progress of your application. This will ensure we deal with your application quickly and efficiently.

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application throughout the process.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust viewing and managing the information contained in the application.

Please note; that if you are offered a position, your personal details will automatically be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system (ESR).

The Trust reserves the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum amount of applications from which to make a shortlist. To prevent this happening please complete and submit your application without delay.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing a DBS application is met by the successful applicant/s. DBS costs are recovered via salary deduction following starting in post.

If the post you are applying for requires a DBS – Inline with Trust policy the cost of submitting and processing a DBS for successful applications would be met by the individual themselves. The amount would vary depending on the level required: Standard Disclosure £21.50+£6.50 or Enhanced Disclosure £49.50+£6.50 (please be aware the additional sum is an administration fee and may increase due to inflation). This will be deducted from your salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment.

The Trust would encourage all post holders who require a DBS for their role to registered with the DBS Update Service. You can find out more information and guidance on how to do this at https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service.

The Department of Health and Social Care has released a new publication to support overseas candidates looking to work in health and care in the UK.

The new guidance provides information on the recruitment process that candidates should expect when applying for work in the UK. Please follow the below link:

New guidance for overseas applicants | NHS Employers

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all unborn babies, children and adults and is signed up to both the Wirral Safeguarding Childrens Partnership and the Wirral Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board associated policies and procedures. All Trust staff must be familiar with, and adhere to these procedures. It is the post holders responsibility to attended the Trusts mandatory training Protecting Vulnerable People training, and to follow the relevant Trusts polices and practice guidance.