Patient Discharge Specialist Nurse-TOC HUB

Job summary

We are looking to recruit highly motivated individuals to join our Transfer of Care Hub as Patient Discharge Specialist Nurses. This runs as a 7 day service to ensure timely discharge across the trust, supporting wards and liaising with external partners to provide the best possible experience for our patients.

Candidates should have a good knowledge of discharge processes, the Discharge to Assess model and be good team workers. The role also comprises elements of teaching and complex case management to support the wards.

Proposed Interview-W/C 8th January 2024

Main duties of the job

The post holder will exercise high levels of judgement, discretion and decision making within the complex discharge process for a wide variety of patients and their needs.

As an experienced autonomous practitioner, they will provide expert advice on complex discharge planning to staff members and partnership agencies, patients and their relatives and carers.

To ensure that effective links are maintained with other statutory and voluntary organisations involved in the discharge planning process. To have specialist assessment skills and be able to use their comprehensive knowledge to identify the most appropriate discharge pathway for patients in the acute setting.

To have excellent knowledge of discharge pathways and be able to work as part of the MDT to support patients with complex discharge needs, whilst ensuring that each patient is provided with the appropriate level of care and support needed to meet their individual needs on discharge.

To participate in daily operational and management activities, including leading daily discharge hub calls with system partners.

The post holder will be the case manager for complex patients with primarily nursing needs. Provide professional support to ward discharge co-ordinators, discharge support workers and patient discharge facilitators.

The post holder will support and participate in wider quality improvement work, initially focusing on analysis of Discharge Hub data detailing our Trust barriers to discharge.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.