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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Discharge Co-ordinator

The closing date is 21 October 2025

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Job summary

Are you ready for a challenge? Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking x 2 Discharge Coordinators to join our team!

The Discharge Coordinator will support the Discharge to Assess process, facilitating safe discharges from the hospital and aiding flow and capacity within the Trust.

This role requires someone who has excellent communication skills and is self motivated to be able to adapt quickly to changes with a patient and calm approach.

The role involves working across all clinical areas and will require duty at other Sherwood Forest sites (Mansfield Community Hospital and Newark Hospital) as needed.

Candidates should possess a clear understanding of the Discharge to Assess process, sound knowledge of discharge pathways, and awareness of social care and health processes.Full training will be provided for this role.

This position entails a seven-day service, including bank holidays. Current shift patterns will be a variety of 8am-4pm and 8.30am-4.30pm.

Apply now to join our team and make a difference in health care!

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details

Date posted

14 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CEN-7391777

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton In Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Desirable

  • Experience in managing patient flow
  • Community resource experience
  • NHS social care or similar background
  • Previous experience of discharge processes
  • Computer skills
  • Knowledge of Trust policies
  • Knowledge of Discharge to Assess process

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ level 2 or equivalent
  • Good standard of general education including GCSE English or equivalent
  • Audit Knowledge

Desirable

  • ECDL
  • NVQ in Promoting independence or equivalent in Care
  • NVQ in Health and Social Care

Further Training

Essential

  • Willing to undertake further training for personal development and for knowledge and skills development.
  • Mandatory training

Desirable

  • Understanding of the Delayed transfer of care act
  • Understanding of the National framework for NHS continuing Health Care
  • Knowledge of Medway

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to work as a member of a team, to cope with stress, to be self-motivated and to be structured regarding work schedules
  • Skills and confidence to represent to Trust on a multi agency basis
  • Good Communicator and adaptable and able to cope with change
  • Professional Manner, adaptability, flexibility and ability to multi task
  • Desire to achieve and sustain high standards
  • Patient and calm approach

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Able to work flexibly within the hours of the department to meet the demands of the service
Person Specification

Knowledge

Desirable

  • Experience in managing patient flow
  • Community resource experience
  • NHS social care or similar background
  • Previous experience of discharge processes
  • Computer skills
  • Knowledge of Trust policies
  • Knowledge of Discharge to Assess process

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ level 2 or equivalent
  • Good standard of general education including GCSE English or equivalent
  • Audit Knowledge

Desirable

  • ECDL
  • NVQ in Promoting independence or equivalent in Care
  • NVQ in Health and Social Care

Further Training

Essential

  • Willing to undertake further training for personal development and for knowledge and skills development.
  • Mandatory training

Desirable

  • Understanding of the Delayed transfer of care act
  • Understanding of the National framework for NHS continuing Health Care
  • Knowledge of Medway

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to work as a member of a team, to cope with stress, to be self-motivated and to be structured regarding work schedules
  • Skills and confidence to represent to Trust on a multi agency basis
  • Good Communicator and adaptable and able to cope with change
  • Professional Manner, adaptability, flexibility and ability to multi task
  • Desire to achieve and sustain high standards
  • Patient and calm approach

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Able to work flexibly within the hours of the department to meet the demands of the service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton In Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton In Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Delegated Lead Case Manager

Natalie Lord

natalie.lord1@nhs.net

07423814255

Details

Date posted

14 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CEN-7391777

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton In Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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