Job summary
We are delighted to offer an outstanding opportunity for a highly skilled and experienced practitioner to join our Integrated Discharge Service as a clinical leader in complex discharges. In this pivotal role, you will draw on your deep clinical expertise to assess, manage, and coordinate the discharge of patients with complex needs, ensuring seamless transitions of care and positive outcomes for service users and their families. Based primarily at the Charing Cross hospital site, you will also play a crucial role in supporting and providing coverage across our other sites as required, demonstrating flexibility and a commitment to integrated care delivery across the organisation.
As the clinical lead for the discharge team, you will be working closely with the Discharge Hub Lead at Charing Crossing to oversee multiple aspects of the discharge team, working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues to facilitate timely and safe discharges. This is a high-profile position that will place you at the forefront of service development and integrated care initiatives, allowing you to contribute meaningfully to the continuous improvement of our discharge services.
This role is ideally suited for individuals who are passionate about integrated care, service transformation, and partnership working. You will gain invaluable experience in strategic planning, leadership, and stakeholder engagement--skills that are essential for those aspiring to senior health and social care roles.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clinical leadership and responsibility for a caseload of patients.
- Provide clinical supervision to discharge team leads.
- Provide operational management of the discharge team and discharge lounge ensuring robust service delivery.
- Deputise for the discharge leadership team.
- Lead on operational relationships with community partners and local authority adult social care teams.
- Use operational and performance data to feed into oversight calls and implement the North West London escalation framework.
- Foster strong relationships with the general and acute adult inpatient multi-disciplinary teams in order to promote acute flow and the reduction of discharge delays.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person Specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential
- BSc/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Professional Registration in an appropriate health care discipline (e.g., RN or AHP)
- Relevant specialist training, experience, and short courses to master's level equivalent.
- Teaching and assessing or mentorship course
- Completion of an appropriate management / leadership programme
Desirable
- Quality Improvement or Project Management course
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of complex discharge case management and problem solving
- Demonstrable experience of managing a range of professional staff and working in multidisciplinary teams
- Substantial experience in working across organisational and sector boundaries
- Teaching experience (informal or formal)
- Recruitment, retention and performance management experience
- Experience of working in partnership with voluntary / statutory agencies
- Experience of implementing service level change
Desirable
- Experience of leading audits and implementing action plans
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential
- Excellent clinical skills, and extensive knowledge relevant to the client group
- Able to interpret and communicate complex information to a range of audiences
- Able to gather and analyze complex data.
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent negotiation and persuasive skills enabling effective arbitration and conflict resolution
- Able to form lasting partnerships with key stakeholders and promote close working relationships.
- Excellent written and presentation skills
Person Specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential
- BSc/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Professional Registration in an appropriate health care discipline (e.g., RN or AHP)
- Relevant specialist training, experience, and short courses to master's level equivalent.
- Teaching and assessing or mentorship course
- Completion of an appropriate management / leadership programme
Desirable
- Quality Improvement or Project Management course
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of complex discharge case management and problem solving
- Demonstrable experience of managing a range of professional staff and working in multidisciplinary teams
- Substantial experience in working across organisational and sector boundaries
- Teaching experience (informal or formal)
- Recruitment, retention and performance management experience
- Experience of working in partnership with voluntary / statutory agencies
- Experience of implementing service level change
Desirable
- Experience of leading audits and implementing action plans
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential
- Excellent clinical skills, and extensive knowledge relevant to the client group
- Able to interpret and communicate complex information to a range of audiences
- Able to gather and analyze complex data.
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent negotiation and persuasive skills enabling effective arbitration and conflict resolution
- Able to form lasting partnerships with key stakeholders and promote close working relationships.
- Excellent written and presentation skills
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
