Job summary
The Palliative Discharge Coordinator role is responsible for assessing and coordinating the discharges of palliative care patients within QEH, this includes the completion of the Fast Track pathway tool for Continuing Health Care in partnership with Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire NHS Continuing Health Services.
The Palliative Discharge Coordinator role will be to provide support to patients and their families that require support through the palliative discharge planning process and fast-track pathway. Working actively to support patient choices with preferred places of care and preferred places of death as part of the discharge planning process.
To organise, plan and support safe, compassionate end of life care, putting the patient and their representatives at the centre of all decisions, whilst actively working to ensure that any delays in discharging to the patients preferred place of care / death are removed.
The Palliative Discharge Coordinator role will be based within the hospital palliative care team but will work collaboratively with other teams within the organisation to ensure timely and safe discharges for those individuals entering the last stages of life.
Main duties of the job
- Provide support and information to patients and families regarding choices at the end of life.
- Provide education, training and support within the acute hospital to promote excellent end of life care.
- Ensure that data is collected to demonstrate activity and performance as required.
- To promote end of life processes within the acute hospital and being the point of contact for staff.
- To work in partnership with the Complex Discharge Planning Team.
- Develop collaborative relationships with other care providers across health and social care to ensure communication links are in place for a continuous and seamless discharge process.
About us
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.
In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures)
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details on this vacancy, please see the attached job description and personal specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details on this vacancy, please see the attached job description and personal specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or AHP
- Evidence of Post registration Educational Continuing development
- Recognised professional Teaching and Assessing Qualification or equivalent, or willingness to undertake, or in progress.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of innovation and achievements in Clinical Practice
- Can demonstrate their experience of collaborative working
- Can demonstrate the use of appropriate criteria to prioritise patient case load
- Can demonstrate experience of difficult conversations.
- Evidence of working as part of a multi-disciplinary working practices
- Experience of working in an acute setting.
- Demonstrates experience of clinical risk management
Skills
Essential
- Proven compassionate care experience.
- Demonstrates the ability to prioritise and implement and use new ways of working.
- successful change management
Aptitude
Essential
- Demonstrates a high level of clinical expertise
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and its implications for practice
- Audit experience / research skills
- Experience of Patient and Public Involvement in Service Delivery
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or AHP
- Evidence of Post registration Educational Continuing development
- Recognised professional Teaching and Assessing Qualification or equivalent, or willingness to undertake, or in progress.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of innovation and achievements in Clinical Practice
- Can demonstrate their experience of collaborative working
- Can demonstrate the use of appropriate criteria to prioritise patient case load
- Can demonstrate experience of difficult conversations.
- Evidence of working as part of a multi-disciplinary working practices
- Experience of working in an acute setting.
- Demonstrates experience of clinical risk management
Skills
Essential
- Proven compassionate care experience.
- Demonstrates the ability to prioritise and implement and use new ways of working.
- successful change management
Aptitude
Essential
- Demonstrates a high level of clinical expertise
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and its implications for practice
- Audit experience / research skills
- Experience of Patient and Public Involvement in Service Delivery
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).
