Band 8c Integrated System Transfer of Care Lead

Job summary

We are recruiting an experienced professional to lead our hospital flow and discharge arrangements across the Birmingham and Solihull (BSol) health and social care system.

This is an exciting, newly created role, allowing the successful candidate to make a real difference within our system on the back of the creation of an integrated single transfer of care (STOC) team and approach. The successful candidate will have an excellent working knowledge of hospital discharge and admission avoidance policy and best practice. Candidates will need to demonstrate excellent leadership and communication skills, have recent experience of service transformation and be able to take responsibility for the day-to-day oversight and management of the STOC team, ensuring patients receive timely, safe and co-ordinated care.

Main duties of the job

It is fundamental that the BSol Health and Care System creates safe levels of capacity and maintains sufficient flow. This ensures that patients who need inpatient hospital care are admitted and treated efficiently, and then discharged as soon as possible - preferably to their home. The Integrated Single Transfer of Care Lead will be responsible for achieving this. The post requires strong system leadership and establishment and oversight of a regular rhythm of operational challenge, control and support. This will include driving operational teams across the system to focus on the person, co-ordinating and redistributing resources to deliver safe, early discharge and improve patient outcomes. This is a senior manager position, that can make day to day decisions on behalf of all agencies in the system to facilitate discharge. The system is in the process of adopting the principles of 'Discharge to Assess' and 'Home First'.

The postholder will lead the system-level discharge coordinating STOC Hub for the BSol Health and Social Care system, on behalf of University Hospitals Birmingham FT(UHB), Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals (SWBH), Birmingham Community Healthcare FT (BCHC), Birmingham and Solihull ICB, Birmingham City Council (BCC) and Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC).

About us

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.