Job summary
- Main area
- Discharge Nurse
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 11 months (7 day working pattern - 8-8 shift working)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6185911HN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Discharge Nurse
Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an 11 month fixed term/ secondment ending 31/03/2025 Band 6 Discharge Nurse to join the Care Point Team at North Tyneside General Hospital. The successful applicant will work in an integrated multi-disciplinary team that proactively facilitates a safe, effective and timely patient discharge and aims to prevent re-admission. The successful candidate will focus on the trusted assessor/ intermediate care element to support patient flow to care homes in North Tyneside.
The team is located across sites and includes colleagues from nursing, social care, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy.
The successful applicant will need to be flexible in their approach and be willing to work across sites as and when required.
The successful applicant must have excellent communication skills and be able to work on their own initiative and as part of a team. Experience in working with adults and knowledge of the Care Act and safeguarding procedures would be an advantage.
Applicants must be Registered Nurse and be able to demonstrate ongoing professional development. Applicants must be able to meet the transport requirements of the post.
Successful applicants will have access to regular management and reflective supervision, annual appraisals and professional development opportunities.
The post holder may be required to cover the service hours of 7 days a week between the hours of 8am-8pm.
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will work with clinicians to ensure that patients receive appropriate care, they will focus on the trusted assessor/ intermediate care element to support patient flow to care homes in North Tyneside. The team would deal with all issues relating to community nursing, social care and therapy.
- Provide full hospital support in terms of discharge, including attendance and participation at identified ward MDTs, support for complex discharges, advice and guidance re referrals to community services & initiatives.
- He/she will work across organisational boundaries in such a way as to enable colleagues to collaborate in providing care and service to patients. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care within an environment of informed consent.
- To work within the community setting providing holistic nursing care as well as advice and support for patients, carers and family as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As part of a single, multidisciplinary team, the post holder will provide efficient and effective facilitation of the patient journey through hospital, to achieve safe and timely discharge, seamless transitions and help to avoid unnecessary admission and readmission to hospital.
The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team working in the community and hospital setting in order to make the patient discharge pathway as seamless as possible and carry out urgent assessment within a patient’s home.
The post holder will be required to provide high quality nursing care to patients with a range of complex care and rehabilitation needs.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse, UK
- B.Sc. (Hons) degree health related studies or equivalent relevant qualifications or equivalent relevant experience
- Post registration mentorship, teaching qualification
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience working in the community
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Appropriate post registration experience
- Previous experience of change management
- Conversant with discharge planning processes
- Up-to-date on current or associated legislation in relation to discharge planning
- Conversant with Community Care Act 2003 (Delayed Transfers of Care Act)
- Conversant with the revised framework on NHS Continuing Healthcare/NHS Funded Nursing Care
- Knowledge of current local and national agendas/policies
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a rehabilitation setting
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joy Hart
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 337 1000
- Additional information
Jennie Milburn
Clinical Lead for Intermediate care / NSECH
0191 6072124
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