Job summary
- Main area
- Discharge services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 153-CO03415
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Multi Professional Lead for Discharge
Band 6
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
We are pleased to announce an exciting vacancy for two Band 6 Nurse/Occupational Therapist to join our University Hospitals Dorset Integrated Discharge Team.
The Integrated Discharge team across UHD is an extremely dynamic, innovative and supportive multidisciplinary team who are passionate in enacting a discharge to assess (D2A) model for discharge out of hospital, as outlined in the Our Dorset Discharge Model. The team supports the hospital multi-disciplinary team working across the clinical areas. Working with external partners, community and voluntary services to plan discharge in line with the patient’s expressed wishes, their next of kin/ representatives to achieve a safe and timely discharge from hospital.
The post holder will be expected to work weekends and Bank holidays as the service operates 7 day / week. There are two positions, one post holder to be based at Poole Hospital and one post holder to be based at Bournemouth hospital.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth or Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
- To work with the Integrated discharge team as a professional discharge lead to achieve effective discharge practice in the management of complex cases
- Works as a Discharge expert as an autonomous practitioner supporting the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate safe, effective patient discharge as an integral part of the ward team/discharge co-ordination team on the ward
- To support a culture of “Home First” and Discharge to Assess principles for discharge in line with agreed Dorset Home First strategy are in practiced to avoid significant delays or unrealistic expectations of patients/ relatives.
- To provide the timely discharge of hospital patients who do not meet the clinical criteria to reside,
- To be a skilled and knowledgeable advisor for patients, family/carers and staff, articulating an understanding of the National Hospital Discharge Service Requirement Policy, Discharge Planning: Standard Operational Procedures (SOP) and discharge planning processes for simple and complex discharges.
- To provide expert discharge advice and support the clinical areas in effective recording of patient discharge information on Health of the Ward/ena systems that delivers accurate real time patient tracking/ discharge information and data
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The integrated discharge team has an overarching aim to reduce a patient’s length of stay thereby reducing the risks associated with elongated stays in acute hospital beds. The Our Dorset discharge to assess ( D2A) model is committed to enabling and supporting patients to be assessed away from the acute hospital setting. Dorset is recognised as an integrated care system. Transformation work continues post pandemic across the Dorset health, social and voluntary organisations to continually improve discharge policy and procedure that support hospital discharge recognising the complexities in achieving this aspiration requires professionals with expert skills and knowledge of working with partners, knowledge of legal frameworks such as safeguarding, Deprivation of Liberty, Mental Capacity Act and excellent interpersonal skills.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered Nurse / or equivalent professional body Experience of managing/ supporting the complexities of care delivery within an acute hospital setting
- Experience of working with hospital discharge services
Desirable criteria
- 1st level degree or working towards Leadership and management qualification
- Teaching and Assessing in Clinical environment Course or recognised teaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post-registration experience
- Experience in undertaking audit
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in hospital discharge services
- Teaching Practice and developing staff
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to motivate and lead a people
- Change management skills
- Planning and prioritisation skills
- Computer literacy particularly working with excel spread sheets and access databases
- Awareness of the importance and impact of priorities and autonomy in practice
- Ability to work in highly pressurised situations
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the National Hospital Discharge Service
- Knowledge of Older Persons Medicine / Frailty and importance of a comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
- Knowledge of MCA and Human Rights Act and Advocacy / Safeguarding
- Understanding of current NHS trends and policies, including clinical governance, NHS improvement, CQC, ICS etc
- Awareness of the importance and impact of priorities and autonomy in practice
- Multidisciplinary approach to care
- Ability to keep up to date with evidence based practice and effectively communicate this to the team
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of knowledge and managing staff through human policies and procedures
- Awareness of principles of budgetary management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katie Reed
- Job title
- Senior clinical lead for discharge - RBH
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03000195931
- Additional information
Chris Bowden
Poole Hospital / Senior Clinical Lead for Discharge
UHD NHS Foundation Trust
Tel: 0300-019 - 9398
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