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Trosolwg o'r swydd

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals has a unique and exciting opportunity to work as part of the Discharge Team. We are keen to recruit several Discharge Flow Coordinators to work flexibly on either a full or part-time basis. This role will play a key role in supporting the Trust’s commitment to improve the quality of patients discharge planning and ensure patients do not spend time in hospital when they could be at home.

As a Discharge Flow Coordinator, you will be responsible for a case load of patients, visit wards daily to talk to patients about their discharge planning and ensure all plans and tasks are in place. You will be trained to have kind and caring conversations with patients whilst they are still in our care. With excellent listening skills you will accurately record information that our teams need to help them continuously improve discharge.

If you are committed to the NHS, are good at organising your time and like working with people from a variety of backgrounds, then this may be the job for you. 

• Interview Date Wednesday, 21 August 2024
• Full & Part Time Hours/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

As Discharge Flow Coordinator you will have daily contact with both patients, families, and staff, to ensure patients are safely discharged home from hospital on the day they are fit to do so by supporting staff to proactively plan discharge. 

You will be trained to use our new data platform OPTICA and ensure that up to date information regarding each patient’s journey through the system is available daily and ensure that any problems which may impede the speed, safety and effective discharge of a patient are identified as early as possible and advised to the individual Complex Discharge nurse specialist and/or Clinical lead as part of an agreed escalation policy. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.