Flow and Discharge Co-ordinator/ Housing Specialist

The post holder will work as an experienced clinician as a key member of the Flow and Discharge Team based within the acute inpatient services (working age adult and Older peoples). The post holder will work collaboratively with the Patient Flow Hub, Senior Flow and Discharge Coordinators (SF&DC), inpatient wards (internal and external), crisis teams, relevant community teams / services, service users and their families, working in a targeted way to achieve the best pathway for inpatients on discharge with early identification of factors that would potentially delay timely discharge and impact on provision of appropriate aftercare. The post holder will focus mainly on patients facing homelessness as barrier to discharge across all three boroughs. To sit organisationally within the Patient Flow services and be present on the inpatient wards working with an identified caseload to enable effective discharge planning for patients facing homelessness. The postholder would be required to travel to other Trust sites to support the discharge planning process for patients where required.

• To provide supervision as required for team members in accordance with Trust supervision standards
• Identify and minimise delays to discharge and support patients discharge to the community or back to Trust inpatient units.
• Provide regular, informative, and accurate bed management information
• Improve satisfaction of service users and carers in discharge planning arrangements and transfer arrangements from Oxleas wards and out of borough/ private placements.
• To work closely with the inpatient wards and Home Treatment Teams and be a key contact for discharge coordination.
• Attend and participate in the Clinically Ready for Discharge (CRFD) and Length of stay (LOS) meetings.
• Attend and participate in ward rounds, including Section 117 meetings

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joanne George Job title: Patient Flow and Discharge Team Clinical Manager Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: View phone number on uk.workus.org

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