Discharge Coordinator Specialist inHarrogate inHarrogate PUBLISHED SUN 6 APR 2025

Are you passionate about revolutionizing healthcare delivery and making a real difference in people's lives? Do you thrive in a dynamic and forward-thinking environment? If so, then we want YOU to be a part of our extraordinary team in Intermediate Care.

Intermediate Care is not just another healthcare service – we are committed to reshaping the landscape of patient care. Our innovative approach promotes a ‘Home First’ philosophy, where patients receive the highest quality care and rehabilitation in the comfort of their own homes and communities.

Position Summary

As a Complex Discharge Specialist Nurse, you will take a lead role in ensuring safe, timely, and efficient discharge for patients who require complex assessments for on-going care in their own homes and care settings. Your focus will be on facilitating the discharge process to community services while aiming for discharge before 12 noon. Working autonomously, you will ensure patients are discharged at the earliest opportunity, promoting the use of family transport to reduce dependency on services.

You will be responsible for demonstrating expert knowledge of discharge options and services, providing support to patients, their families, and care workers in managing discharge plans, and addressing any concerns that may arise. Your leadership and collaboration at multidisciplinary team meetings will ensure patient needs and preferences are addressed, helping to achieve a timely discharge.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify Complex Discharges: Lead the identification of patients requiring complex discharge planning and facilitate assessments for community services, ensuring safe discharge from acute care.
• Autonomous Discharge Planning: Ensure patients are discharged as early as possible, utilizing family transport where appropriate to reduce reliance on services.
• Expert Knowledge & Support: Provide expert knowledge on available services, supporting patients, families, carers, and care workers in the discharge process, addressing any concerns and managing expectations.
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Lead and contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings, advocating for patients' wishes and promoting advanced care planning to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Support Ward Staff: Assist ward staff in developing their discharge planning skills and ensure documentation is in line with trust policy.
• Involvement in Projects: Engage with internal projects focused on improving, updating, and revolutionizing how we approach patient discharge, contributing your insights and expertise to enhance practices.
• Creative Problem Solving: Use your initiative to develop tailored, creative solutions to complex social challenges, ensuring patients are supported in their unique circumstances
  
  

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you’re looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients’ lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

We Offer Colleagues

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing – we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.
  
  

Please Note

• Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
• Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
• Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
• All job offers are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Karla Butterworth Job title: Intermediate Care Clinical Team Lead Email address: Telephone number:

For more information about the vacancy contact -

Karla Butterworth

Intermediate Care Clinical Team