Sister/ Charge Nurse in Manchester inManchester PUBLISHED FRI 17 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

The purpose of the job is to work as a senior member of the Discharge team to lead and facilitate complex discharges. A large aspect of this role requires Extensive work with the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) to facilitate complex patient focused discharges in a timely manner. This involves assisting in the process of assessing and making appropriate and timely discharge plans for patients ensuring that all relevant information and assessments are up to date, lesion with multiple external agencies, Hospices and UK wide Integrated care Boards for Fast Track assessments.

This is a clinical based position that plays a vital role within the planning for safe effective patient focused discharges. You will work across multiple areas to offer shared support with the discharge process and link in daily with the full discharge team, support on board/ward rounds and offer support with clinical tasks and referrals as needed.

• Effectively communicate information to patients, relatives, carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Encourage the patient’s family and friends to be actively involved in the discharge process.
• To liaise with other providers in ensuring that discharge plans for patients are proactively managed and supported throughout the ongoing discharge planning process.
• To be a point of contact on the ward providing advice and support around patient discharges, liaising with clinical teams as required.
• To record up to date patient information onto relevant systems.
• Work with the nursing team to ensure discharges are prioritised on a day-to-day basis and escalate any delays or concerns to the nurse in charge, ward manager or matron.
• Make patient transport bookings as required for patients being discharged to minimise delays.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and daily huddles and actively contribute to the planning of patient discharges.
• Assessment and completion of NHS Continuing Health care fast track assessments
  
  

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gaynor Lynch Job title: Discharge Lead Nurse Email address: Telephone number: