Job summary
- Main area
- Discharge Planning and Patient Flow
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (4 days a week including some weekends and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 279-8023059-JUN26
- Employer
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Worthing Hospital
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Discharge Co-ordinator
Band 6
About our Trust
At UHSussex we’re proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute trusts, we’re a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years.
Our hard-working, talented and dedicated people work together towards a common goal – to deliver Excellent Care Everywhere for our patients, our people and our communities. Whatever your role here at UHSussex you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex.
At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us deliver Excellent Care Everywhere. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
We value compassion, inclusion and respect as our core values. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our wellbeing programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.
As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.
As part of our commitment to access for all, please see the different ways you can access the application form: https://apps.trac.jobs/accessibility?_ts=1
We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.
Job overview
The Worthing Discharge Team are looking for a proactive person to join our dynamic team as a permanent Discharge Coordinator.
We want you to join us in providing safe and coordinated care and a high quality discharge service to all our patients on the Worthing Hospital Site.
If you are motivated and have a keen interest in discharge planning and want to take on this challenging and rewarding role, we would like to hear from you.
Training and a full induction will be given to you.
This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. Sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds, and any role-specific criteria. For example, applicants for the Senior HCA role must be able to evidence a minimum of 2 years’ experience in the same role to qualify for sponsorship.
If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.
Main duties of the job
- Act as key-worker to co-ordinate individual complex discharges
- Attendance on board rounds and MDTs to assist with identifying patients who meet the revised clinical criteria of being ‘medically optimised’ and are suitable for discharge.
- Promotion of the five elements of the safer bundle to be followed
- To assist ward staff with identifying the most appropriate patient pathway for each individual patient and allocate to a discharge pathway.
- To support ward staff to manage patients discharges who are on pathway 0.
- Communication by assisting wards to make calls regarding collecting the collateral and social history of a patient who has been admitted -to assist with a discharge plan to be put in place. Informing families and services of proposed EDD of patient.
- To support the discharge hub with information gathering and referrals and pathway discussion upon request.
Working for our organisation
At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always deliver Excellent Care Everywhere, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
Candidate Information Pack :
https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/resources/candidate-information-pack/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Manage a personal caseload of wards and coordinate complex discharges from the Acute
- Act as Trust experts in discharge planning, assisting and supporting the MDT to drive and co-ordinate discharges, ensuring effective, timely intervention from all disciplines
- Assist wards and teams with understanding and using the ‘Home First’ Model
- Support the integrated ‘Discharge Hub’ in matching patients to pathways
- Provide education in discharge planning to members of the MDT or other professional groups requiring this teaching
- Support transfers to NHS funded community venues/services
- Participate in the development of Trusted Assessment for care transfers
- Monitor performance associated with discharge, identifying gaps in service provision that may have a detrimental effect on length of stay, delayed transfers of care or patient experience
- Work with multi-agency representatives to reduce length of stay, numbers of super-stranded patients and delayed transfers of care, to achieve performance targets related to discharge
- Facilitate Trust’s compliance with current legislation relating to discharge planning
- Ensure compliance with NSF for NHS Continuing Healthcare and act as the Trust’s liaison with the CHC Team
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Person specification
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- NMC registered Nurse or Registered Allied Healthcare Professional
Desirable criteria
- Teaching & Assessing or equivalent
- Undertaken Mentorship Course or Equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- To have worked on a hospital ward consistently over a substantive period (at Band 5 or above), with responsibility for co-ordinating/arranging discharges of patients OR equivalent management responsibility in a health or social care setting
Desirable criteria
- Basic working knowledge of: a) Continuing Health Care b) Home First Model c) Safer Bundle
MDT Working
Essential criteria
- Experience of Multidisciplinary Working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Board meetings
- Experience in completing TOCH unified referral forms
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maria Swift
- Job title
- Discharge Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01903 205111
- Additional information
ext.: 84062
Please feel free to contact me for an informal chat or to arrange a visit to our team.
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