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Responsive Coordinator
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
179-7357951-I
Employer
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
Town
Bury St Edmunds
Salary
£27,485 - £37,796 Pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/09/2025 23:59
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B5 Responsive Coordinator - Development Post

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

Responsive Co-ordinator – Band 4-5 developmental post – Full time
 
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a responsive coordinator at the West Suffolk Hospital.  The post holder will work as part of an integrated team supporting the Discharge to Assess principles in collaboration with West Suffolk Foundation Trust, Integrated Neighbourhood Team and Suffolk County Council.
 
The successful post holder will provide the coordination of care services utilising an integrated approach that will enable a patient to be discharged smoothly from hospital into the community.
 
You will be responsible for organising the daily coordination and early identification of patients who will benefit from discharge under the Discharge to Assess principles working closely with Home First, acute and community multidisciplinary teams, social services and voluntary sector organisations.
 
You will need to undertake daily caseload management duties and provide person centred assessments as part of this role. You will need to be a well organised person with excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a team. This post covers weekend working as it is a 7 day service and you will need to have the ability to travel to all rural destinations.
 
You will have the benefits of being employed by the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust alongside working in a friendly and forward-thinking service. 

Main duties of the job

The key aspects of this role are 
 
1. Daily, review and coordinate the early identification of patients who will benefit from discharge under the Discharge to Assess principles, coordinating patients to go home and avoid admission hospital.
 
2. Be confident liaising with patients and their preferred contacts the patients meet the criteria for the responsive services and is safe to go home. This will involve using own clinical reasoning or joint decision making with system partners.
 
3. Undertake the daily management of the Support to Go Home team managing the daily caseload of the reablement support workers, and ensuring they have the right skills to provide a high-quality service, resolving problems escalated by the team, patients and their preferred contacts.
 
4. Establish good communication with all community assessment beds ensuring knowledge of bed capacity available at all times and trusted referrals in a timely manner.
 
If you have the necessary skills, experience, and qualities to help us put our patients first and develop others then please contact Jenny McCaughan Responsive Team Lead 01284 712934 

Working for our organisation

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

 

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see JD for further information

Key Working Relationships:

Specialist Discharge Planning Team, Ward Managers, Medical Consultants, Allied Healthcare Professionals and their respective teams, Support To Go Home, Early Intervention team, Home First, Adult Community Services, Community Health Teams and the Information Team, patients and carers, voluntary services.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GCSE grade A – C in Maths and English
  • Previous experience in a health care environment
Desirable criteria
  • Foundation degree in health related subject
  • Care certificate

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a reablement role in an acute healthcare setting
  • Experience of managing a delegated workload
  • Experience of implementing programmes/interventions as prescribed by qualified practitioner
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working with older people and those with dementia
  • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment
  • Experience of working in a reablement environment
  • Experience of electronic record keeping
  • Knowledge of clinical conditions relating to ageing, such as falls, frailty, stroke, dementia

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Able to organise and prioritise a designated workload
  • Able to work without direct supervision, within an agreed scope of practice
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills combined with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Able to assess and manage risk within the scope of the role
  • Able to react appropriately to change and to work under pressure

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to delivering consistently high standards of care
  • Confidence to work and challenge within a multidisciplinary team
  • Flexible approach
  • Commitment to continuing personal and professional development

Other requirements

Essential criteria
  • You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.
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Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jenny McCaughan
Job title
Team Lead - Responsive Service
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01284 712934

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