Integrated Discharge Coordinator

Job summary

The Discharge Coordinator plays a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, timely, and effective discharge of patients from hospital. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will coordinate complex discharge plans, facilitate communication between health and social care professionals, and work closely with patients, families, carers, and external agencies to support seamless transitions of care.

The post holder will proactively identify and address barriers to discharge, ensuring that patients receive the appropriate support and services required upon leaving hospital. They will provide specialist advice on discharge processes, contribute to improving patient flow, and support the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care.

The Discharge Coordinator will work collaboratively across acute, community, and social care settings to ensure compliance with national guidance, local policies, and best practice standards, promoting positive patient outcomes and reducing unnecessary delays in discharge.

We are particularly interested in candidates who have experience of undertaking NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Nurse Assessments.

Main duties of the job

To coordinate complex patient discharges by liaising across the Health and Social Care economy and working collaboratively with Primary Care and third sector services, This is an integral role provided at both the acute sector and the community setting. The purpose is to assist the Trust to maintain capacity and flow throughout the whole system and to promote safe and timely discharges, with the intent to reduce the detrimental outcomes associated for patients who have a prolonged length of stay.

The Trust have a number of discharge initiatives that aim to bring care closer to home, therefore the post holder must be confident and proactive in sensitively challenging conventional thinking.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered first level nurse or AHP or social care
• Diploma/degree level relevant qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional development in the last year

Desirable

• Mentoring and assessing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience in an acute hospital setting or equivalent or community setting
• Experience in effectively contributing and sustaining change
• Experience with working with electronic systems

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of the key legislation, best practice and health/social care policy and guidelines relating to own professional practice
• Able to manage, prioritise and organise own workload effectively
• Demonstrates up to date knowledge in the field of patient discharge
• Is innovative, positive and has ability to apply critical and lateral thinking
• Able to plan and achieve targets and to meet deadlines
• Act as a positive role model/expert in complex patient discharge
• Demonstrates ability to sensitively challenge conventional thinking
• Demonstrates experience of multidisciplinary and collaborative working
• Ability to facilitate change effectively and motivate others

Desirable

• Demonstrates IT skills
• Able to apply research and best practice operationally
• Can demonstrate characteristics of effective credible leadership

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Able to achieve individual and team objectives
• Demonstrates enthusiasm for integrated working
• Able to work both autonomously and within a team
• Demonstrates commitment and selfmotivation

Desirable

• Committed to and demonstrates ability to teach successfully

Other

Essential

• Demonstrates understanding of relevant national strategy /policy and how this relates to the service
• Commitment to maintain own fitness for profile of practice
• Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace
• Good health
• Reliable/punctual/flexible
• Car driver with transport
• Will to work across all hospital and third sector providers
• Willing to travel when required locally/nationally

Desirable

• Maintain an organised clean working environment

Closing Date: 4 August 2026