Lead Nurse DischargeNHS
Job summary
The Lead Nurse will provide visible clinical and professional leadership of the integrated discharge team, the Lead Nurse post is a senior leadership role focused on patient flow, complex discharges, and delayed discharge reduction.The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing the Hillingdon Hospital Integrated Discharge Team, delivering a robust integrated discharge model that ensures effective, person-centred and integrated pathways of care out of hospital are embedded through interdisciplinary ways of working and clear, well managed processes and protocols.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Job description
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
About us
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.
The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitalsprovide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.