Matron/Lead for older people and complex care
| Posting date: | 23 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,698.00 to £65,095.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58698.00 - £65095.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW3 6NP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9196-24-1036 |
Summary
The post holder will work closely with staff of all professional backgrounds across the clinical group to develop and optimise pathways for older people to ensure safe care for complex patients undergoing procedures across the Heart, Lung, Critical care clinical group from referral and pre assessment to post discharge. The post holder will lead the discharge and complex discharge teams for the clinical group. Pathways for older people and complex care The role will lead on improving pathways for older and complex patients undergoing surgery and cardiology procedures by ensuring that patients with complex care needs whether that be due to age, or other factors are appropriately identified early, assessed and referred to the appropriate teams for review. The post holder will lead on: - The development of strategies to identify complex needs early in the pathway. To ensure that the development of pathways is done in coproduction with patients. To liaise and work with all pre assessment services, in patient areas and discharge teams to develop standards and governance process for any new service. To work with the Perioperative medicine for Older People undergoing Surgery (POPS) Team to upscale the POPs service across the HLCC. To improve the identification of older people with complex needs, supporting ward staff with the clinical assessment and management of diverse needs of older patients and encouraging them to proactively liaise and refer to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) as appropriate. To lead on the development, monitoring and review of care plans for older patients with complex needs e.g., dementia, history of falls. To lead on planning, development, delivery, and evaluation of training for ward staff and other members of the team to support provision of quality client-centred services for our older patients and those with complex discharge, within HLCC and Trust wide. To be responsible for the reporting of relevant data internally within HLCC and the Trust as well as Lead for discharge and complex discharge In addition to leading on the older persons pathway transformation work the post holder will act as the lead for discharge & complex discharge for Heart Lung & Critical Care (HLCC) clinical group provide strategic planning, development and implementation of National guidance, e.g., National Service Framework for Older People, and lead on delivering related Trust strategies across the clinical group. The post holder will lead on: - Developing a structure to ensure that for, elective pathways, that discharge is discussed and planned at pre-admission so that post procedure the patients & families are ready for discharge, aware of ongoing care they may be required and are discharged with all the required information and medication in a timely way. Creating a process to ensure that, for urgent and emergency pathways there is a process to plan discharge arrangements as soon as is practical after admission. Creating a resource to identify efficient discharge planning ensuring patients & families know when patients have a proposed discharge date, plan and discharge requirements for ongoing care. Planning specific service improvement such as morning discharge alongside matrons and ward staff. Development projects, initiatives and liaising with a wide range of staff internally and externally, taking responsibility for outcomes, reporting and assurance. To co-produce Trust policy and deliver locally across all clinical areas within the HLCC clinical group. To take responsibility for the co-ordination of complex discharges, to support patient flow, across all sites within HLCC; this will be achieved by leading and managing the services for complex discharge including NHS continuing health care co-ordination, working with colleagues in complex discharge, occupational therapy, welfare rights, ward discharge nurses and the lead for adult safeguarding as well as linking with external partners. To lead regular audit of current practice and development and implementation of recommendations. It will include collation of service data for the clinical group and development of dashboard data. To lead the HLCC discharge improvement group meeting, a group of multi professional staff from across the clinical group, to deliver quality improvement activities to improve discharge of patients.