Band 4- Care Pathway Facilitator | Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust

Posting date:	09 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£31,081 - £33,665 per annum inclusive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 June 2025
Location:	Ilford, IG3 8YB
Company:	Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7200640/162-7035-TA

Summary

We have an exciting role in the Geriatric Division for a Discharge Pathway Coordinator on Beech Frailty Unit. Care of the Elderly is currently going through a process of change to ensure we meet the on-going needs of our elderly patients and to provide an excellent standard of care every time and every day. This is an ideal opportunity for you to bring your experiences and visions to help us to deliver these changes

We are looking for an enthusiastic care pathway facilitator with post experience working in elderly care and has a passion for delivering safe discharge and reduce the length of stay of our elderly patient, putting the patients at the centre of our PRIDE values and promoting good patient experience.

You will work in a busy acute ED setting for frail and elderly patients with frailty score of 6 and above and will ensure that all complex discharges are dealt with in a timely manner within the agreed timescales and patients are discharged safely.



You will be required to establish and maintain effective working relationships with both Trust staff and relevant external agencies and advice the senior sisters and charge nurses /matrons/Lead Nurse, PALS and Family Liaison on areas of risk to the organisation and take necessary actions as appropriate to ensure that patients, relatives and carers who raise complaints regarding poor discharge/discharge alert are dealt within a sensitive, effective and confident manner in line with Trust discharge Policy.

You is required to have a proven experience working in an acute hospital clinical setting and must demonstrate good and sound knowledge in computer skills including Microsoft word and excel and Care Flow.

The individual will have excellent writing skills, communications skills and good telephone manners and has an experience dealing with the public



· To attend the daily board rounds meetings and compile a list of all new discharges and completing D2A, Fastrack paperwork etc.

· To Coordinate transfers to the exterior centre

· To attend the weekly discharge planning meeting as instructed by the medical team

· Liaise with the admission/bed manager for allocation of beds for inpatients, patients and Queens transfers from A&E or the observation ward

· Attend the clinical ward rounds to be able to take instructions from the medical team and senior nurses to co-ordinate and facilitate discharge planning





We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer inspecial measures; we’ve openedtwo new theatresat our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been namedthe top CEOby the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen’sand get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from ourWomen’s Health Hubin Ilford; anAgeing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) atBarking Community Hospitaland atSt George’s Health and Wellbeing Hubin Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many canwork flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accreditedapprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be aLondon Living Wageemployer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Tosin Aragbaiye, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5934. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.




This advert closes on Sunday 18 May 2025

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