Liaison​/Rapid Response Sister​/Charge Nurse

Overview

This is an opportunity for a shared post between two teams – The Integrated Discharge Team based at Luton & Dunstable Hospital and our community based Rapid Response Team. This is an exciting role for a dynamic nurse who enjoys autonomous practice, complex clinical decision‑making, multidisciplinary working, and leading others to deliver outstanding patient‑centred care as well as having knowledge of discharge planning.

These teams play a vital role in preventing hospital admissions or facilitating early and complex discharges. This role includes shift work and weekend working.

• Service development by developing new ways of working (e.g. clinical triage, patient assessment, discharge planning)
• Strengthen collaborative working, both across the teams and with system partners (e.g. GPs, social care and voluntary organisations)
• Contribute to the delivery of safe, effective and timely discharges for patients returning to the community from hospital
• Assess patients, work collaboratively with families, carers and the multidisciplinary team to ensure a comprehensive understanding of available community services when arranging health‑funded packages of care
• Receive, assess and manage same‑day referrals from Primary Care through the GP Liaison Service, using clinical judgement and decision‑making to support admission avoidance and ensure patients are directed to the most appropriate care pathway
• Ensure the provision of community nursing care that responds to urgent crisis response requirements in the community by assessing, prioritising, allocating, visiting and treating patients using up‑to‑date clinical skills and knowledge, and working with the integrated community nursing teams and wider multidisciplinary / integrated teams to provide high‑quality nursing care
• Work collaboratively with acute hospital, ambulance service and other providers to ensure care at home that avoids inappropriate hospital admission
• Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate timely hospital discharge

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high‑quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives. We are a leading‑edge specialist community provider, and for the seventh year running we have been rated highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high‑quality care delivery, please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey.