Transfer of Care Hub System Discharge Lead

Are you an experienced health or social care leader with a passion for improving patient outcomes and transforming services?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional leader to join the Sussex Health and Care System as a Transfer of Care Hub System Discharge Lead. This influential system-wide role will provide leadership and strategic oversight of discharge planning and patient flow across organisational boundaries, ensuring people receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

Working across acute, community, mental health, social care, voluntary sector and commissioning partners, you will lead the development of an integrated, high-performing Transfer of Care Hub that delivers safe, effective and timely discharges while reducing delays and improving patient experience.

This is a highly visible and influential leadership position, accountable to multiple system partners and responsible for driving a whole-system approach to discharge planning and transfer of care.

• Lead and develop an integrated Transfer of Care Hub across health and social care partners.
• Provide strategic leadership to improve discharge pathways, patient flow and hospital capacity.
• Drive delivery of national discharge priorities and local performance objectives.
• Build strong partnerships across NHS organisations, local authorities, voluntary sector organisations and care providers.
• Identify and remove barriers to timely discharge across organisational boundaries.
• Lead system-wide improvement and transformation programmes to optimise patient outcomes.
• Use performance, operational and intelligence data to inform decision-making and improve flow.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex discharge issues and system challenges.
• Champion a "Home First" approach and support the development of innovative discharge solutions.

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

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