Job summary

At UHBW we are creating two new Transfer of Care Hubs to support our patients with discharge planning from admission through leaving hospital and into the community; one Hub at the Bristol Site and one at Weston General Hospital. The Transfer of Care Hub will bring together our community partners (Sirona), Local Authorities and Voluntary Sectorcolleagues across BNSSG tocreate a new team from multidisciplinary backgrounds.

The Transfer of Care Hub will bring together, Acute Trust Case Managers, and Patient Flow Coordinators, Social Workers, Local Authority Discharge Coordinators, Sirona Case Managers, Community OT’s, the Homeless Support Team, Voluntary Services and Flow and Discharge Coordinators.

We are looking to recruit a Homeless Support Team Acute Trust Case Manager (for Bristol site with some telephone support to Weston site ) to join the Transfer of Care Hub.

You will be part of the Homeless Support Team, working with patients experiencing or at risk of homelessness supporting them through the hospital pathway. We aim to encourage and support engagement with health and social care services, improving health outcomes and ensuring safe and timely discharge into accommodation whenever possible

Main duties of the job

You would be joining a dynamic patient-centred team, providing an excellent service to our patients and ward colleagues. Working within a supportive and friendly environment, you will be encouraged to participate and share learning with colleagues across the team.

We are looking for a nurses or AHP to join our team to promote heath inclusion for our patients, improving their experience of using services within the hospital and the discharge pathway.

We are looking for an outstanding individual who:

• Always puts the person at the centre of their care
• Has experience , knowledge or an interest of those experiencing homelessness and severe and multiple disadvantage
• Is enthusiastic, driven and practical
• Has excellent communication and engagement skills working within a trauma informed approach
• Is able to prioritise workload, problem solve and work flexibly and responsively
• Can use their own initiative, be able to manage their own caseload as well as working as part of a team

This is a full time post hours a week with scope for flexible working with Secondment considered

About us

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.