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The postholder has the responsibility for influencing and facilitating patient/carer centred integrated care pathway for the patient prior to their hospital admission and during the discharge process striving for an effective discharge management process, utilising high levels of decision making and clinical judgment and providing specialist advice to healthcare professionals, other agencies, carers, clients and relatives.
The postholder is responsible for establishing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating discharge management and education processes in collaboration with; hospital multidisciplinary teams, hospital discharge hubs, facilitators and home first practitioners locality teams and hub, primary care.
For informal enquiries please contact Fiona Wilson (Delayed Discharge Lead) on Tel:- 07896 969 993 or via email:- fiona.wilson@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.