Senior Home First Coordinator - Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
The City of Edinburgh Council · Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Senior Home First Coordinator
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh or Western General Hospital
Salary: £47,639 - £56,392
Hours: 36 per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Home First service within Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership as a Senior Home First Coordinator.
Purpose of job
To provide operational and professional leadership to an integrated multidisciplinary team based within the acute hospital setting. Lead, manage and coordinate the delivery of statutory social care functions within the hospital environment, working in partnership with community services and third sector organisations.
The role is responsible for ensuring safe, timely and effective discharge of individuals from hospital, supporting patient flow across acute and community pathways. This includes leading a proactive and coordinated approach to discharge planning, identifying individuals early in their hospital stay and facilitating timely access to community support.
Key activities will include:
- Provide day-to-day operational management of an integrated team of social care employees, supporting them to deliver high-quality, person-centred services.
- Oversee complex hospital discharges, including patients who have become delayed. This will include supporting and coordinating the discharge of patients who require community support.
- Monitor and manage service performance including delayed discharge, patient flow, and service demand.
- Allocate and prioritise workload across the team, contribute to service planning and development and respond to changing service demands and priorities.
- Lead and coordinate discharge planning processes within the acute setting, including ensuring early identification of individuals requiring support.
- Support safe and effective transitions of care by facilitating timely access to community services and resources.
- Work collaboratively with internal and external teams across the unscheduled care system, promoting effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
- Represent the service at multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, flow huddles and service forums.
- Support employees in decision-making and risk assessment, ensuring appropriate safeguarding and risk management arrangements are in place.
- Adopt a person-centred approach to ensure patients are discharged from hospital to the most appropriate environment according to their need.
- Create an environment that supports assessment and learning of employees providing to enable all team members to continuously update, develop and implement current knowledge and skills to meet changing needs of the service. Including encouraging innovation.
- Ensure compliance with relevant policies, legislation and statutory responsibilities. Maintaining professional standards and governance.
- Lead and contribute to service improvement initiatives, supporting implementation of new service models.
- Support management of delegated budgets, ensuring services are delivered within available resources.
- Contribute to decisions on allocation of care resources, authorising support plans within agreed limits.
- Provide professional advice to inform decision-making across the service, ensuring effective communication in complex and sensitive situations.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4
As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We’re interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
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Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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