Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join a wonderful, dynamic and patient focused team providing high quality services to the Walsall community.

Whether it be supporting a team member with new skills or attending to a patient and advising their family, your role as a ICS Discharge liaison Nurse provides you with the opportunity to deliver a high standard of care to patients in their homes (pathway 1), and patient’s that require comprehensive holistic clinical assessment and monitoring in the ICS pathway 2 and 3 beds, alongside developing your leadership skills supporting your team.

To provide a case management approach to care for an identified number of patients working closely with Acute Hospital colleagues and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies for patients on the ICS pathway 1-3.

To provide clinical advice, information and education to patients and carers with the aim of enabling patients to promote maximum independence, health and well being. To enable patients living with long term physical health challenges to live well within their communities, with a focus on not only their physical health needs but also their wider holistic needs, e.g. mental health, learning disabilities, psychological needs, social needs and spiritual needs.

Main duties of the job

To work within the multi-disciplinary team to provide senior nurse advice and expertise in relation to complex discharge planning. To complete comprehensive, holistic assessments and care plans to facilitate safe and timely discharge for Walsall residents in the Walsall area and in the Out of Borough Hospitals. Actively promote early and timely discharge planning within the Trust. Support junior members of the team to promote quality and embed the ethos of ICS.

To follow patients up in community and complete further assessments to support exit from ICS pathways, this includes Trusted assessments, Continuing Health care checklists and Decision support tool assessments.

Working for our organisation

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities. 

A new Urgent Emergency Care Centre was opened in March 2023. The two-storey development has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity and has provided almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.