Discharge Coordinator
Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/18/2025
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Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an induvial to working within mental health urgent care within the Discharge Coordinator role within Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment teams across Liverpool and Sefton geographical footprint.
The post holder will act as a key liaison person between the inpatient units, the crisis resolution home treatment team & the bed management team . The post holder will be responsible for the effective coordination of patient discharges throughout the mental health inpatient units. The post holder will work closely with inpatient clinicians and multi-disciplinary team members to deliver a high quality, patient focussed service.
The post holder will be based with the CRHT at Broadoak Unit however will be expected to mobilise between sites to understand and monitor the capacity and flow through CRHTs and inpatients.
The post holder will attend and participate in daily bed capacity meetings, ensuring provision of predicted discharge activity for that day and data relating to the progress of patients being managed through the discharge planning process.
To ensure a seamless approach by liaising with colleagues as required e.g. CRHT, ward based staff, community services.
To inform internal and external staff when in patient capacity is anticipated to be insufficient to meet predicted emergency or elected demand, requesting additional support to expedite hospital discharges.
To arrange and attend discharge planning meetings on allocated wards.
To attend the daily multi-disciplinary morning meetings in these wards to ensure appropriate length of stay / estimated discharge dates are applied, monitored and adhered to.
To complete follow up review post discharge with service users in the community
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alice Broadbent Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01512505082
The post holder will act as a key liaison person between the inpatient units, the crisis resolution home treatment team & the bed management team . The post holder will be responsible for the effective coordination of patient discharges throughout the mental health inpatient units. The post holder will work closely with inpatient clinicians and multi-disciplinary team members to deliver a high quality, patient focussed service.
The post holder will be based with the CRHT at Broadoak Unit however will be expected to mobilise between sites to understand and monitor the capacity and flow through CRHTs and inpatients.
The post holder will attend and participate in daily bed capacity meetings, ensuring provision of predicted discharge activity for that day and data relating to the progress of patients being managed through the discharge planning process.
To ensure a seamless approach by liaising with colleagues as required e.g. CRHT, ward based staff, community services.
To inform internal and external staff when in patient capacity is anticipated to be insufficient to meet predicted emergency or elected demand, requesting additional support to expedite hospital discharges.
To arrange and attend discharge planning meetings on allocated wards.
To attend the daily multi-disciplinary morning meetings in these wards to ensure appropriate length of stay / estimated discharge dates are applied, monitored and adhered to.
To complete follow up review post discharge with service users in the community
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alice Broadbent Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01512505082
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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