Senior Nurse Co-Ordinator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an NMC Registered Band 6 Senior Nurse Co-ordinator to join the Discharge to Assess (D2A), Home First Service in East Staffordshire. The team provides clinical support to avoid hospital admissions or support patients returning home after acute care. You will work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team to ensure high-quality care delivery and provide specialist assessment and care planning. The role involves working shift patterns covering a 24/7 365-day period and independent travel.
Key responsibilities
- Assess, manage, plan and deliver care whilst providing support to your peers and team leader.
- Triage referrals for the discharge to assess pathway in line with the referral criteria.
- Provide holistic complex assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care (e.g., Chronic Disease Management, Tissue Viability, Palliative Care).
- Supervise pre-registration students.
- Work collaboratively and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies.
- Act as a role model and motivate team members in working towards an innovative and high standard of practice.
Essential criteria
- RGN Qualification Degree
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Physical Health Assessment Mentor/ Student Qualification
- Experience of working within a multi- disciplinary environment
- Clinical experience in either an acute or community setting
- Understanding of the aims and objectives of the national discharge to assess pathway and national reporting/ timescales.
- Experience of making independent decisions
- Experience of resolving complex issues/situations
- Understand the importance of chronic disease management and rehabilitation with in the community
- Working knowledge of professional practice across the Local Health Economy
- Working knowledge of policies and procedures relating to health and safety and risk assessments
- Assessment skills and evaluation of safe discharge
- Proactive case management leading to timely discharges
- Able to plan, pre-prioritise and delegating the patient caseload appropriately
- Strong interpersonal and communication and leadership skills
- Good organisation skills and ability to prioritise and work in a self-directed way
- Able to drive
Desirable criteria
- Certificate in management studies Nurse prescribing (V150/300)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Nurse Co-Ordinator
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a NMC Registered Band 6 Senior Nurse Co-ordinator to join our Discharge to Access (D2A), Home First Service based in the surrounding areas of East Staffordshire.
The Home First Team provides clinical support for patients in the community to either avoid potential hospital admissions or to support people to return home through the Discharge to Assess Pathway following a period of acute care in hospital.
We pride ourselves on the delivery of quality care to community patients, many with complex needs and we actively promote the philosophy of self-care and the promotion of independence whilst offering the facilities of rehabilitation and assessment. The ethos of the team is to facilitate safe hospital discharges for patients leaving acute care and to offer them nursing support in their own home environment so they can remain in their own home and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
As an efficient and effective team member you will work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team alongside the Operational Leadership to ensure high quality care delivery to service users and provide specialist assessment and care planning in conjunction with service users and carers.
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