Flow and Discharge Co-ordinator Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role supports the Flow and Discharge Team within acute inpatient services, focusing on patients with barriers to timely discharge. The post holder will work collaboratively with various teams and services to identify and unblock factors delaying discharge and ensure appropriate aftercare. Key responsibilities include supporting discharge planning, liaising with external agencies like housing, and assisting patients with benefits and community support. The role aims to facilitate effective and efficient patient flow and management of inpatient beds.
Essential criteria
- Mental health experience
- basic excel, spreadsheets and updating of reports
Desirable criteria
- Full Driving licence with access to a car
- Mental Health experience
- Minimum 2 years experience in a mental health setting
- Competence
- Competent in English and Maths
- Communication
- Good communication skills both verbally and written
- Administrative experience
- Mental health experience
- basic excel, spreadsheets and updating of reports
- Full Driving licence with access to a car
- Mental Health experience
- Minimum 2 years experience in a mental health setting
- Competence
- Competent in English and Maths
- Communication
- Good communication skills both verbally and written
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £30,630 – £32,346 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Flow and Discharge Co-ordinator Assistant
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
ImportantSponsorshipInformation for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate ofsponsorshipfor this post.
The post holder will work as a key member of the Flow and Discharge Team based within the acute inpatient services (working age adult and older peoples). The post holder will work collaboratively directly with the band 6 discharge coordinators as well as with the Patient Flow Hub, Senior Flow and Discharge Coordinators (SF&DC), inpatient wards (internal and external), crisis teams, relevant community teams / services, service users and their families, working in a targeted way to achieve the best pathway for inpatients on discharge with early identification of factors that would potentially delay timely discharge and impact on provision of appropriate aftercare.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will focus mainly on patients with barriers to discharge across all three boroughs who require specific targeted support to unblock barriers to discharge that does not require the input of a registered nurse. To sit organisationally within the Patient Flow services and be present on the inpatient wards working with an identified caseload to enable effective discharge planning. The postholder would be required to tr
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