IDT Nurse Assessor | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

IDT Nurse Assessor | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Company: Southend University Hospital NHS Trust

Join Our Integrated Discharge Team – Make a Real Difference Every Day

We’re looking for a bright, motivated and hardworking nurse to join our energetic and supportive Integrated Discharge Team at Broomfield Hospital for a maternity leave cover until August 2027.

In this rewarding role, you’ll be central to helping patients move safely and smoothly from hospital to home or onward care. You’ll assess patients who are medically optimised for discharge, identify their ongoing care needs, and coordinate timely referrals to community and system partners—ensuring every discharge is safe, effective and patient‑centred.

Strong communication is at the heart of what we do. You’ll work closely with patients, families, multidisciplinary teams and wider system partners, using your clinical judgement and interpersonal skills to remove barriers to discharge and maintain effective patient flow across the hospital.

If you thrive in a fast‑paced environment, enjoy collaborative working, and want to make a tangible impact on patient experience and hospital flow, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills while contributing to a vital service.

Work with patients and their families who have complex needs and conditions to support timely, safe and effective discharge into the community.

Provide professional guidance and support to patients and carers throughout the discharge planning process.

Develop and coordinate holistic discharge plans in partnership with patients, families and multi‑agency colleagues.

Ensure discharge interventions are appropriate, coordinated and not duplicated across services.

Support patients with complex healthcare needs, including those requiring long‑term health and social care planning or short‑term intervention following acute illness or deterioration.

Anticipate, coordinate and integrate health and social care needs for patients at high risk of unplanned hospital admissions.

Work at the centre of integrated care planning within Broomfield Hospital, alongside Social Care, voluntary organisations and other external partners.

Act as a key point of contact for liaison and communication between the hospital and community services, including informal and formal carers.

Facilitate smooth, safe and effective transfers of care from hospital to home and between community and acute settings.

Contribute to improved quality of care and patient satisfaction through effective discharge coordination.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Are you looking for an exciting IDT Nurse Assessor role using your unique qualities? Then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Oct 2026