Assistant Discharge Co-ordinator position (FOI)

Request

I am enquiring about a new post which recently came to my attention. The role is assistant Discharge Co-ordinator. It seems that [name redacted] was appointed to this role on 5 October 2020.

A

What grade is the role?

B

What qualifications were required for the role?

C

When and where was it advertised?

D

Does it have what was previously called “J” category licence and why is it so difficult to get “J” category to recruit for therapy staff?

E

Who is supervising this role?

F

Is it within health or social work?

Response

A

The grade of the role is Civil Service 7.

B

There are no formal qualifications required for this role, however, the role requires extensive knowledge of integrated discharge co-ordination in a care setting and experience of liaising with multi-disciplinary teams.

C

This is a zero hours bank role, there is no specific advert for bank roles, job pools for bank roles are open throughout the year, applications submitted are placed in a pool and are managed through the standard recruitment process.

D

This role does not require a licence.

E

The role is supervised by a Senior Practitioner Social Care.

F

The role is within Health and Community Services to support the Social Work team discharge clients to Care Homes.