Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Patient pathway managers- Home first acute discharge team |
| Trust | Northern Care Alliance |
| Your Placement Contact | Sue Lamph, Sarah Royle – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Patient pathway manager |
| Placement Address | Ground Floor Ladywell, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, M6 8HA |
| Placement City/Town: | Salford |
| Placement Phone | 01612060478 |
| Your University Contact: | Cath Savin – 295 2728 – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Shadowing an assessor/supervisor to learn what the job entails.
Discuss spoke placements
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
08:00-16:00 Monday-Friday
Notes:
10:00-18:00 can be arranged with an allocated worker
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
Assess and plan what care/support is required for discharge. This includes fast track end of life discharges, rapid end of life discharges, assessing patient’s who require packages of care at home, assessing patient’s who require residential or nursing care. Attending best interest meetings to discuss discharge and complex cases. Attending board round to learn from the MDT.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
The discharge to assess model is used in the home first acute discharge team, and the home first model. We explore all options to try and get the patient home safely. If this is not possible, we use the discharge to assess model to get temporary placement in a care home to allow the patient’s needs to be assessed further.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Communication
Carrying out in depth nursing assessment of care needs
MDT working
Documentation
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
If clinical skills need to be signed off, we can arrange a spoke with the wards
What resources are available to help students learning?
If clinical skills need to be signed off, we can arrange a spoke with the wards
Spoke Placements
Therapy team
Reablement in community home first hub
A day in the community home first hub
Palliative care
Can arrange a day on the ward if core skills need to be signed off
The list is not exhaustive and we can explore other spokes once we meet with the student and discuss their learning needs.
Additional Information