Job summary
Care Co-Ordinators provide extra time, capacity, and expertise to
support patients in preparing for or in following up clinical conversations
they have with primary care professionals. They work closely with the GPs and
Nursing Team to identify and manage a caseload of identified patients, making
sure that appropriate support is made available to them and their carers, and
ensuring that their changing needs are addressed. They focus delivery of the Comprehensive
Model for Personalised Care to reflect local priorities, health inequalities
and population health management risk stratification.
Main duties of the job
The
following areas of responsibility are an indication of the role, but could be
subject to change as the impact of primary care network commissioning evolves:
Key Responsibilities
and Duties:
A care co-ordinator (CC) may be required to
deal with patients and, if appropriate, their carer, before or after the patients consultation with a clinician or other healthcare professional.
This will include liaising with Care/Nursing homes and other health and care providers.
Working closely with the patient and their
clinician or other healthcare professional, the CC co-ordinates patients healthcare and directs them to the appropriate service
to ensure that they receive the most suitable care from whatever health or social
care provider is appropriate.
The CCs role requires
them to be able to work with, and understand the roles of, a variety of
different people working in the practice and across the PCN including doctors,
nurses, healthcare assistants, social prescribing link workers,
physiotherapists, physician associates, paramedics, health and wellbeing
coaches, podiatrists, occupational therapists and pharmacy technicians.
About us
Richmond
Surgery is the lead practice for the Fleet Primary Care Network. We currently
have 14750 registered patients and operate from a purpose build premises based
in a quiet suburb of Fleet, Hampshire.
We also have planning permission for an extensive 3rd floor
development.
We are a GMS Practice
with 4 full time GP Partners, a Managing Partner, 3 full time Physician
Associates, 3 Care Coordinators and MSK practitioners. Our clinical system is EMIS Web, and we use
ICE, Docman. We are a Yellow Fever Centre,
high QoF achievers and rated Good for CQC.
As a
business we are inventive and forward thinking with excellent patient reviews
on NHS Choices. We are a busy surgery, with an independent 24 hour
Pharmacy on site. All our teams both
clinical and admin are supportive, friendly and work very closely
together to ensure the provision of excellent service to our patients. Commitment to staff welfare is a priority to
us and we regularly support all our staff in this area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Care Co-Ordinators provide extra time, capacity, and expertise to
support patients in preparing for or in following up clinical conversations
they have with primary care professionals. They work closely with the GPs and
Nursing Team to identify and manage a caseload of identified patients, making
sure that appropriate support is made available to them and their carers, and
ensuring that their changing needs are addressed. They focus delivery of the Comprehensive
Model for Personalised Care to reflect local priorities, health inequalities
and population health management risk stratification.
For full job description, please see attached document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Care Co-Ordinators provide extra time, capacity, and expertise to
support patients in preparing for or in following up clinical conversations
they have with primary care professionals. They work closely with the GPs and
Nursing Team to identify and manage a caseload of identified patients, making
sure that appropriate support is made available to them and their carers, and
ensuring that their changing needs are addressed. They focus delivery of the Comprehensive
Model for Personalised Care to reflect local priorities, health inequalities
and population health management risk stratification.
For full job description, please see attached document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care.
- Experience of working as a Care Coordinator
- For further information please see attached document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care.
- Experience of working as a Care Coordinator
- For further information please see attached document.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
