Job summary
Care Coordinator
28 hours per week Starting Salary £21,930 pro rata
The Clover Group as part of
the Sevnhills + PCN has recently won a HSJ Primary Care Innovation Award for
its Covid-19 Cold Visiting Service. Taking forward the principles of delivering
proactive care for our most vulnerable patients, the Clover Outreach Visiting
Team (COVT) has been created. This role will be a key role in this team.
Main duties of the job
A Care Co-ordinator (CC) may be
required to deal with patients and, if appropriate, their carer, before and
after the patients consultation with a clinician or other healthcare
professional.
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 get
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 practice including doctors, nurses,
healthcare assistants, social prescribing link workers, physiotherapists, and pharmacists.
About us
Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is
a GP led organisation with all independent Sheffield practices holding shares
in the company. We aim to improve patient care through a unified supportive
approach to general practice. We directly manage seven very different practices in the city, which sit in 4 Primary
Care Networks.
We also provide workforce
solutions to practices in the city that include clinical pharmacists, first
contact physiotherapists and ECPs. We work with the universities and HEE to
support employment opportunities for a range of post registration groups in
general practice.
PCS holds a full seat at the
city wide Accountable Care Partnership, alongside the three Foundation Trusts,
the CCG and the City Council. We have excellent working relationships with each
of these organisations and along with the CCG and the LMC we have ensured that
general practice will become increasingly important in the development of
health and care services in the city.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A Care Co-ordinator (CC) may be
required to deal with patients and, if appropriate, their carer, before and
after the patients consultation with a clinician or other healthcare
professional.
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 get
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 practice including doctors, nurses,
healthcare assistants, social prescribing link workers, physiotherapists, and pharmacists.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A Care Co-ordinator (CC) may be
required to deal with patients and, if appropriate, their carer, before and
after the patients consultation with a clinician or other healthcare
professional.
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 get
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 practice including doctors, nurses,
healthcare assistants, social prescribing link workers, physiotherapists, and pharmacists.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Knowledge of how Primary and Social care systems work
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with patients/clients and influencing choices
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
Attributes
Essential
- Able to engage with patients who are more challenging to communicate and engage with
- Reliable
- Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating
- Ability to travel around Darnall/Highgate area to visit patients at home
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Good IT and MS Office skills
- Able or willing to learn to take bloods, undertake biometric tests
- Able or willing to learn to take bloods, undertake biometric tests
Desirable
- SystmOne experience
- Able to manage multiple competing priorities
Person Specification
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Knowledge of how Primary and Social care systems work
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with patients/clients and influencing choices
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
Attributes
Essential
- Able to engage with patients who are more challenging to communicate and engage with
- Reliable
- Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating
- Ability to travel around Darnall/Highgate area to visit patients at home
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Good IT and MS Office skills
- Able or willing to learn to take bloods, undertake biometric tests
- Able or willing to learn to take bloods, undertake biometric tests
Desirable
- SystmOne experience
- Able to manage multiple competing priorities
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.
