Job summary
We are recruiting three additional Care Coordinators to join our Living Well Team formed of Social Prescribing Link Workers, Frailty Nurses and Care Coordinators.
As a Care Coordinator you will identify and manage a caseload of specific
patients, making sure that appropriate support is made available to them and
their carers.
The interview for this role will be held on the morning of Monday 6th February 2023.
Main duties of the job
The key responsibilities of the role
are outlined below:
- Provide
coordination and navigation for people and their carers across health and care
services.
- With the
support of the Practice and Network proactively identify a cohort of people in
need of anticipatory coordinated support, using local knowledge and population
health intelligence
-
Lead the organisation,
coordination and delivery of MDTs within the PCN including producing the
agenda and taking minutes.
-
Attend the MDTs, recording and following up actions within defined
timescales agreed during the meeting
- Improve
continuity of care by acting as a point of contact for people, families and
professionals
- Bring together
a persons identified care and support needs and explore their options to meet
these into a single personalised care and support plan
- Ensure
that people have good quality information to help them make choices about their
care and structure conversations using a coaching approach
- Provide time, capacity and
expertise to support people in preparing for or following-up on clinical
conversations with health professionals
-
Work with members of the primary care teams to
develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and
timely data to monitor and evaluate services
About us
North and South Gloucester Primary Care Network is formed of five GP surgeries (Brockworth Surgery, Chruchdown Surgery, Hucclecote Surgery, Longlevens Surgery and The Alney Practice). We have over 54,000 registered patients across our Network.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Care Coordinators play an important
role within our PCN working closely with our GP practice teams, our PCN Living
Well Team and wider health and social care and community colleagues. They
identify and manage a caseload of specific patients, making sure that
appropriate support is made available to them and their carers. This is
achieved by bringing together all the information about a persons identified
care and support needs and exploring options to meet these within a single
personalised care and support plan, based on what matters to the person. Care coordinators will set up and
co-ordinated MDT meetings and be the point of contact for the team. They will
be involved with risk stratification, data searches, monitoring and evaluation
of services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Care Coordinators play an important
role within our PCN working closely with our GP practice teams, our PCN Living
Well Team and wider health and social care and community colleagues. They
identify and manage a caseload of specific patients, making sure that
appropriate support is made available to them and their carers. This is
achieved by bringing together all the information about a persons identified
care and support needs and exploring options to meet these within a single
personalised care and support plan, based on what matters to the person. Care coordinators will set up and
co-ordinated MDT meetings and be the point of contact for the team. They will
be involved with risk stratification, data searches, monitoring and evaluation
of services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of education with 5 C/GCSEs or equivalent
Desirable
- Further Education Qualifications or Degree level education
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in the NHS (preferably in Primary Care) or for a private care provider. This could be in clinical or non clinical role.
- For more details regarding the person specification please see the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of education with 5 C/GCSEs or equivalent
Desirable
- Further Education Qualifications or Degree level education
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in the NHS (preferably in Primary Care) or for a private care provider. This could be in clinical or non clinical role.
- For more details regarding the person specification please see the attached Job Description.
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).
