Clinical Care Coordinator

Job summary

The post holder will provide Clinical Care-Coordination for the population of Lancaster Medical Practice and Lancaster Integrated Care Community in line with the Better Care Together Strategy.

The post-holder will be pivotal to the ICC and will work alongside the Practice and other providers.

This role requires a flexible approach, willingness to try things out, and an ability to accept a changing remit.

The Integrated Care Community is a multidisciplinary team with a geographical footprint based within primary care communities. The aim of this team is to proactively manage clients, to prevent hospital use and allow early hospital discharge. The team model places the client and their experience firmly at the centre of the model and encourages self-support. The ICC wraps around the client and offers a simple interface where the client is able to access the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

The role is for 24 hours a week on a 12 month fixed term contract. The closing date for applications is 30 April.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be based at Lancaster Medical Practice but the work involves various locations across the locality and will work both as part of the Lancaster PCN Team and a wider multi-disciplinary group, playing a lead role in coordinating support and support to all clients within the ICC. They manage a short term caseload of identified clients, to ensure that appropriate support is delivered and that unplanned, changing needs are addressed. The post holder is expected to act as an advocate for clients.

Please note, we are unable to support candidates requiring a skilled worker visa for this post as the Practice is only able to support clinical posts at this time.

About us

Lancaster Medical Practice is a large, at-scale, GP provider delivering General Medical Services to around 68,000 patients in Lancaster and surrounding villages. Formed in April 2017 from our successful, legacy practices, Lancaster Medical Practice has continued to evolve to become the strong, high performing Practice it is today, receiving a rating of Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in August 2018.

We deliver our services from seven locations throughout the city of Lancaster and its surrounding area and are continuing to develop ourselves to improve what we do for our patients, staff and the local community. We are a progressive, modern organisation with patient-centred General Practice at our core. When joining #teamlmp you are joining an organisation with a wide variety of clinical and non-clinical roles but who all work together to provide the best care we can to our patients.

LMP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All successful candidates will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). All staff are therefore expected to behave in such a way that supports this commitment and will be responsible for safeguarding the interests of children and adults who they come into contact during their work.

Please be aware that in the event that we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the post before the closing date.