Health Squad Locality Co-ordinator - Easington, United Kingdom - Pioneering Care Partnership

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The purpose of the role is to support the Health Squad Programme Lead in the development, mobilisation and delivery of the new County Durham Health Squad programme and line manage a team of Advanced Practitioners.

The post holder will support management, line manage and deliver interventions, including health checks, with clients.

The role will be at the forefront of addressing health inequalities across County

Durham working in partnership with a variety of other key teams and will be vital to

the success of the programme.


Health Squad will operate across County Durham to support the navigation of people found to be at risk through both generic and specialist healthcare services depending on their priority needs.

The aim of the initiative is to support reductions in Health Inequalities linked to the CORE20Plus5 "Plus" programme supporting people with multiple and complex health and healthcare needs.

The target groups have been identified as people who are homeless, prison leavers / on probation, vulnerable migrants, Gypsy Roma and Traveller communities, people with learning disabilities, people from ethnic minority communities and carers.


The Locality Coordinator will support the Health Squad Programme Lead with the overall development, implementation and delivery of the service.

Due to the nature of the clients, often being part of hard-to-reach groups / communities there will be a requirement to
work flexibly including some weekends and evenings.


The post holder must have excellent communication skills in order to engage and deliver support for vulnerable populations who are not utilizing health care services.

The post holder must have a willingness to undertake mandatory and role specific training within a specified timescale.


  • To line manage staff and support in the development of the staff model for the service based on identified competencies required to deliver the patient journey
  • To support staff in the development and management of their caseloads, providing support and quality monitoring to all aspects of their roles
  • To support staff to develop new services / activities based on identified health need
  • To demonstrate innovative and creative practice to engage with vulnerable clients and utilise support from the wider wellbeing services and relevant clinical and community teams
  • Develop and manage a caseload of clients from the targeted vulnerable population groups to optimise their health and wellbeing
  • Use a personalised approach to care to support clients to seek and undertake appropriate support
  • Work with individuals providing support (digital, face to face, group or home based) through behaviour and lifestyle change, by developing step change personalised action plans and referring and supporting to relevant specialist services
  • Engage with clients and offering them support and brief intervention advice and offering physical health checks, including, finger prick sampling, BP readings, body measurements, and undertaking mental wellbeing assessment tools
  • Source a holistic package of support to assist the development of skills and knowledge, and in particular assisting individuals to progress and achieve their health goals
  • Plan, deliver and evaluate a range of interactive health and wellbeing activities
  • Be responsible for data management of clients, within the locality, including inputting information onto databases and creating reports
  • To signpost or refer individual clients to a range of health improvement lifestyle interventions, primary and secondary care services and/or voluntary and community support.
  • Work with partners and existing groups to develop the referral pathways for support
  • Work in partnership with clinical specialists to offer a multimodal and integrated programme, that avoids clients being passed between services
  • Carry out activity evaluation in line with the project plan and learning from best practice
  • Collate and present verbal and written reports as required
  • Contribute to knowledge sharing and learning before, during and after projects, and to the development of a culture that helps colleagues become confident in using the appropriate technology and develop skills
The post holder will be expected to work and communicate with a range of organisations and individuals to achieve the project aims: these will include:

  • County Durham Wellbeing for Life
  • County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
  • Other relevant teams within CDDFT e.g. Dietetics, Speech and Language, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry Social Prescribing Link Workers, Joining the Dots etc.
  • Durham County Council / Area Action Partnerships
  • Community and Third Sector Organisations
  • Primary Care services, specifically Teams Around the Patient
  • Other Wellbeing programmes in County Durham
  • Patients, volunteers
  • Media

General

  • To uphold PCP's Core Values at all times.
  • To co
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