Care Co-ordinator - Ipswich, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Ipswich, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced RN/AHP to join the Long Covid Service as the Specialist Care Coordinator.

The Suffolk & North East Essex Long Covid Assessment Service (SNELCAS), which started on 1 December 2020, has enabled access for patients to system pathways for the full range of post-Covid symptoms supporting GP referral.

Working with colleagues across the Integrated Care System, we have established the SNELCAS clinic, which operates both virtually and face to face, to assess and triage patients with Long Covid symptoms, ensuring they are rapidly signposted or referred directly onwards to the appropriate intervention, service or specialist clinic for their needs.

Increasingly the SNELCAS team are delivering self management support and therapy to patients directly, 1:1 and in groups therefore reducing the need for onward referral.

The team includes a single point of referral through the Care Coordination Centre and assessment by a multidisciplinary team of Alliance based Clinicians who form a point of contact for the patient, GPs and various interventions across the West Suffolk, Ipswich & East Suffolk & North East Essex Alliances.

The team is supported by weekly MDT meetings which include a GP and Acute Care Consultant.

Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patient centred programmes of care ensuring that they practice within their sphere of competence and knowledge.
Work to professional and regulatory body codes, standards and guidance at all times ensuring that their practice is grounded in evidence based theoretical and practical knowledge.
Be responsible for developing new and innovative clinical practices responding to emerging knowledge and techniques and working with other services where appropriate to make improvements.
Coordinate the sometimes complex pathway for patients to ensure joined up care.
Provide skilled therapy clinical expertise with specialised knowledge in the area of management of Long Covid.
To provide professional leadership involving recruitment, supervision, appraisal and support and development of staff
To promote high standards of professional practice and the leadership of delivery of quality care within SNELCAS.
Plan and provide highly specialised training/education programmes for nurses, therapists and other disciplines in relation to Long Covid.
Maintain a high level of awareness of relevant research trends and national recommendations regarding Long Covid.
In partnership with the SNELCAS service lead, Finance Advisor and Human Resource Manager ensure budget setting and department finance issues are maximised to effect positive performance targets
To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the SNELCAS team complies with clinical governance and quality.

One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area.

We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

The service has embraced innovation and provides an opportunity to experience new ways of delivering patient services and harnessing digital products.

SNELCAS also links very closely with organisations in social care and the voluntary sector.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.