Care Co-ordinator - Colchester, United Kingdom - Primary Care Careers

Primary Care Careers

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Colchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the Role:

Tiptree Medical Centre is currently looking to recruit a Care Coordinator to join our growing team.

The role is pivotal in ensuring all patients receive the best possible care and service.

The Care Co-Ordinator's role will support the primary care professionals in coordinating all key activity including access to services, advice, and information, and ensuring health and care planning is timely, efficient, and patient-centred.

The role will include supporting digital initiatives and includes responsibilities for the co-ordination of the patient's journey through primary care.

This is a new post developed to deliver better outcomes for vulnerable people and/or those living with frailty with a key focus on creating and supporting patients and health care providers.

As a care coordinator, you will be involved in proactive, person-centred care planning with people, overseeing and coordinating their care when needed, by bringing together the different specialists whose help the individual may need.

We are currently looking for someone who is passionate about working with patients and supporting them to coordinate their health and social care.

This will involve working with GPs, local voluntary sector services, community healthcare services, social care services and pharmacists.

If you are interested in this role and want to work for a forward thinking PCN who offer support and training in a friendly and fast paced environment, then please do apply.

About Us:

The Colte Partnership is a GP super-partnership, formed in June 2017. It brought together 9 local GP surgeries across Colchester and Tendring, serving approx. 98,000 patients.

With the combined workforce, skills and knowledge, we are in a unique position to assist our patients across the county.

As well as General Practice, we offer Extended Access appointments to enable all of our patients to access medical care at evening and weekends; we work collaboratively with external agencies to provide in home services and Social Prescribing; we are working to be at the forefront of Clinical Research; and have many more exciting ventures on the horizon.

We also work as three collaborative Primary Care Networks (PCN's) which span across Colchester and Tendring:

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice, Riverside Medical Centre & Ardleigh Surgery
Mersea Island Medical Practice, Tiptree Medical Centre & Rowhedge Medical Centre
Walton Medical Centre, Colne Medical Centre & Wivenhoe Medical Centre

There is a wide socio-economic and demographic served within this area which will provide an interesting and varied case mix.

You will be joining an enthusiastic team of clinicians and administrators. You will be well supported with on-going professional development (training support, CPD and peer support). The role will contribute to the improving quality of care of our patients across the network of practices.

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