Care Co-ordinator - Wakefield, United Kingdom - Conexus Healthcare Ltd

Conexus Healthcare Ltd

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Wakefield, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Closing Date - 19th May 2023

Job summary
A Care Co-ordinator exists to make a difference to the lives of our patients. Building relationships with our patients and their families is key to our success. Every day is different and at times the work is fast paced.

We like to make sure that our teams have opportunities to develop and contribute to the growth of our forward-thinking PCN.

Our team work flexibly to meet the needs of our patients but also allowing them some flexibility to suit their needs.

There is potential for some home working, although much of our work involved face to face contact with patients in their own homes and in practices.

This is a diverse role where you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to patients and their families.

You will be trained (if required) to undertake learning disability reviews, dementia reviews, frailty reviews, co-ordinate MDT meetings, reduce the risk of unplanned hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharge from hospitals, and to effectively support the delivery of person-centred care to people who are housebound and living in care homes.

In this role you will have the opportunity to significantly improve quality of care, outcomes, and safety for patients. Feedback from patients for the work the team is really positive and the service is much appreciated

You will be working as part of a team to provide the following services to patients at home, in practice and in care homes (training will be provided):
Cancer care reviews

Dementia reviews

LD reviews

One stop shops

Home support

Personalised Care and Support Plans

Frailty reviews

Carer support

Increasing cancer screening uptake

Discharge support.

We would like you to join our fantastic team of Health and Wellbeing Coaches, Social Prescribing Link Workers, Nurse Associates, Occupational Therapists, Pharmacists, Paramedics and GP Assistants etc.

We all work closely withthe Practices, Community Pharmacy, the Voluntary and Community Sector, as well as statutory service providers including the CCG.

Full details in the job description.

About us

West Wakefield is a Primary Care Network of 5 practices; we are a network of forward-thinking General Practices covering circa 68,000 patients in the West Wakefield area.

Conexus Healthcare CIC is the Confederation for general practice in Wakefield, we have four areas of work.

1.Delivery of highquality publicfacing Health and Wellbeing services across the

Wakefield District:
_We develop, manage and deliver health and care services that support the population of the whole Wakefield district

Delivery of Training, Development and Consultancy support across the United Kingdom:
_We design and deliver a range of training courses, development activity and provide advice and guidance.

3.Supporting Our Practices and Primary Care Networks (PCNs):_We support general practices and PCNs across the Wakefield district to be more resilient, sustainable and deliver better patient care.
4.

Providing a voice and influence for General Practice in the Health and Care System:

_We provide a forum to develop a unified voice for General Practice and support general practices to cooperate and work collaboratively.

Built within primary care, for primary care, Conexus Healthcare Limited works with local GPs and their practices to champion investment in and deliver effective primary care at scale.

By connecting in this way, we are stronger, more resilient and can care effectively for over 370,000 local people together.

Job description

Job responsibilities
The post will evolve as we develop our services but you will be required to undertake the following duties:

Cancer care reviews
Dementia reviews
LD reviews
Organise and run one stop shops
Frailty reviews
Carer support
Increasing cancer screening uptake
Prevent inappropriate admissions, and support people to have an effective discharge from services
You will help tackle inequalities in health and social care. An ethos of promotion of independence and partnershipworking is integral to this post.
Work with people, their families and carers to improve their understanding of the patients condition and support them to develop and review personalised care and support plans
Help people to manage their needs through answering queries, making and managing appo