Pcn Care Coordinator - Gloucester, United Kingdom - North & South Gloucester Primary Care Network
2 weeks ago
Description
We are recruiting three additional Care Coordinators to join our Living Well Team formed of Social Prescribing Link Workers, Frailty Nurses and Care Coordinators.
As a Care Coordinator you will identify and manage a caseload of specific patients, making sure that appropriate support is made available to them and their carers.
The key responsibilities of the role are outlined below:
Provide coordination and navigation for people and their carers across health and care services.
With the support of the Practice and Network proactively identify a cohort of people in need of anticipatory coordinated support, using local knowledge and population health intelligence
Lead the organisation, coordination and delivery of MDTs within the PCN including producing the agenda and taking minutes.
Attend the MDTs, recording and following up actions within defined timescales agreed during the meeting
Improve continuity of care by acting as a point of contact for people, families and professionals
Bring together a persons identified care and support needs and explore their options to meet these into a single personalised care and support plan
Ensure that people have good quality information to help them make choices about their care and structure conversations using a coaching approach
Provide time, capacity and expertise to support people in preparing for or following-up on clinical conversations with health professionals
Work with members of the primary care teams to develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data to monitor and evaluate services
About us
North and South Gloucester Primary Care Network is formed of five GP surgeries (Brockworth Surgery, Chruchdown Surgery, Hucclecote Surgery, Longlevens Surgery and The Alney Practice).
Job responsibilities
Care Coordinators play an important role within our PCN working closely with our GP practice teams, our PCN Living Well Team and wider health and social care and community colleagues.
They identify and manage a caseload of specific patients, making sure that appropriate support is made available to them and their carers.
This is achieved by bringing together all the information about a persons identified care and support needs and exploring options to meet these within a single personalised care and support plan, based on what matters to the person.
Care coordinators will set up and co-ordinated MDT meetings and be the point of contact for the team. They will be involved with risk stratification, data searches, monitoring and evaluation of services.Person Specification
Qualifications:
Essential
Good standard of education with 5 C/GCSEs or equivalent
Desirable
Further Education Qualifications or Degree level education
Experience
Essential
Experience of working in the NHS (preferably in Primary Care) or for a private care provider. This could be in clinical or non clinical role.
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