- Experience of working as a HCA
- Experience in a patient/customer facing role
- Administration experience
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice
- GSCE grade A - C (or equivalent) in Maths and English, or higher level qualification
- NVQ3 in Health & Social Care
- Access to a vehicle and a full, clean driving licence is essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent empathy and listening skills
- Prioritisation skills
- Good IT skills
Learning Disability Care Coordinator - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Our Health Partnership
Description
Job summary
We are looking for a full-time Learning Disability Care Coordinator to join our existing team supporting patients across the Kingstanding, Erdington & Nechells Primary Care Network.
The ideal candidate will have experience working as a HCA as well as excellent administrative skills.
Main duties of the job
As care coordinator you will be coordinating a process to support the needs of patients with Learning Disability or Mental Health Diagnosis.
You will need to build relationships with each practice within the PCN and work closely with other Care Coordinators within the PCN to ensure the needs of patients are met.
About us
Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who arepassionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time andskills effectively to benefit patients.
We are currently a GP partnership of 30 practices with 39sites, serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, andShropshire.
The partnership offers a shared administrative andmanagement structure, cutting down the time doctors have to spend on admin. Itopens up economies of scale to get best value from budgets and can access newfunding streams that are only available to large GP organisations. It has theresources to develop innovative services and effective partnerships with localhospitals and care services.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
You will be responsible for providing support to practices to ensure that patients receive regular check ups , medication reviews and Care plans.
The care coordinator will ensure that the persons needs are met, will value the important of their choice and decision making in their life, and will actively seek to encourage gifts and abilities.
The position is available immediately once a suitable candidate has been appointed, full induction will be provided to ensure mandatory training completed and an understanding of general practice.
The post holder will need to be motivated to develop the role based on the needs of the practices across the PCN, ideally creating a pathway to ensure all patients receive a high level of support to meet their health needs.
Person SpecificationExperience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills & Abilities
Essential