Job summary
Stanford & Corringham PCN are recruiting aCare Coordinator for Thurrock Healthier Future clinic.With teaching and dispensing member practices, there is a great opportunity for learning and further development. There is a wide scope of work from audits and chronic disease management,. This post represents plenty to challenge. This post is about integrating with an experienced team and we are looking for a team member to grow with our enthusiastic and innovative PCN.
Main duties of the job
Care coordinators play an important role within a PCN to proactively identify and work with people, including the frail/elderly and those with long-term conditions, to provide coordination and navigation of care and support across health and care services.
This role will work within the Thurrock Healthier Future clinic reporting into the Health and Wellbeing coaches and the Advanced Nurse practitioner. The aim of the team is to support obese patients with weight management approaches, support patients with cardio-vascular disease and high blood pressure too.
The role may at other times work closely with GPs and practice teams to manage a caseload of patients, acting as a central point of contact to ensure appropriate support is made available to them and their carers; supporting them to understand and manage their condition and ensuring their changing needs are addressed.
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.
About us
Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham PCN is situated in a scenic, semi rural part of South West Essex, comprising six close knit GP surgeries. The successful candidate will join a team of not only GPs and nurses but existing clinical pharmacists, physiotherapists, physicians associates, paramedics and pharmacy technicians.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Care coordinators review patients needs and help them access the services and support they require to understand and manage their own health and wellbeing, referring to social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches, and other professionals where appropriate.
Care coordinators could potentially provide time, capacity and expertise to support people in preparing for or following-up clinical conversations they have with primary care professionals to enable them to be actively involved in managingtheir care and supported to make choices that are right for them. Their aim is to help people improve their quality oflife.
This role is intended to become an integral part of the PCNs multidisciplinary team, working alongside social prescribing link workers and health and wellbeing coaches to provide an all-encompassing approach to personalised care and promoting and embedding the personalised care approach across the PCN.
There may be a need to work remotely depending on the requirements of the role. Please note that the role of a care coordinator is not a clinical role.
Please see the attached job spec for further details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Care coordinators review patients needs and help them access the services and support they require to understand and manage their own health and wellbeing, referring to social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches, and other professionals where appropriate.
Care coordinators could potentially provide time, capacity and expertise to support people in preparing for or following-up clinical conversations they have with primary care professionals to enable them to be actively involved in managingtheir care and supported to make choices that are right for them. Their aim is to help people improve their quality oflife.
This role is intended to become an integral part of the PCNs multidisciplinary team, working alongside social prescribing link workers and health and wellbeing coaches to provide an all-encompassing approach to personalised care and promoting and embedding the personalised care approach across the PCN.
There may be a need to work remotely depending on the requirements of the role. Please note that the role of a care coordinator is not a clinical role.
Please see the attached job spec for further details.
Person Specification
About the Candidate
Essential
- Care coordinators review patients needs and help them access the services and support they require to understand and manage their own health and wellbeing, referring to social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches, and other professionals where appropriate.
- Care coordinators could potentially provide time, capacity and expertise to support people in preparing for or following-up clinical conversations they have with primary care professionals to enable them to be actively involved in managing their care and supported to make choices that are right for them. Their aim is to help people improve their quality of life.
- This role is intended to become an integral part of the PCNs multidisciplinary team, working alongside social prescribing link workers and health and wellbeing coaches to provide an all-encompassing approach to personalised care and promoting and embedding the personalised care approach across the PCN.
- There may be a need to work remotely depending on the requirements of the role. Please note that the role of a care coordinator is not a clinical role.
- Please see the attached job spec for further details.
Person Specification
About the Candidate
Essential
- Care coordinators review patients needs and help them access the services and support they require to understand and manage their own health and wellbeing, referring to social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches, and other professionals where appropriate.
- Care coordinators could potentially provide time, capacity and expertise to support people in preparing for or following-up clinical conversations they have with primary care professionals to enable them to be actively involved in managing their care and supported to make choices that are right for them. Their aim is to help people improve their quality of life.
- This role is intended to become an integral part of the PCNs multidisciplinary team, working alongside social prescribing link workers and health and wellbeing coaches to provide an all-encompassing approach to personalised care and promoting and embedding the personalised care approach across the PCN.
- There may be a need to work remotely depending on the requirements of the role. Please note that the role of a care coordinator is not a clinical role.
- Please see the attached job spec for further details.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
