Frailty Care Coordinator PCN Dorking

Job summary

Dorking Primary Care Network (PCN) is looking to recruit a Frailty Care Coordinator to work with the Community Medical Team to support our patients with frailty. The successful candidate will work across the four practices of Dorking PCN; Medwyn GP surgery, Brockwood Medical Practice, Leith Hill Practice, Capel and Dorking Medical Practice in this full-time role.

This is a hugely rewarding post and the Frailty Care Co-ordinator will have a pivotal administrative role in working with the practices and the wider primary/community care team to ensure frail patients receive appropriate interventions to support them to live as independently as possible. This will involve supporting the co-ordination of a range of clinicians and social care. It will also involve working with individual patients to identify, then facilitate any support they would benefit from being delivered by the voluntary sector or health services.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, organised, caring, conscientious and want to make a difference for our patients, by helping to plan proactive services for frail patients (planned care to support people to live independently). The post holder will work alongside the Community Medical Team and liaising with the Dorking GP practices.

If successful, you will play a key role in ensuring that healthcare professionals focus their limited resources on those in most need, co-ordinating the right intervention for each patient, ensuring consistent records are kept of care plans and interventions and ensuring that records are shared appropriately with all health and social care professionals involved in caring for each patient.

About us

DHC is a GP Federation, representing 105,000 patients providing a wide range of quality healthcare services including elective care, Talking Therapies, community healthcare and primary care across Surrey, We are registered with the CQC (Care Quality Commission) and we are an accredited AQP (Any Qualified Provider).

In all of our services, we aim to put the patient at the centre of their care, make sure our services are easy to access by local patients and reduce waiting times for patients.

GP practices have been brought together into Primary Care Networks (or PCNs) to offer services in the local community. There are four Primary Care Networks as part of the DHC Federation, Redhill Phoenix PCN, Dorking PCN, South Tandridge PCN and Integrated Care Partnership PCN. The PCNs are critical to the changing NHS and are the focal point of all locally developed planning and service delivery.

In return DHC offers staff the following benefits:

• Competitive salaries
• Become part of a friendly, professional team
• We provide opportunities for training and development
• We offer membership of the NHS Pension scheme and minimum of 27 days annual leave dependent on continuous NHS service (plus Bank holidays)

DHC actively encourage and promote diversity, ensure all voices are heard and included and are committed to equal opportunities for all.