Care Co-ordinator

Colchester - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 14 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Colchester Medical Practicehas an opportunity for a care co-ordinator to join our teamon afull-time basis working 37 hours per week over 5 days. This role is based at our Wimpole Road Site.

The post-holder will provide extra time capacity and expertise to our practice team to help us to improve the care provided to our patients.

The main duties of the role include:

Working within our proactive care team following up with patients who have recently been discharged from hospital.
Working with GPs and other professionals within the practice to identify and manage a caseload of patients. Particularly working with vulnerable patient groups with long-term conditions that may require this extra support. This may include working with individuals their carers families and healthcare teams.
Using in-depth knowledge of locally available support and services todevelop care plans with patient focusing on prevention.
Supporting the coordination of all key activity including access to services advice and information as well as ensuring that health and care planning is timely efficient and patient-centred.
Helping patients prepare for or follow-up after clinical conversations.
Supporting digital initiatives.
Using clinical systems on a daily basis with confidence to run searches and keep care records up-to-date.
Dealing with day to day admin re safeguarding.

About the Candidate

If you are a skilled care co-ordinator with excellent person-centred planning experience and strong local knowledge for accessing key support then we would love to hear from you.

The ideal applicant will have the following skills experience and qualifications:

Experience of working within healthcare the voluntary or community sector to support vulnerable groups.
Diploma Level 2 in Health and Social Care or an equivalent qualification (desirable not essential).
Familiar with local resources and services including how to access them.
Motivated by helping people with care and empathy.
Able to deliver person-centred support in a non-judgmental way.
Experience of completing holistic person-centred care planning assessments.
Strong listening and communication skills.

About Us

Colchester Medical Practice is a well established PCN delivering excellent care to over 42000 patients across the city of Colchester. We have four sites (Shrub End Surgery Castle Gardens Medical Practice Wimpole Road Surgery and Parsons Heath Medical Practice) and a new health and wellbeing hub based at our Parsons Heath site.

The practice is well established with a rating of GOOD by the Care Quality Commission. As a practice we employ over 120 colleagues to provide excellent healthcare to patients across Colchester.

We offer:

NHS pension scheme.
Proper pay -Living Wage Foundation accredited.
Eye-care vouchers.
Health service discounts.
Annual leave: minimum 33 days FTE.
Enhanced maternity and paternity terms.
Uniform provided for colleagues if required.
Free use of Holly Health mental wellbeing app.
Flexible working contracts available upon request.
Excellent training opportunities and progression provided.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Colchester Medical Practicehas an opportunity for a care co-ordinator to join our teamon afull-time basis working 37 hours per week over 5 days. This role is based at our Wimpole Road Site.The post-holder will provide extra time capacity and expertise to our practice team to help us to improve the c...