Job Description

Job summary

Kingfisher PCN Additional Roles Team is viewed as a significant opportunity. The role involves working across the PCN and the wider multidisciplinary teams (MDT) and is a pivotal role in ensuring all patients receive the best possible care and services available. The Care Coordinator role will support the Frailty Team in the coordination and delivery of key PCN priorities including the coordination of the Frailty cohort of patients, patients living within Care Homes and within the community. The role will include responsibilities for the co-ordination of the patients journey through Primary Care and the seamless transfer of care across the system.

Main duties of the job

Excellent communication, organisational and administration skills are key to the success of the role. The Care Coordinator will: provide coordination and navigation for people and their carers across health and care services, alongside Social Prescribing link workers and other primary care roles; lead the coordination and navigation of care for a defined frail population across the PCN proactively supporting and managing patients to remain within their own homes wherever possible working closely with the wider community team; focus upon patients and provide support necessary fulfil effective personalised care requirements; liaise with multi agencies to coordinate pathways of care for patients; provide coordination and navigation for people and their carers across health and care services.

Overview of your organisation

Kingfisher Primary Care Network (PCN) is a collaboration between 5 GP practices across 6 sites in Redditch Town with a shared population of 58,955. Kingfisher PCN has a strategic ambition to introduce a Community Health Hub in the medium term in order to innovate general practice locally and build a sustainable model for general practice for the future. Kingfisher PCN practices have a mature relationship and a proven track record of effectively working together over many years. The opportunity to introduce additional roles to complement the existing primary care workforce has been embraced and recent recruitment has resulted in appointments to the Additional Roles Team including Clinical Pharmacist, FCPs and Care Coordinator's alongside already established Social Prescribers.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: From 12.86 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 37 per week

Benefits:

Company pension
Work Location: In person