Care Coordinator - Northfield, Quinton and Harborne PCN

Care Coordinator - Northfield, Quinton and Harborne PCN

The Care Coordinator will be part of the Primary Care Network(PCN) Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) who are responsible for managing the careof people registered with practices within a particular PCN. This will involvecoordinating the work of healthcare professionals and non-clinical staffincluding volunteers involved in the care of patients registered at GP practices within the wider PCN population.

The post holder will contribute to tackling inequalities in healthand social care particularly regarding individuals with long-term conditions.

An ethos of promotion of independence and partnership-working is integral to drivetrain this post.

A key part of the role of a care coordinator role is in the care Homes MDT: improving the continuity of care by acting as a point of contact for residents, families and professionals who visit carehomes, such as MDT members and in-reach specialists.

They will support the MDT with the weeklyvirtual home round through identification of people in need of review, orcollation of information on people requiring an MDT review in addition to providing coordination, secretarial and administrative support to the MDTswithin a single or multiple PCNs.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for further information about this post.

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefitpatients.

Weare currently a GP partnership of 29 practices with 38 surgeries. 110 GPpartners in Our Health Partnership serving around
210,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Shropshire.

Thepartnership offers a shared administrative and management structure, cuttingdown the time doctors have to spend on admin. It opens up economies of scale toget best value from budgets. It has the resources to develop innovative services and effective partnerships with local hospitals and care services. Andit can access new funding streams that are only available to large GPorganisations.

Multi-Disciplinary Teams

• Overall responsibility for arranging the weekly PCN led MDTmeetês (including the weekly virtual Care Home(s) MDT) and the smooth runningof integrated care within the team setting. The key role of the Care Coordinator will be to schedule the weekly MDT meetings, manage the meeting agenda items; ensuring that all new referrals are identified, and informationcirculated to team members in advance of the meeting.
• Coordinate and manage the administrative functions of MDTmeetings.
  
  Liaise with all clinical and non-clinical members in the MDT toensure effective MDT function.
• Take minutes of MDT meetings and disseminate; chase progress against actions identified in these meetings and ensure follow up where necessary.
• Manage reporting required and associated within the DESspecifications for required services.

Please see attached job description/person specification for full details.

• ECDL or equivalent
• Ongoing internal and external training to keep up to date with changes/ developments
• Long term conditions training
• Welfare Rights properties training

• Experience in use of databases
• Experience of administrative duties
• Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of working with confidential information and an understanding of service user confidentiality
• Working in a multi-disciplinary setting where influence and negotiation is required
• Knowledge/familiarity with medical terminology
• Working in a busy and demanding environment whilst delivering in a timely manner
• Minimum of 2 years experience of working withbia healthcare professionals and or previous};
• Vulnerable adults awareness
• Experience of care of the elderly
• Understanding of current issues facing the NHS
• Knowledge of social services structures Training in continuing care criteria
• Understanding of health and social care processes

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and judgement skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret information and present results in a clear and concise manner
• Excellent…