Burnley East PCN Care Co-Ordinator - Care Home ANP Team

Job Purpose Please note that the role of a Care Coordinator is NOT a clinical role. The post holder will be responsible for the provision of wide-ranging and efficient administrative support the Burnley East Primary Care Network (PCN). Typically, this support may include the arrangement of meetings, dealing with correspondence, document management, preparing short reports, creating spreadsheets, responding to and the forwarding of e-mails and other administrative tasks such as the minute taking of PCN meetings. The post holder may from time to time be required to work from different practices within the area so will require a degree of flexibility and a range of duties that may vary as the service develops. The Care Coordinator will be part of the Primary Care Network (PCN) Administration Team responsible for supporting the care of patients registered with practices within the Burnley East PCN. This may involve coordinating the work of healthcare professionals and non-clinical staff
including 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 health and social care particularly regarding individuals with long-term conditions. An ethos of promotion of independence and partnership-working is integral to this post. Key aspects of this role will include supporting the following PCN activities:- Direct Enhanced Service (DES) - Enhanced Health in Care Homes Taking a lead in the organisation of the formal joint PCN meetings (PCN Clinical and PCN Community) Staff Introductory Flyers Regular cascading of information to GP Practices and PCN Stakeholders Population Health Management Review of the PCN generic e-mail address Support Advanced Care Planning Support Personalised Care Planning Specifically, this role will involve the co-ordination of the care Homes staff and ward rounds which are designed to improve the continuity of care by acting as a point of contact
for residents, families and professionals who visit care homes, such as MDT members and in-reach specialists. In addition they will work closely with the MDTs through supporting the identification of people in need of review, or collation of information on people requiring an MDT review in addition to providing coordination, secretarial and administrative support to the MDTs within a single or multiple PCNs. The list of duties in the job description should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. There will be other duties and requirements associated with the job and the right to update the job description from time to time to reflect changes in or to the job.