Care Co-ordinator

We are looking to recruit a Care Co-ordinator to work within our Primary Care network multi-disciplinary healthcare team, providing 1:1 personalised support to people who are referred. This will be an engaging and diverse role, working alongside Social Prescribing Link workers, and collaborating with a wider team of health and Social care professionals. The role is to deliver a Care Coordinating Service to patients registered in Coventry. This will be working with patients to develop relationships to improve their health and wellbeing, utilizing Health and Social care services and opportunities in the community. This is a varied and interesting role in a developing area and would suit someone who has worked in either the community or health and social care services and would like a new challenge in a diverse working environment, involving a number of stakeholders and can manage their own caseload. The post empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing by giving time to focus on what matters to me. The Care Co-ordinator will build trusting relationships with people using a person-centred approach and work within the Personalised Care Team.

• THIS ROLE REQUIRES YOU TO HOLD A DRIVING LICENCE AND HAVE ACCESS TO A VEHICLE PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU MEET THIS CRITERIA, Liaise with clinicians and patients ensuring well-formed relationships between a wide range of agencies to support the health and wellbeing of patients, including managing a caseload.
Follow a clinicians assessment track patients health and wellbeing needs and find suitable services and other opportunities available in the community. Liaise with patients to book patients into services provided by the practice as well as in community, signposting/referring where appropriate and what matters to the person. Some of the typical services referred to are; Myton Clinics Carers Trust Arden Memory Clinic Palliative services Adult Social Care Mental Health and Learning Disability In addition there may be a need to follow up on patients not engaging with care and linking in with other services such as healthy lifestyles, stop smoking, Talking therapies services and any others as required Provide personalized support to patients, their families and carers to take control of their health and wellbeing, live independently, improve their health outcomes and maintain a healthy lifestyle signpost/refer to appropriate appointments with our clinical team or in the community. Develop trusting relationships between the organisation and the patient by giving people time and focus on what matters to them. Attend regular Multi-disciplinary meetings and bring complex patients for discussion and help look for solutions, including weekly triage meetings with other personalized care roles.

Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance is committed to supporting and delivering high-quality primary care services to the local population and strengthening and developing general practices. Formed in June 2014, we are a private company limited by shares, and as such, we are wholly owned by the practices within our Federation. 94 percent of general practices in Coventry and 45 percent of practices in Rugby, covering a total population of around 450,000. We continue to provide a range of high quality, accessible and responsive services, whilst always looking forward to find new ways to support general practice and our local population. Our aim is to strengthen primary care for a stronger NHS. Our work plan continues to evolve to support local and national local policy developments, as well as local practice, Network and partner needs in terms of Supporting, Innovating, Delivering and Educating.