Community Nursing Care Co-ordinator

We are looking for a Community Nursing Care Co-ordinator. As the Care Coordinator, you will have the overall responsibility for the coordination of the regular care coordination meetings and the smooth running of integrated care within the team setting. The key role of the care co-ordinator will be to schedule all meetings across all the general practices in their cluster, to manage the meeting agenda items, ensuring all new referrals are identified and information circulated to team members in advance of the meeting. They will update the service user records contemporaneously on the identified IT systems.Main duties of the job

• Coordinate and manage the administrative functions for the integrated care meetings. This will include organising and adjusting meetings and tasks on behalf of several stakeholders.
• Be the point of liaison for service users receiving care coordination and interface with all professionals involved in service users care including primary, secondary, South Central Ambulance Service, community services, carers and other relevant groups
• Coordinate the handover with other teams to facilitate safe and effective transition of care between services to provide seamless support for patients, their families and carers.
• Liaise with medical and nursing personnel in primary, secondary and specialist centres about patients and service provision related matters including statutory and voluntary providers of care
• Liaise and communicate with referrers, patients, relatives, carers, and other health and social care professionals to support and coordinate care.
• Responsibility for the co-ordination of the regular care co-ordination meetings and the smooth running of integrated care within the team setting.
• Coordinate the necessary assessments, appointments or investigations to facilitate the provision of timely care and treatment.
• To manage and priorities workload daily and deal with the competing demands of the integrated care team
  
  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
  
  Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites