Care Coordinator
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £12.00 to £13.44 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £12.00 - £13.44 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS20 7QA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0356-24-0001 |
Summary
Main Responsibilities: To work with the GPs and other primary care professionals within the surgery to identify and proactively recall a selected cohort of patients to deliver personal care. For example, patients with Dementia, Cancer or Learning Disabilities who may need annual reviews of their health or medications. To work closely and in partnership with the Social Prescribing Link Workers (SPLWs) and the wider Community Services including Sirona, to explore care options for patients based on what matters to the person. To support patients to utilise decision aids in preparation for a shared decisions-making conversation and to help create single personalised care and support plans, in line with best practice. To help people manage their needs through answering queries, making and managing appointments, and ensuring that people have good quality written or verbal information to help them make choices about their care e.g annual flu or covid vaccinations. This may include supporting people to take up vaccinations, training and employment, self-management education courses and access appropriate benefits where eligible. Also to support in the delivery of contract specifications. This may include administrative tasks such as: - Inputting data around screening tests / vaccinations Running searches to identify populations who may need intervention e.g. children who require calling in for immunisations. Support and feed into the development of the MDT approach to working with our patients Becoming a contact point for patients who are: - o Complex and or frail o Frequent visitors to the GP o Recently discharged from hospital or about to be discharged o Recently attended A and E and would benefit from follow up o New patients to our list with follow up requirements Requiring active signposting to self-care services as part of on the day and minor illness approach