CVD Care Coordinator (22.5hours)
| Posting date: | 21 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £13.00 to £13.84 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £13.00 - £13.84 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2025 |
| Location: | Scunthorpe, DN15 9TA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0601-25-0004 |
Summary
You will work closely with the practice to support patients and carers to understand and manage their conditions and ensuring their changing needs are addressed in a holistic manner. The successful candidate will be based within the North Care Network. They will be caring, dedicated, reliable and enjoy working with a wide range of people. They will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong organisational and time management skills. They will be highly motivated and proactive with a flexible attitude and be keen to work and learn as part of a team committed to providing people, their families, and carers with high quality support. As well as providing care coordination the role will involve hands on patient care such as blood pressure checking, phlebotomy, ECG taking and INR measurement. Undertake NHS health checks and record findings in clinical systems, working to necessary protocols and policies, assessment of risk, communication of results and onward referral to services such as: Healthy Lifestyles, Weight Management, NL Active Exercise Programme, Smoking Cessation, Drugs and Alcohol Services and Locality Hubs etc. Support the Senior Administrator and Business Support Administrator with implementation of the requirements as set out in the network IIF indicators. Work with people, their families, and carers to improve their understanding of the patients condition and support them to develop and review personalised care and support plans to manage their needs and achieve better healthcare outcomes. Coordination of ambulatory and home BP monitoring services. This will include identifying patients, loaning of the equipment with delivery of appropriate patient training, adding results to patient records, organising follow up onward referrals as appropriate according to protocols. Help people to 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. Support people to understand their level of knowledge, skills, and confidence when engaging with their health and wellbeing, including through the use of the Patient Activation Measure. Assist people to access self-management education courses, peer support or interventions that support them in their health and wellbeing and increase their Activation level. Provide coordination and navigation for people and their carers across health and care services, working closely with social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches, and other primary care professionals; helping to ensure patients receive a joined-up service and the most appropriate support. Work collaboratively with GPs and other primary care professionals within the PCN to proactively identify and manage a caseload, which may include patients with long-term health conditions, and where appropriate, refer to other health professionals within the PCN. Work with people, their families, carers, and healthcare team members to encourage effective self-management of health conditions. Maintain records of referrals and interventions to enable monitoring and evaluation of the service This Job Description will be subject to development and review