Population Health and Safeguarding Care Co-ordinator
| Posting date: | 05 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £27,485.00 to £30,162.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £27485.00 - £30162.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2026 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 1PN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0463-26-0004 |
Summary
Main Roles & Responsibilities: To work as a team of Care Coordinators, with the GPs and other primary care professionals within the PCN to proactively identify and support some of our most vulnerable patients who require additional input/support, including patients on our safeguarding register, those with new diagnosis of Cancer, our patients with Learning Disabilities and those high intensity service users with frequent Emergency Department attendances. Bring together all a persons identified care and support needs and what matters to them; explore the options to address these in a single personalised care and support plan created in collaboration with the patient and their family as appropriate. Assist people to access self-management education courses, peer support or interventions that support them in their health and wellbeing; explore and assist people to access personal health budgets where appropriate. Provide coordination and navigation for individuals and their carers across health and care services, working closely with social prescribing link workers and other primary care roles such as the Advanced Community Practitioners/District nurses. Raise awareness of shared decision-making and decision support tools and assist people to be more prepared to have a shared decision-making conversation. Safeguarding Aspect of the Role This role will also involve working with those on the practice safeguarding registers, both adults and children. This will involve maintaining an updated register, liaising with social services, independent domestic violence advisor, school nurses and health visitors where appropriate. This part of the role will include arranging and chairing the multidisciplinary practice safeguarding meetings involving the practice team, social workers, school nurses, health visitors and midwives. The care coordinator will also support the safeguarding lead GP in creating and submitting reports for child protection conferences. Cancer aspect of the Role In terms of our patients with cancer diagnoses, to visit these patients in their own homes or see them within the practice where appropriate to complete a holistic review of the patients health and social needs following an agreed assessment pathway. As well as contacting and offering support to patients newly diagnosed with cancer this aspect of the role is also to support improved cancer screening uptake and promote cancer awareness campaigns across the practices each month. Learning disabilities aspect of the Role To visit Learning Disabilities patients in their own homes or see them within the practice where appropriate to complete a holistic review of the patients health and social needs following an agreed assessment pathway. General roles and responsibilities Be flexible to work collaboratively and support the other care coordinator teams across the PCN with work that is required as directed by the PCN management team. Data collection and submission, filing, general admin etc. Communicating at least monthly with the PCN management team about ongoing workstreams and work completed. To help patients to manage their needs through answering queries, making, and managing appointments Assist and coordinate practices in meeting PCN DES, Locally Commissioned Service Targets and Impact and Investment Fund (IIF) targets, and practice Quality Outcomes Framework (QoF) targets. It should be noted that whilst this job description lists the main areas of responsibility, there may be additional tasks appropriately assigned by either the Clinical Director or PCN Lead Manager to this role. This list of duties is not intended to be exhaustive, but indicates the main areas of work and may be subject to change after consultation with the post-holder and the wider team to meet the changing needs of the service