PCN Care Coordinator

NHS Jobs; Peterborough; On-site; CAD 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

East of England Community Health & Care NHS Trust is seeking a care coordinator to support patients before and after clinical conversations with primary care professionals. You will work closely with GPs and other primary care staff within the PCN to identify and manage a defined patient caseload, ensuring appropriate support for patients and carers is provided and changing needs are addressed.

Emphasis on enabling local priorities and addressing health inequalities.

Responsibilities

• Support patients in preparation for or follow-up of clinical conversations with primary care professionals.
• Work with GPs and other primary care staff within the PCN to identify and manage a caseload of patients and ensure appropriate support is available for patients and carers.

Job description

Care coordinators provide extra time, capacity, and expertise to support patients in preparing for or in following-up clinical conversations they have with primary care professionals. They will work closely with the GPs and other primary care professionals within the PCN to better identify and manage a caseload of selected patients making sure that appropriate support is made available to them and their carers and ensuring that their changing needs are addressed. They focus delivery of the comprehensive model to reflect local priorities, health inequalities or population health management risk stratification, this will include support digital referral management, for example from the NHS App.

East of England Community Health & Care NHS Trust