Care Home Co-ordinator (Maternity leave cover)

NHS; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Plymouth is seeking a Care Home Co-ordinator for maternity cover. The role involves supporting a busy team of clinicians providing care for elderly patients in nursing homes. Candidates should have strong organizational and communication skills along with a relevant NVQ qualification. The position entails facilitating effective communication, coordinating care pathways, and managing multidisciplinary team meetings, ensuring high-quality administrative support.

Qualifications

• Good general standard of education.
• Experience working with the general public.
• Understanding of patient and carer needs.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate communication between care homes and healthcare teams.
• Organize and administer MDT meetings and rota management.
• Coordinate home/ward rounds and clinics.

Skills

Good communication skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Data analysis

Customer service

Education

NVQ Administration level 3 or equivalent

Tools

SystmOne

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Care Home Co-ordinator (Maternity leave cover)

Are youlooking to challenge yourself and provide support and co-ordination to a small,but busy team of dedicated clinicians who provide care for our elderlypatients resident in care and nursing homes?

Anexciting opportunity has come up for a Care Co-ordinator to work as part of theBeacon Medical Group Care Home Team. This is a fixed-term appointment toprovide maternity cover for our current Care Co-ordinator.

Thesuccessful candidate will be self-motivated and able to work with minimumsupervision, planning and co-ordinating the day-to-day work of our Care HomeTeam as well as supporting Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings, rota management,liaison with outside agencies, including care homes, District Nurse Teams, runningand compiling reports and other administrative tasks.

Please Note: Ensure that your application is entirely your own original work. Applications found to be generated by artificial intelligence (AI) will not be considered.

Main duties of the job

This isa varied role requiring good administrative, communication, numeracy andliteracy skills. This is for 28.5 hours over 5 days.

The mainduties of the role are:

Facilitate effective communication between care homes, patients, members of theprimary health care team, secondary care and other associated healthcareagencies.

Provide coordination and navigation through relevant pathways, liaising withlocal support services, professionals, and wider stakeholders.

Organisation and administration of MDT meetings, rota management, meetingplanning, minute taking, review of audits and training support.

Support to minimise the demands upon the multidisciplinary team.

Planning and co-ordination of the Care Home Service home/ward rounds, andclinics and tasks. Play an active rolein capacity planning and support.

Co-ordination and support of any reports and audits for the service

Tosupport and work closely with the management and Care Home Team providing acomprehensive administrative service.

Ensure administrative and clerical duties within the practice are carried outwithin the guidelines and policies for the Care Home Service.

Beresponsible for improving healthcare outcomes by helping with enhancedservices, QOF and IIF work in the practice.

The successful candidate will have a good level of computer literacy with workingknowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel. Ideally, they will be familiar withSystmOne or equivalent.

About us

Beacon Medical Group Practice is a single practice, Primary Care Network (PCN), providing care to 43,000 patients across Plympton and the South Hams. We are a team of Partners, Salaried GPs, Paramedics, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, , Practice and specialist Nurses, HCAs, Phlebotomists, First Contact Physios, Social Prescribers, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Clinical Practitioners and Administrative support staff. Our mission is to give all our patients the right care, at the right time, in the right place. We are a forward thinking partnership always looking for opportunities to improve services for our patients. We have a good reputation for delivering good healthcare, leading at scale and innovating primary care services. This is a really exciting time to be joining us as we diversify our teams, our partnership and services.

If you join our team; you will receive support, opportunities to grow in your role, training, and work with colleagues who care about you.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description in Supporting Documents

SUMMARY OF ROLE:

Facilitate effectivecommunication between care homes, patients and members of the primary healthcare team, secondary care and other associated healthcare agencies. Provide coordination andnavigation through relevant pathways, liaising with local support services,professionals, and wider stakeholders.Organisation and administration of MDT meetings, , rota management, meetingplanning, minute taking, review of audits and training support. Support to minimise thedemands upon the multidisciplinary team.Responsible for the planning and co-ordination of the Care Home Servicehome/ward rounds and clinics and tasks relating to the co-ordination of theCare Home team services, play an active role in capacity planning and support. Co-ordination and supportof reports and audits for the service and planning required to complete theservice To support and workclosely with the management and Care Home Team providing a comprehensiveadministrative service.Ensure administrative and clerical duties within the practice are carried outwithin the guidelines and policies for the Care Home Service. Be responsible forimproving healthcare outcomes by helping with enhanced services, QOF and IIFwork in the practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of a good general standard of education.
• NVQ Administration level 3 or equivalent level of experience.
• RSA level 1.

Experience

• Experience of working with the general public.
• Experience of working in a busy environment.
• Understanding of different patients and carer groups and needs.
• Awareness of the importance of safeguarding and procedures.
• Be aware of confidentiality and data protection when handling sensitive information.
• Developing productive and effective relationships with all members of the healthcare team.
• High degree of organisation and an effective time manager.
• Completing audits.
• Data analysis and reporting.
• Experience of working in within a General Practice environment.
• Patient/customer service related training/ previous role.
• Up-to date knowledge of services and health resources in the local area.
• Knowledge of the GDPR and how this is applied in practice.
• Good working knowledge and experience of using SystemOne.

The Groups Values & other

• The candidate must demonstrate an understanding of our values.
• Full driving licence.
• Able to travel between sites when required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.