Neighbourhood Care Coordinator - Grantham

K2 Healthcare Ltd; Grantham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local health and care organization in Grantham seeks a Neighbourhood Care Coordinator. This role involves coordinating multidisciplinary patient care, improving access to services, and facilitating engagement within the community. Successful candidates will have effective communication skills and a Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care. This position offers a unique opportunity to work towards positive changes in local patient care.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in health and care environments or equivalent.
• Able to work flexibly and provide cover as required.
• Able to write reports and manage own workload.

Responsibilities

• Support coordination of care for patients through a multidisciplinary team.
• Act as a liaison for improved patient care outcomes.
• Facilitate public engagement events and project delivery.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Teamwork

IT skills

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care

Tools

Databases

Job description

Neighbourhood Care Coordinator - Grantham

The Neighbourhood Coordinator will work with the Head of Integrated Neighbourhood Working and Senior Neighbourhood Care Coordinator, member practices and key local operational stakeholders to support coordination of care for patients through a multidisciplinary team meeting approach, stakeholder signposting and supporting the across the whole South West footprint.

Key outcomes of neighbourhood working have been identified as:

Enabling people to remain in, or close to, their own home, whenever possible

Improving pathways between services, reducing inefficiencies, fragmentation, and duplication of care

Improved communication and working relationships between individuals and providers

Improving access to, and information about services

Continuity of care

Increasing out of hospital care provision

Main duties of the job

We are looking for individuals with proven experience in health and care environments or equivalent experience and evidence of continued personal development.

You will also have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be highly motivated and positive in your approach to care delivery to ensure we maintain a high quality service delivery to our population.

Please refer to essential and desirable criteria within the application job description and person specification.

About us

Do you share the Lincolnshire Health and Care Home First principles? Do you have experience of working within health and care services and are looking for a new and exciting challenge? If so we are looking for individuals who champion local high quality integrated care and support to play a key role in positive change in our local community.

Our Neighbourhood Team Coordinator posts are an exciting new addition to our already existing model of local population based health and care. The roles will support our Primary Care Networks in the Sleaford and Grantham localities of South West Lincolnshire, being aligned to our established, integrated Neighbourhood Team.

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description attached for full information on this role

The Neighbourhood Coordinator will work with the Neighbourhood Lead and Neighbourhood Senior Coordinator, member practices and key local operational stakeholders to support coordination of care for patients through a multidisciplinary team meeting approach, stakeholder signposting and supporting the front door across the whole South West footprint.

This will involve the following:

• Act as a liaison and link between members of the Neighbourhood to enable co-ordinated patient care, and facilitate improved outcomes for service users and patients in line with their identifiedneeds by supporting the links between health, social and third sector providers.
• To support efficient use of services across all organisations and that ensure care is person- centred
• To be a central point of navigation, and resource knowledge point, where local care navigators and operational teams have identified the need for greater co-ordination/support.
• Development of Neighbourhood network
• Public engagement events
• Support delivery of projects that are identified by the Neighbourhood, working closely with the Practice Care Coordinators.
• Support delivery of projects identified by the locality member practices which are part of the General Practice Forward View (GPFV) and the Lincolnshire Sustainability and Transformational Plan (STP)

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification / experience.
• Experience in use of databases
• Understanding of service user confidentiality Advanced understanding of health and social care processes
• Advanced IT Skills
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Able to work as a team
• Able to write reports
• Able to prioritise and manage own workload
• Analytical skills and be able to interpret information and present it in a clear and concise manner
• Be willing to work flexibly and provide cover as 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.

Head of Integrated Neighbourhood Working