Care Coordinator - MOBY Primary Care NetworkNHS

Job summary

Please note that this role will be part-time working 25-hours a week.

The Care Coordinator will be part of the Primary Care Network (PCN) Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) who are responsible for managing the care of people registered with practices within a particular PCN. This will involve coordinating the work of healthcare professionals and non-clinical staff including volunteers involved in the care of patients registered at GP practices within the wider PCN population.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to tackling inequalities in health and social care particularly regarding individuals with long-term conditions. An ethos of promotion of independence and partnership-working is integral to this post.

A key part of the role of a care coordinator role is in the care Homes MDT: improving the continuity of care by acting as a point of contact for residents, families and professionals who visit care homes, such as MDT members and in-reach specialists.

They will support the MDT with the weekly virtual home round through identification of people in need of review, or collation of information on people requiring an MDT review in addition to providing coordination, secretarial and administrative support to the MDTs within a single or multiple PCNs.

Job description

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

Multi-Disciplinary Teams

• Overall responsibility for arranging the weekly PCN led MDT meetings (including the weekly virtual Care Home(s) MDT) and the smooth running of integrated care within the team setting. The key role of the Care Coordinator will be to schedule the weekly MDT meetings, manage the meeting agenda items; ensuring that all new referrals are identified, and information circulated to team members in advance of the meeting.
• Coordinate and manage the administrative functions of MDT meetings.
• Liaise with all clinical and non-clinical members in the MDT to ensure effective MDT function.
• Take minutes of MDT meetings and disseminate; chase progress against actions identified in these meetings and ensure follow up where necessary.
• Manage reporting required and associated within the DES specifications for required services.

Please see the attached job description/person specification for full details.

About us

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients.

We are currently a GP partnership of 30 practices with 38 sites, serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shropshire.

The partnership offers a shared administrative and management structure, cutting down the time doctors have to spend on admin. It opens up economies of scale to get best value from budgets and can access new funding streams that are only available to large GP organisations. It has the resources to develop innovative services and effective partnerships with local hospitals and care services.