Social Prescribing Team Care CoordinatorNHS
Job summary
Applicants who were considered in the previous recruitment round do not need to reapply.
The post holder is a Care Coordinator, who acts within appropriate boundaries, working primarily with the Social Prescribing Team within the Primary Care Team. The Social Prescribing Team work alongside GPs looking after patients non-clinical needs. We recognise that lots of thing affect wellbeing and not everything can be fixed by medicines. The Social Prescribing Team help patients find non-clinical support and solutions to help them feel better. The Care Coordinator provides vital support to the Social Prescribing Team by doing administration support, researching resources available across the city that patients can access.
Main duties of the job
Work alongside Social Prescribers to help manage and assist aspects of their caseload and responsibilities.
The post holder will be an important part of the Social Prescribing team, building relationships with other community providers, community services and working closely in partnership with other staff within the PCN.
Job description
Work alongside Social Prescribers to help manage and assist aspects of their caseload and responsibilities.
Play an active role (calls to patients) in data gathering for the pro-active care initiative
Research new available resources using the internet, phone and face to face visits
Maintaining the resources database
Data entry to support reporting
Manipulating our unique database to provide reporting
Managing referral allocation daily and waiting list management
Organising group session administration and patient communication
Providing support to Portsmouth Social Prescriber Team by arranging meetings, minute taking, arranging speakers and training
Managing budgets and keeping accurate records
Designing newsletters for patients and internally
General admin support for the team which can include referrals, general communication, diary management and training
The role may involve innovative project work in line with new and future opportunities that are identified by Island City Network
About us
Island City Network is an innovative, friendly and forward thinking healthcare group.We are located in the fascinating Historic Naval City of Portsmouth on the South Coast. Where we lead others follow. General Practice is changing at pace and we see this as a positive and opportunistic challenge.
Island City Network includes Island City Practice, and Derby Road Group Practice.Our combined list size is c.53,892 patients. Island City Network is proud and enthusiastic to be an inventive front runner in the new era of The Primary Care Network.