Care Coordinator - MOBY PCN

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., 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.

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 29 practices with 38 surgeries. 110 GP partners in Our Health Partnership serving around 210,000 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. It has the resources to develop innovative services and effective partnerships with local hospitals and care services. And it can access new funding streams that are only available to large GP organisations.

Please note that our head office is based in Cotteridge, but this role will be based across the practices listed above.