Health and Social Care Co-ordinator

Working closely with colleagues across Community, Acute, Social Care, and Mental Health Services, you will play a pivotal role in facilitating a range of multidisciplinary meetings and supporting a holistic, person-centred approach to care. The post offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful difference by ensuring individuals receive the right support, at the right time, from the right services.

As a Health and Social Care Co-ordinator, you will act as a key link between healthcare professionals, community services, and social care teams, promoting effective communication, collaboration, and integrated working across organisations.

The Health and Social Care Co-ordinator will play a key role within the East Dorset Hub, supporting the delivery of integrated, person-centred care across health and social care services. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, the post holder will coordinate information sharing, support communication between professionals and agencies, and help ensure patients receive timely and appropriate care.

This is a fixed term role and for those with current NHS service, the role will be offered on a secondment basis only. Please obtain permission to be released on a secondment before submitting an application.

The role will provide administrative and coordination support to multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, including arranging meetings, preparing agendas, collating information, recording actions, and monitoring agreed plans. The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues from General Practice, Community Services, Social Care, Mental Health Services, Acute Trusts, and the Voluntary Sector.

A key aspect of the role is supporting the identification and review of frail, vulnerable, and high-risk individuals. This includes assisting with interventions that promote independence, improve outcomes, reduce avoidable hospital admissions, and support proactive care planning. The post holder will maintain accurate and confidential records in line with GDPR, Information Governance standards, and organisational policies. Strong IT skills and teamwork are essential to the role.

Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.

The East Dorset Hub is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Health and Social Care Co-ordinator to join our growing team.This is an exciting and evolving role, central to bringing health, social care, and community services together to deliver seamless, coordinated care for frail and vulnerable individuals.

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to create healthier lives, empowered citizens and thriving communities.