PCN - Care Coordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Care Coordinator in the organisation, who must be available to work on a part time 22 hours per week practice based with flexibility when required to work across sites within PCNs. The role is advertised between 6-12 months and can be discussed during interview with the Clinical Director. This will be a fixed term contract. Practices across Waltham Forest have come to work collaboratively as Primary Care Networks (PCNs), pooling their resources and workforce to provide improved and integrated services for their patients. PCNs typically consist of 30,000-50,000 patients. Please note that we would be unable to take on any sponsorship visa's due to not having the budget or a licence., Work within our network of GP Practices to provide a central co-ordination role for patient care planning. The role will be GP facing, with the core responsibility being excellent patient care.

You will be expected to take part in MDT meetings with GP and Nurse and present.

Co-ordinate care packages for patients as identified by the GP across health, social care and mental health as appropriate, providing a single-point of access for staff & service users, actively managing patients care plan delivery

Facilitate smooth and planned discharge and handover between care settings across the health and social care system, including GP, acute, community, and be responsible for facilitating inter-agency communication and support

Identify and work with a list of named patients with the aim of encouraging independence, enabling people to remain at home, reducing unnecessary admissions to hospitals and supporting early discharge from hospital, improving the quality of care.

WF GP FedNet is a not-for-profit Federation of 36 GP Practices in Waltham Forest. We are a private limited company who provides NHS Services based in Primary Care, pooling the skills and resources of local GPs to provide large scale services as part of the local NHS Strategy to bring more services into the Community to help people stay well and at home