{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nCare Coordinator with Chippenham, Corsham & Box Primary Care Network in Chippenham, Wiltshire\n\n This role is 20 hours per week. Care coordinators play an important role within a PCN to proactively identify and work with all people, including children & young adult, frail/elderly and those with long-term conditions, to provide coordination and navigation of care and support across health and care services. They work closely with GPs and practice teams, acting as a central point of contact to ensure appropriate support is made available to patients and their carers; supporting them to understand and manage their condition and ensuring their changing needs are addressed. Care coordinators review patients needs and help them access the services and support they require to understand and manage their own health and wellbeing, referring to social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches, and other professionals where appropriate. Care coordinators will work closely with the practice teams across the PCN to assist in coordinating mass vaccination programmes, ensuring appropriate patients are invited, and relevant volunteers are coordinated. There may be a need to work remotely depending on the requirements of the role. Please note that the role of a care coordinator is not a clinical role. Work with people, their families and carers to improve their understanding of the patients condition & support them to develop personalized care & support plans to manage their needs & achieve better healthcare outcomes. Help people to manage their needs through answering queries, making & managing appointments & ensuring that people have good quality written or verbal information to help them make choices about their care. Assist people to access self-management education courses, peer support, health coaching & other interventions that support them in their health & wellbeing & increase their levels of knowledge, skills & confidence in managing their health. Support people to take up training & employment & to access appropriate benefits where eligible. Provide coordination & navigation for people & their carers across health & care services, working closely with social prescribing link workers, health & wellbeing coaches & other primary care professionals. Support practices to keep care records up-to-date by identifying and updating missing or out-of-date information about the persons circumstances. About us Work with people, their families and carers to improve their understanding of the patients condition and support them to develop and review personalized care and support plans to manage their needs and achieve better healthcare outcomes. Help people to manage their needs through answering queries, making and managing appointments, and ensuring that people have good quality written or verbal information to help them make choices about their care. Assist people to access self-management education courses, peer support, health coaching and other interventions that support them in their health and wellbeing, and increase their levels of knowledge, skills and confidence in managing their health. Support people to take up training and employment, and to access appropriate benefits where eligible; for example, through referral to social prescribing link workers. Provide coordination and navigation for people and their carers across health and care services, working closely with social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches, and other primary care professionals; helping to ensure patients receive a joined-up service and the most appropriate support. Support the coordination and delivery of multidisciplinary teams with the PCN. Raise awareness of how to identify patients who may benefit from shared decision making and support PCN staff and patients to be more prepared to have shared decision-making conversations. Enable access to personalised care and support a. Take referrals for individuals or proactively identify people who could benefit from support through care coordination. b. Have a positive, empathetic and responsive conversation with the person and their family and carer(s) about their needs. c. Work towards increasing patients understanding of how to manage and develop health and wellbeing through offering advice and guidance. d. Develop an in-depth knowledge of the local health and care infrastructure and know how and when to enable people to access support and services that are right for them. e. Use tools to measure peoples levels of knowledge, skills and confidence in managing their health and to tailor support to them accordingly. f. Work with the wider PCN, MDTs, and the social prescribing service to look at how carers can support people - this could include the initial identification of carers onto the carer register g. Support people to develop and implement personalised care and support plans; h. Review and update personalised care and support plans at regular intervals; i. Undertake telephone assessments, home visits and face to face appointments. j. Ensure personalised care and support plans are communicated to the GP and any other professionals involved in the persons care and uploaded to the relevant online care records, with activity recorded using the relevant SNOMED codes. Coordinate and integrate care a. Making and managing appointments for patients, related to primary, secondary, community, local authority, statutory, and voluntary organisations b. Help people transition seamlessly between secondary and community care services, conducting follow-up appointments, and supporting people to navigate through wider the health and care system; c. Refer onwards to social prescribing link workers and health and wellbeing coaches where required; d. Regularly liaise with the range of multidisciplinary professionals and colleagues involved in the persons care, facilitating a coordinated approach and ensuring everyone is kept up to date so that any issues or concerns can be appropriately addressed and supported; e. Actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings in the PCN as and when appropriate; f. Identify when action or additional support is needed, alerting a named clinical contact in addition to relevant professionals, and highlighting any safety concerns. g. Record what interventions are used to support people, and how people are developing on their health and care journey, h. Keep accurate and up-to-date records of contacts, appropriately using GP and other records systems relevant to the role, adhering to information governance and data protection legislation; i. Work sensitively with people, their families and carers to capture key information, while tracking of the impact of care coordination on their health and wellbeing; j. Encourage people, their families and carers to provide feedback and to share their stories about the impact of care coordination on their lives; k. Record and collate information according to agreed protocols and contribute to evaluation reports required for the monitoring and quality improvement of the service. Professional development a. Work with a named point of contact for advice and support. b. Undertake continual personal and professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing the role and responsibilities, and provide evidence of learning activity as required; c. Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, equality, diversity and inclusion training and health and safety. Miscellaneous a. Establish strong working relationships with GPs and practice teams and work collaboratively with other care coordinators, social prescribing link workers and health and wellbeing coaches, supporting each other, respecting each others views and meeting regularly as a team b. Act as a champion for personalised care and shared decision making within the PCN c. Demonstrate a flexible attitude and be prepared to carry out other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time within the general character of the post or the level of responsibility of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner d. Identify opportunities and gaps in the service and provide feedback to continually improve the service and contribute to business planning e. Contribute to the development of policies and plans relating to equality, diversity and reduction of health inequalities f. Work in accordance with the practices and PCNs policies and procedures g. Contribute to the wider aims and objectives of the PCN to improve and support primary care. "}