Care Coordinator - ehub in London inLondon PUBLISHED THU 20 JUN 2024 Jump to job information section

Job Title: Care Coordinator

Salary: £30,279 per annum

per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Responsible to: Senior Care Coordinator

Key Relationships: General Practice, Healthshare LTD, One Westminster, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL), Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH).

BACKGROUND

Healthcare Central London is the GP Federation covering the Central London CCG area. The organisation supports 33 General Practices and 4 Primary Care Networks (PCNs). We operate a number of NHS contracts including a Care Navigation Service, a Clinical Pharmacy Service, a Community Dermatology Service, and Partnership in Practice (PiP) - an out-of-hospitals provision which is sub-contracted to its 33 General Practice members.

Our vision is to be recognised as a leading GP provider network, run by clinicians for the benefit of our local population. We will achieve this by working with patients and partners to ensure that general practice remains sustainable and independent.

Our approach is to deliver exceptional assistance to our 34 General Practice members and to operate our NHS contracts in a manner that supports our Practices and their patients by providing services economically, locally, promptly, and in a familiar environment.

Now in our 13th year we look forward to our continued growth and to contributing a voice for General Practice in the planned Integrated Care System (ICS).

JOB ROLE

Care Coordinators play an important role within a PCN to proactively work with people, including the frail/elderly and those with long-term conditions, to provide coordination and navigation of care and support across health and care services.

Care Coordinators will be based within our Single Point of Access (SPA) and the unique opportunity work across our services on a rotational basis. Our SPA covers the e-Hub, Secondary Care Referrals, Community Dermatology and Enhanced Cardiology Services. We provide a high quality service to all our patients and practices and believe in exceptional patient care.

There will be innovative and exciting services launching which will change the way we provide services to our patients. An example of this is the Virtual Group Consultation (VGC) which will support diabetic patients with managing their conditions through peer support. This role will play a central role on the delivery of such services.

Key Tasks And Responsibilities

 To provide secondary care referral management and appointment booking for practices signed up to the service. Any practices that have opted out, referrals will need to be rejected back with advice on referral pathway for the practice

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 To provide referral management and appointment booking for community based services including Dermatology and Cardiology.

 To develop and maintain a knowledge of service pathways and criteria.

 To enable the impact of the service to be assessed and to inform the improvement of other local services by keeping electronic records of all referrals and interventions.

 To provide admin support for incoming eConsults

 To manage relevant admin related eConsults, including contacting the patient

 To redirected other eConsults to the relevant team

 To contact patients by SMS, telephone, email to update them on their eConsult

 To enable the impact of the service to be assessed and to inform the improvement of other the services by keeping accurate electronic records

 Reviewing and processing referrals received from GP Practices

 Actively call patients with a view to assisting them through the process and making their onward appointments into community or secondary care service providers.

 Ensure sufficient phone cover is available for all services and also monitor service inboxes during core office hours, responding to any queries professionally providing helpful information

 Booking of appointments for appropriate referrals

 Dealing appropriately with any booking or change request calls (or other correspondence), i.e. alteration of appointment booking or change of demographic details, this will also include supporting patients with booking their secondary care appointments online.

 Maintain records of all activities carried out, i.e. outbound calls, calls received, archiving any received correspondence.

 Provide clinical and non-clinical information in appropriate chronological templates to other services. Regarding both onward referrals to secondary care services to allow patients to make an informed choice regarding their service provider.

 Actively answer telephone calls and deal with queries in a sensitive and timely way liaising with clinical or managerial staff as is appropriate.

 Ensure any messages/voicemails are dealt with appropriately and in a timely way.

 Monitor and action tasks within SystmOne

 Provide support with crosschecks and service reports; distribute any incoming mail or faxes as appropriate.

 Workflow eConsults into patient records on SystmOne across a number of GP Practices

 Reviewing and processing eConsults received across a number of GP Practices

 Actively call patients to resolve relevant admin requests

 Redirect eConsults to relevant team (registered practice, Clinical Pharmacist, etc.)

 Contacting patients by SMS, phone, email, to update them on their eConsult

 Maintain records of all activities carried out, i.e. eConsults received, coding of outcome and other relevant fields in the SystmOne template.

 To maintain and develop effective communication across the team

 Proactively engage in development of the eHub

 Other Administrative Tasks As Required

 Any other administrative tasks as required

 Provide administrative support to Healthcare Central London.

 Take part in Healthcare Central London events and activities where applicable, and in consultation with their line manager.

Requirements

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Skills and Knowledge

 Computer literate, able to use email, the internet and web searches as standard applications and databases

 Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

 Numerate