Overview
The purpose of this role is to work as a Roving Health Care Assistant, providing quality clinical and administrative support in an efficient manner to patients in a residential, care home or local setting, under the direction of the Medical Director.
Responsibilities
* Qualified Health Care Assistant to travel across different boroughs
* To provide a professional service to our multilingual diverse practice population using available resources to aid effective communication
* Work closely with GP/PCN Care Coordinators / GP Assistants to identify patients who have been lost to follow up, and are not being served by the current diabetes service or SMI register. This includes patients who are of working age, LD, vulnerable, housebound, complex care requiring MDT approach, language barriers, concurrent mental health problems etc
* Write back/discharge to GP, unless updating EMIS directly
* Liaise with participating practices to book patients for reviews
* Review patient goals
* Complete appropriate onward referrals e.g., to foot health, structured education, weight management programmes etc.
* Provide lifestyle advice including smoking cessation, weight management, diet and exercise
* Support patients in ongoing referrals/signposting to other services e.g., dietitian service, gym, walking groups etc
* Consider the mental health and wellbeing of patients and refer on to social prescribers/ wellbeing coaches/ Talking Therapies as appropriate
* Work with social prescribers, care navigators, Diabetes UK and other health and social care professionals
* Chaperoning duties
* Undertake other clinical activities
About WF GP FedNet
WF GP FedNet is a not-for-profit Federation of the 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
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