Overview
South & West Herefordshire Primary Care Network is looking for a Care Coordinator to join our Health & Wellbeing Team. The position will work with our Frailty and Neighbourhood Health teams to support the PCN in offering access to proactive and reactive personalised care and support, with a particular focus on supporting those patients at highest risk of suffering from health inequalities.
Responsibilities
* To work closely with the PCN and practice teams to identify and work with a cohort of people to support their personalised care requirements, using any available decision support tools.
* To act as the primary point of liaison for the PCNs multi-disciplinary team meetings, capturing action steps at all meetings, and ensuring that all agreed activity is completed.
* To contact patients identified for outreach to arrange for appointments and to promote healthy lifestyle choices, such as smoking cessation and health checks.
* To support the members of the Frailty and Neighbourhood Health teams with outreach to identified cohorts of patients.
About Taurus Healthcare
Taurus Healthcare was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 185,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.
Diversity & Benefits
At Taurus Healthcare we strive to create a diverse, inclusive workplace, and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds including those from Military Veterans and family members of serving personnel. Taurus Healthcare offers many employee benefits, such as: access to a generous NHS pension scheme with 20.68% employer contribution; 33 to 38 days annual leave entitlement, including bank holidays, depending on service (pro rata for part-time staff); access to an extensive Employee Benefits Programme - Vivup - offering 24/7 counselling services; salary sacrifice scheme for cars and bikes; access to a wide range of discounts from national retailers; access to the Blue Light extensive discount scheme.
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