This coordinator post sits within the Integrated Neighbourhood Teams at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. The work centres on chairing and organising regular multidisciplinary meetings and linking primary care, voluntary, social care and community providers around individual patients. The role is split across several co-location sites and may include a small caseload of complex cases, with access to a car essential. Applicants need to be registered as a nurse, mental health nurse or HCPC therapist or social worker.
What the job involves
- Chair and facilitate regular INT multidisciplinary meetings, recording outcomes and reporting activity
- Arrange and coordinate regular INT meetings, ensuring the right people attend and escalating where this does not happen
- Build working relationships with health, social and community care providers to meet individual patients' needs
- Promote the neighbourhood teams through formal and informal activity, attending provider meetings and forums
- Develop and maintain up-to-date risk profiling lists with partners and clear pathways between INT and GSF meetings
- Work autonomously to coordinate INT meetings and support members in case management, including a small caseload of complex cases
- Triage and assess patients' psychological, physical, medical and social care needs
- Produce case management and care plans, including assessment of clinical and care risk
- Embed the quality strategy within INTs and contribute to monitoring quality and practice standards
- Obtain valid consent for assessment, intervention and onward referral
- Help investigate clinical complaints in line with trust policy
- Work with partners to prevent avoidable hospital admissions in line with patient choice of place of care
What's required
Qualifications
- RGN, RMN or HCPC-registered therapist or social worker
- Evidence of recent professional development
Experience
- Working in a community services setting
- Understanding of a case management approach
- Care planning experience
- Multidisciplinary working
Skills & knowledge
- Community care legislation, and health and social care policy including Mental Capacity
- Current developments in Integrated Neighbourhood Teams
- Up-to-date clinical knowledge, including long-term conditions management and integration
- Evidence-based practice
Checks & eligibility
- Car driver with access to a vehicle
Other
- Communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Partnership, team working and building positive relationships
- Time management and reliability
- Leadership, organisational and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in Word, Excel and community patient activity systems
Nice to have
- Leadership or management qualifications
- Project management qualifications or experience
- Health promotion, public health and hospital avoidance knowledge or experience
- Case management experience
- Research awareness or evidence of research
- Quality improvement knowledge or experience
- Use of EMIS
- Patient engagement experience
What's offered
- Professional development opportunities
- Supportive working environment
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