Community Care Coordinator

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre are looking for an experienced care coordinator to join our Community Health and Support team on a part-time basis for 18 hours per week. The Community Health and Support team is part of our community teams and wider primary impact team under The Bridge PCN. The aim of the team is to support patients and their carers with health and social care needs to remain living well at home to.

• improve health and wellbeing
• prevent multiple unplanned hospital admissions
• reduce frequent use of GP services
• proactively identify unmet needs in the community

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre is based in the town of Newport Pagnell and we have further sites within the Kingfisher area and Willen areas.

We are a large training practice working across the three sites and we have our own PCN - The Bridge. Our ethos is compassionate care. Benefits include:

• NHS Pension Scheme - the NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefits scheme
• Life insurance
• All staff have access to our Wellbeing App - Wisdom with access to counselling services

If you would like to find out more information about thisrole, please see the attached job specification.

• Experience of working within healthcare, the voluntary or community sector, to support vulnerable groups.
• Familiar with local resources and services, including how to access them.
• Motivated by helping people, with care and empathy.
• Able to deliver person-centred support in a non-judgmental way.
• Experience of completing holistic person-centred care planning assessments.
• Strong listening and communication skills.

• Diploma Level 2 in Health and Social Care, or an equivalent qualification (desirable not essential).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.