Job description

Our Health and Social Care Coordinator Team currently consists of 5 members and we are looking for someone new to join our team who shares our values and patient centred approach.

Our team deal with incoming referrals across the Canterbury locality and surrounding coastal areas. We are responsible for responsible for assessing basic equipment needs, signposting patients to the most appropriate services when they have more complex needs and keeping the inter-professional team updated.

This is a role with joint accountability to Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust and Kent County Council, and you will need to demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to working in a dynamic environment. You will need to be an expert communicator across services and a leader in information sharing.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that patients are referred on to the most appropriate health, social and/or voluntary organisations in a timely manner. A telephone call or face to face assessment in the patient’s home environment may be required to ascertain the needs of the patient.

You will provide a single point of contact for GP’s and assist them in improving coordination of care. You will coordinate and attend inter-professional meetings, providing appropriate feedback and develop effective working relationships with integrated short term and practice linked teams, GP practices and other agencies to ensure that our patients receive a consistent, integrated response.

Our Health and Social Care Coordinators are expected to be kind and responsive, professional and informative and to contribute to the quality of our services by demonstrating the behaviours detailed in the Trust ‘CARE Values into action Framework’:

Additional Working Pattern: 7.5 hours each day Monday to Friday

We have a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients who are recovering from illness, in need of rehabilitation, or extra support to get them home. We are one of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, and we are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC.

To deliver excellent local services and improve the health of our communities we need outstanding people who share our values (CARE):

• Compassionate
• Aspirational
• Responsive
• Excellent

Working for KCHFT won’t mean sacrificing family, friends or interests. Join us and work flexibly, in a way that suits you and your commitments outside work.

Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Ourcareer pathwayswill help you achieve your aspirations.

KCHFT is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, as we know that this leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities and are treated fairly.

KCHFT has signed up to be a real UK living wage employer. This means from 1 April 2022, the minimum salary we will pay is £9.90 per hour (excluding apprentices).

The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate that is voluntarily paid by more than 7,000 UK businesses that believe their staff deserve a wage which meets every day needs – like the weekly shop, or a surprise trip to the dentist.

Making a commitment to paying the real UK Living Wage is in alignment with our values into action approach.

Find out more about the community differencehere.

The attached job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.

All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Interviews are due to take place virtually on the 20th December 2022.

Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity

Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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