Health and Social Care Coordinator: Sponsorship Available

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled and compassionate Health and Social Care Coordinator to join our team based in Coxheath.

Working as part of our Adult Services team our Health and Social Care Coordinators support patients within each defined primary care network population with social prescribing. The patients will routinely be the top 3% Long term Condition patients with most complex needs.

We take referrals from GP’s, Complex Care Nurses, Community Nursing, Social services, Dementia nurses, Mental health nurses, Specialist nurses/physios, Therapy Leads, Acute Trust and Local Ambulance providers

About us

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

  • Diploma of higher education Foundation degree, Higher national diploma (HND) NVQ level 5 or equivalent

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Sound judgement and logical approach to complex situations, with ability to determine solutions.

Desirable

  • Understanding of NHS Community Services

SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE

Essential

  • Handling confidential and sensitive information in accordance with DPA.

Desirable

  • An understanding of the NHS current agenda and challenges

PRACTICAL/ INTELLECTUAL SKILLS

Essential

  • Excellent inter-personal skills and the ability to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of people from different backgrounds at all levels of seniority.

PRACTICAL/ INTELLECTUAL SKILLS

Essential

  • The ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision.

PRACTICAL/ INTELLECTUAL SKILLS

Essential

  • The ability to prioritise and balance a range of competing tasks to deliver to agreed timescales.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Essential

  • Ability to apply a common sense and logical approach to identify key or underlying issues in difficult situations and use initiative to solve problems.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 30 June 2024

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