30 hours the post includes weekend and bank holiday cover as part of rota.
Salary will be £24,071 - £25,674 pa, pro rata.
We are pleased to announce Discharge to Assess has an exciting opportunity within our Business and Administration Team for a band 3 Referral Co-ordinator. This role is key in helping us to continue to provide and develop a responsive service in supporting complex discharges into Home First or Bedded pathways.
We are looking for a flexible individual who meets the essential criteria in the job description. Our Referral Co-ordinator needs to bring enthusiasm and show aptitude for change.
This employment opportunity will provide experience working collaboratively with key partner organisations and clinicians within a multi-professional team.
Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Main duties of the job
The DTA team is a multi-professional team with a range of skills and capabilities from both health and social care backgrounds. DTA pathways offer opportunities for people following acute episodes of illness to have their assessments and/or a period of intermediate care undertaken outside of hospital. The aim of the team is to work in a personalised way, enabling and empowering people to self-manage their needs. The team respond in crisis/rapid situations, providing assessment and interventions with the aim of enabling people to remain in their own homes during their recovery.
The team accepts referrals predominantly from University Hospital Plymouth and the Local Care Centre. People referred to the team have a wide variety of health and/or social care needs.
The post holder will:
1. Liaise with a wide range of services/agencies both internal and external to the organisation, working in partnership to resource and organise actions to meet the desired outcome for individual people, confirming plans and implementation with the relevant Responder and booking reviews.
2. Deliver an effective and competent level of administrative support and consistently deliver a client-focused service which promotes good customer service and effective working relationships.
3. Be responsible for providing daily administrative support in the allocated service area ensuring business priorities are met, for example: maintaining records, minute taking, data inputting.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we are guided by our values: kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability while empowering staff and those we serve.
We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.
We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.
Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions, and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.
Job responsibilities
Management of service:
1. To receive referral information predominantly from UHP or LCC, acting as the first point of enquiry, and booking and monitoring referrals into the service.
2. Share information with those who are required in the implementation of the plan; this may include reablement therapy services, long term conditions nurses, specialist nurses, etc.
3. Completing and sending referrals for planned resources as appropriate.
4. Providing good quality advice and information to both customers and professionals within own limitations appropriately.
5. Complete administrative activities associated with implementing the customer plan; this will include documentation of all customer/service-related contacts.
6. Ensure that all components of the customer plan are implemented as requested, i.e., monitor actions and ensure they have been completed and are delivering the required responses.
7. To raise any issues that affect the implementation of the plan to the original Responder or Team Leader.
8. To action any alternative options as discussed with the Responder or Team Leader.
9. Maintain accurate up-to-date patient records.
10. To collect and enter statistical data relevant to the service in line with Livewell Southwest and DTA policies and procedures, including audits.
11. Support the management team to ensure that internal and external communication systems are in place.
12. Respond to telephone, email, and written queries on behalf of the service, including call handling in conjunction with the line manager.
13. Maximise the use of electronic systems to enable effective management of the service area such as Microsoft Office and patient record systems.
14. Ensure that all office support services, e.g., post, fax, filing, photocopying, are delivered in a timely manner.
15. Be compliant with the Data Protection and record management policies and procedures, particularly regarding confidentiality and safeguarding issues.
Communication:
1. On a daily basis, communicate relevant information to a variety of services/agencies which will include; GPs, specialist nurses, care agencies, customers, families/carers, voluntary agencies, and others.
2. Communication may take a variety of forms, i.e., telephone, e-mail, face to face; teams, to ensure that the appropriate medium is used, and information is provided in a confidential, professional, and appropriate manner.
3. Ensure all communication complies with organisational and national policies and procedures.
4. To remain flexible and responsive to urgent requests to ensure the provision of an efficient and effective service.
5. Maintain accurate up-to-date patient records.
6. To collect and enter statistical data relevant to the service in line with Livewell Southwest and department policy and procedure.
Organisational:
1. To manage and prioritise workload while ensuring responses to deadlines are met in an environment where the workload is essentially predictable.
2. To ensure recording, completion, and maintenance of accurate and up-to-date documentation on required/appropriate systems, i.e., Care First 6, iPM, and ePEX in accordance with national and organisational legislation, policies, and procedures.
3. Report any data/telephony/system faults and queries.
4. To take a flexible approach in supporting the work of the team/group.
5. To collect and enter statistical data relevant to the work in line with organisational and team policies and procedures.
6. To be aware of and implement the organisation's policies and procedures, including health and safety; the prompt recording of any accident, incident, or other untoward event involving self, customers, or other staff, taking reasonable care for personal health and safety and adhering to organisational policies.
7. To keep updated on policy changes and developments within the organisation and implement relevant policies, protocols, and guidelines.
Clinical:
1. To seek advice and supervision from staff within the team as necessary to ensure appropriate actioning of customer plans.
2. To ensure that individual customers, their relatives, and carers are fully informed of and consent to the proposed plan. Due to the diverse and complex nature of the customer group, this requires the ability to communicate complex information and to meet a range of levels in understanding and to overcome such barriers as hearing loss, cognitive impairment, dysphasia, pain, fear, social, and cultural differences.
3. To provide planned and spontaneous advice and instruction on specific elements of the customer plan to relatives, carers, and other agencies involved in the customer's care to ensure consistency of approach.
4. To work jointly with other health and social care colleagues and services to ensure customers' identified rehabilitation and care needs are met.
5. To liaise with the group on the assessment for, and ordering of equipment and minor adaptations in line with organisational and departmental policies and procedures.
6. To maintain accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date customer records in line with organisational and team policies and procedures.
7. To actively participate in own development and identify personal development and training needs.
8. To undertake supervision in line with the organisation's supervision policies.
9. To participate in the organisation's yearly staff appraisal in line with policies, including the formulation of Personal Development Plans.
10. To attend mandatory and relevant training.
11. To contribute to the development of the role profile.
12. To support new team members of all disciplines.
13. Demonstrate own activities to new or less experienced employees.
14. To process and pass for payment all relevant invoices in a timely manner in accordance with business processes, with the support of the line manager.
15. Monitor stock, e.g., stationery, and order supplies and equipment as required within the business area.
16. Undertake surveys or audits as directed.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to vocational qualification level 3 in an administrative-related subject or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous experience and knowledge.
* Minimum level 2 Literacy and Numeracy.
* Diploma level health and social care / customer services.
Knowledge
* Ability to use a range of software applications including Word and Excel.
* Understanding of general office working procedures.
* Understanding of confidentiality & data protection act.
* Able to build effective working relationships with customers and colleagues/staff.
* Ability to use business applications and patient record systems, i.e., CF6, Systmone.
* Understanding of MDT working.
Experience
* Evidence of decision making and resolving work issues.
* Substantial experience of working in an administrative environment using computerised data systems.
* Experience of working in a health or social care environment.
* Experience working in a referral management setting.
* Proven relevant experience of working with vulnerable and older people.
Other requirements
* Able to work flexibly to support the team and system demands.
Skills
* Good writing, typing, data entry, and telephone skills ensuring accuracy.
* Ability to communicate verbally and in writing to a good level (face to face and over the telephone).
* Ability to prioritise own workload.
* Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
* Ability to use initiative, organising own workload to set deadlines within the scope of the role.
* Organised, efficient, and accurate.
* Flexible and adaptable, willing to learn new skills.
* Able to analyse problems and initiate appropriate solutions effectively.
* Able to apply tact and sensitivity to establish trust and support.
* Ability to produce reports in a variety of formats.
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