Service Coordinator- Hospital at home
Greater Peterborough Network
Peterborough, PE2 8ALView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£25,000 to £26,500
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
4 October 2026
4 days leftJob description
This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact by supporting the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective patient care. As ...
- Deliver high-quality, safe, and effective patient care as part of a collaborative team.
- Promote a positive working culture by encouraging staff participation in service development and improvement.
- Manage inbound referrals and respond appropriately to patient and family queries.
- Update patient records with care plans during MDT meetings.
- Coordinate follow-ups with the clinical team and liaise with hospital teams and practices regarding patient care.
- Process patient discharges and ensure all care-related tasks are completed.
- Report incidents, complaints, and escalations to the Service Manager.
- Perform additional duties in line with NHS policies and legislative requirements as necessary.
- Ensure the provision of high quality, safe and effective patient care
- Work collaboratively as a key member of the team, promote a positive working culture, encouraging staff participation and involvement in developing and improving the service
- Actioning inbound referrals appropriately
- Dealing with queries from patients / family members
- Updating patient records during MDT meetings with plans
- Coordinating with the clinical team for any follow ups
- Liaising with the hospital teams regarding patient care
- Liaising with practices regarding patient care
- Processing discharges once patients care has ended
- Report any issues/ incidents/complaints/escalations to the Service Manager
Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post and to react to statutory, legislative and NHS policy within the scope of the role
Please note: The hospital at home services is a 8:00am- 8:00pm service, 7 days a week. This will be on rota with 1 in 2 weekend shifts.There is an additional pay up-lift of 15% for Saturdays, and 25% for Sundays/BH
Our vision: To provide the patients of Greater Peterborough with high quality, sustainable healthcare that supports them to stay well and at home for as long as possible.
We are an ambitious at scale primary care organisation with a passion for integration and innovation.
- Enhanced evening and weekend access to General Practice.
- Deliver at scale services to improve the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve.
- Home visiting and community services
- Virtual ward services.
- Advice to ambulance crews to help patients remain at home or to see the most appropriate secondary care team.
- Recruitment, induction and support of workforce through a team dedicated to supporting Primary Care Networks and hosting of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Training Hub.
Our principles
- To attract innovation and investment into primary care.
- To be dynamic always seeking out new opportunities.
- To be the primary care provider at scale -supporting delivery of services at place level that benefits our patients and members.
- To engage our clinical community identifying local clinical leaders to drive service redesign and delivery across our place.
- To face challenges head on, working collaboratively to deliver solutions.
Experience
Essential
- At least 1 year -
- Administrative skills and robust record keeping
- Ability to effectively communicate and resolve issues over the phone in a professional and courteous manner
- Coordinating and liaising with multiple stakeholders or individuals to meet specified outcomes
Desirable: - - Experience of working in Health and Social Care, or similar Public Sector roles
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Suite (including Excel, Word, Teams)
- General IT set up and systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision
- 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
- The ability to be innovative, objective as and logical in resolving problems
- The ability to prioritise and balance a range of competing tasks to deliver to agreed timescales
Desirable: - - NHS specific IT system experience (SystmOne); - - Understanding of NHS Community Services; - - Experience dealing with difficult conversations / complaints
Personal attributes and abilities
Essential
- Positive, professional, approachable and respectful attitude to others - Ability to work autonomously with little direct supervision
- Good decision-making skills with an excellent attention to detail
- Reliability
- Flexibility
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
Qualifications
Essential: - GCSE in English and Maths, or equivalent
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
23 September 2026
Last checked
28 September 2026
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