Care Coordinator 

Career Framework

The starting salary for Care Co-ordinators is AfC band 4.

Job Description

NHSE/I have developed a detailed job description and recruitment pack which is available on the Future NHS website. Access to the site requires user registration. Once registered, navigate to the role selection page to find a range of supporting resources.

For a brief outline of responsibilities, skills and competencies please see below*

• Proactively identify and work with a cohort of people to support their personalised care requirements.

• Bring together all of a person’s identified care and support needs and what matters to them; explore the options to address these in a single personalised care and support plan.

• Help people to manage their needs, answering their queries and supporting them to make appointments.

• Support people to take up training or employment and access appropriate benefits where eligible.

• Raise awareness of shared decision-making and decision support tools and assist people to be more prepared to have a shared decision-making conversation.

• Ensure that people have high-quality health information to help them make choices about their care.

• Assist people to access self-management education courses, peer support or interventions that support them in their health and wellbeing; explore and assist people to access personal health budgets where appropriate.

• Provide coordination and navigation for individuals and their carers across health and care services, working closely with social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches and other primary care roles.

• Support the coordination and delivery of multidisciplinary teams within PCNs.

*Adapted from the BMA’s primary care network handbook 2020/212

Support available for introducing the role

The Advanced Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) guidance 2019/20 stated that from April 2020 each PCN will be allocated an additional roles reimbursement sum, which will be based upon the PCN’s weighted population share. PCNs will be able to recruit from within the reimbursable roles as required to support delivery of the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service (DES).  

Education and training required

Where a PCN employs or engages a care coordinator under the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS), the PCN must ensure that the care coordinator:

• Is enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from appropriate training as set out by the Personalised Care Institute.

• Works closely and in partnership with the social prescribing link worker(s) or social prescribing service provider and health and wellbeing coach(es).

Care Coordinators should be familiar with the six components of the universal model for personalised care with a specific focus on:

• Support for self-management.

• Personalised care and support planning.

• Shared decision making.

• Social prescribing.

• Personal Health Budgets.

Care coordinators should also access statuary and mandatory training, including but not limited to:

• Principles of information governance, accountability and clinical governance.

• Maintenance of accurate and relevant records of agreed care and support needs.

• Identify when it is appropriate to share information with carers and do so.

• The professional and legal aspects of consent, capacity, and safeguarding.

Further information

Implementation guide: Universal Personal Care: Implementing the Comprehensive model

Update to GP contract 2020/21

DES contract specification 2021/22 – PCN requirements and entitlements