NHS Integration Coordinator in Manchester - CV-Library

The Growth Company (GC) has an exciting opportunity for an NHS Integration Coordinator to join us on the IPSPC contract throughout Manchester.

GC is a fast-growing, purpose-based social enterprise, and, as part of our mission for positive change, we deliver employment, health, and justice contracts across the North of England. Our services focus on empowering people to develop their strengths and make positive progressions in their lives.

This is an engaging opportunity that requires experience in a health-based partnership role and strong influencing and relationship development skills. The successful candidates will be integral to working with key stakeholders and partners to secure co-location within primary care services and generate referrals to the programme.

Key Responsibilities

* Responsibility for brokering and establishing relationships with the wider health services that interact with our participants, including primary care teams, NHS and other health care services, mental health teams and Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) providers to generate referrals to the programme.

* Work with key stakeholders to establish co-location which will benefit the participants and provide greater levels of cohesion between services.

* Maintain and develop relationships with targeted stakeholders, partners and community groups to drive referrals to the programme and drive engagement.

* Deliver presentations, workshops and other activities within stakeholder, partner and community groups to generate referrals for key contracts.

* Undertake project work to support the generation of referrals, including planning and delivery of events and activities to access potential participant groups.

* Record daily engagement activity on the relevant systems to provide accurate Management Information.

About you

* You must have previous knowledge of the primary health care sector, the employability sector, nationally and in the area of delivery.

* Knowledge of key stakeholders and partners in the area of delivery.

* Previous knowledge of the community & voluntary sector is essential.

* Targets and results-driven, balanced with a real people focus.

Skills Required

* Experience in integration and partnership work within the primary healthcare sector.

* The ability to build relationships with key stakeholders and partner organisations.

* Previous experience and knowledge of the primary healthcare sector is essential.

* Excellent and highly developed communication skills, capable of interacting with different-sized groups of participants with various barriers and needs.

* Strong IT skills with experience in using databases, websites, and social media.

* Able to demonstrate partner engagement at a high level.

* Project management skills including organising and planning events.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

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We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

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GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy