Young Persons Care Coordinator

Help young people to manage

• their health and wellbeing needs, answering their queries, signposting and
• supporting them to access a variety of services that will help them.
• Work as part of the Social
• Prescribing Team to provide personalised support and build positive
• relationships with young patients and their family.

Coordinate with other

services and partners to plan and organise community events/services which

benefit our patients such as Wellbeing Drop-ins and health events.

Ensure that young people

have good quality information about a wide variety of available support options

to help them make choices about their care.

Manage and plan own

workload working with staff, partners and stakeholders to develop and support

PCN/Practice projects which improve health and wellbeing.

Assist the Social

Prescribing Team by triaging referrals to appropriate support within the team

such as the internal safeguarding team

Attend safeguarding

meetings where relevant or necessary and assisting the Practices safeguarding

with ad hoc duties such as covering the safeguarding emails and internal tasks

when safeguarding staff are not available.

Support Care Leavers

and Young Carers by signposting to services that would help them.

Support our NEET

patients (Not in Education, Employment or Training) with activities that help

them such as CV writing, interview techniques and job searching.

Ability to identify

risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals and recognise the

limits of their expertise which necessitate escalation/onward referral.

Assist patients to

access self-management education courses, peer support or interventions that

support them in their health and wellbeing and increase their activation level.