Job summary
- Main area
- Continuing Health Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 116-6542773
- Employer
- NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bridge House
- Town
- Sleaford
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Continuing Health Care Nurse Assessor
NHS AfC: Band 5
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board has been established to support the wider health and social care needs of the population of Lincolnshire and will focus on to deliver its agreed vision of ‘Better Lives for the people of Lincolnshire’.
This includes:
- Improving the health of children and young people.
- Supporting people to stay well and independent.
- Acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions.
- Supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues.
- Caring for those with multiple needs as populations age.
- Getting the best from collective resources so people get care as quickly as possible.
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Are you a registered nurse or Allied Health professional with a current registration?
Would you like to work in a flexible and friendly team working core hours Monday to Friday?
We do not work ANY Bank holidays within the year and YES this does include Christmas!
If you are interested by the above alone, then feel free to call me and have a chat, or come and see what we do to see if this job is for you!
The Base will be Sleaford however we try and keep you within Locality and after the Assessment you can either work from the office or work from Home. Team Meetings are held in the office once a month, and we would look for you to come into the office if your assessment for the day is cancelled.
NHS Lincolnshire ICB is seeking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic and forward thinking clinical assessor to work as part of our Continuing Health Care team. The successful candidate will be working across our varied and diverse population. We are recruiting to fill a post in the East of the County. You need to be able to work autonomously and collaboratively within a multi-agency environment and dynamic skill-mixed team.
If you are a self-motivated and collaborative professional, who possesses excellent communication skills, has an eye for detail and support the philosophy for delivering high quality services to people, this would be the ideal opportunity for you.
Main duties of the job
- To lead and contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments using the Decision Support Tool in line with the National Framework and Standard Operating Procedures.
- To review people in receipt of Continuing Healthcare or Funded Nursing Care in accordance with the Framework.
- To ensure that patients with more complex needs are referred to or discussed with the relevant Case Manager for further assessment and planning of care needs.
- To ensure Continuing Healthcare guidance is followed and that services are delivered to maximise patient safety.
- Developing strong working relationships with partner agencies including acute hospital trusts, local authorities, the independent sector, neighbourhood teams and others.
Working for our organisation
NHS ICB is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. Individuals are at the heart of everything we do and it’s important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.
In conjunction, with individuals experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme; system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.
The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB’s objectives and financial sustainability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Support individuals and their representatives to contribute to and be confident in the CHC process by encouraging their participation in a transparent and equitable process; ensure this is accurately documented as part of the assessment.
Demonstrates ability to complete documentation or enter data accurately, consistently and in a timely manner
Ensures credible evidence is documented fully to support decision making and later review of the case through audit and/or independent review
The post requires highly developed skills of assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care. Accuracy is important. Good observational skills are essential.
Responsible and accountable for the commissioning of safe care of individuals who are funded and cared for in Nursing or Residential care homes, individuals with severe and enduring mental and physical illness, rapidly deteriorating conditions which require very close monitoring and a responsive service to meet their needs. A small percentage of these individuals are placed out of county and in order to manage these care packages, travel outside of Lincolnshire may be necessary.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Up to date NMC Registration
- I.T Skills
- Experience in a clinical setting including inter-agency and Multi agency Working
- Evidence of Continued Profesional Development
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge around Continuing Health Care
- Clinical Knowledge Base in order to ensure Comprehensive Holistic assessment
- Experiencing of Managing risk and reporting
- Negotiation and Conflict Management Skills and the ability to influence in formal settings.
- Evidence of Teaching and Mentorship
- Effective Communication Skills
- Aware of Caldicott Principles
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection
- Aware of Equality and Diversity Principles
- Demonstrate the ability to Work in different settings.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sharon Vine
- Job title
- CHC Case Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522515344
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