Senior CHC Nurse Assessor

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

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Job summary

This post is critical to the development and delivery of effective and high standard Continuing Healthcare provision within Haringey and Islington. The post holder will hold a caseload of highly complex individuals requiring bespoke case-management, and will be responsible for clinical case management, assessments and reviews of people known to the Continuing Healthcare team. Working autonomously, the post holder will have continuing responsibility for proactively monitoring and managing individuals on the caseload of the team, and will use clinical reasoning for the effective identification of any exacerbations or to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

The post holder will have specialist knowledge in relation to continuing healthcare, underpinned by theory and clinical expertise, and will work in partnership with other disciplines and agencies, including GPs, social services, community nursing and therapists, pharmacists, care agencies, care homes and mental health services in order to manage the care of people with highly complex needs.

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Main duties of the job

MAIN DUTIES

Clinical Advice

To work collaboratively with key stakeholders to influence and implement Continuing Healthcare characteristics and policy, reporting any gaps in provision to the CHC Operational Lead Nurse and the CCG Continuing Healthcare Lead.
To work collaboratively with district nurses, and offer advice and support to manage the care of individuals with complex health needs living in their own homes, or in residential/nursing care settings.
To ensure contemporaneous and accurate record keeping is maintain.
To be a key contributor to Islington's continuing healthcare panel in the absence of the CHC Operational Lead Nurse, ensuring continuity and equitable access to available resources to eligible service users and individuals.
To provide clinical advice to multidisciplinary teams managing the care of Islington individuals whose care is funded by continuing healthcare, including people in placements that are out of borough.

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About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Date posted

29 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum inclusive of HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

220-WHT-2526

Job locations

222 Upper Street

London

N1 1XR

Job description

Job responsibilities

Managerial Responsibilities

To deputise for the CHC Operational Lead Nurse in their absence.
To manage the junior nurse assessors in the team.
To organise meetings with multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) within the service and key staff members whenever required.
To support junior staff members with their caseloads and capacity management.
To work collaboratively with the CHC Operational Lead Nurse in managing the financial budget and control and adhering to good clinical practice at all times.
To ensure all data collection are up to date and provided in a timely manner to the CHC Operational Lead Nurse and the CCG for performance review as required.
To respond to complaints in accordance to the Trust guidelines and policies, ensuring any actions required are carried out.
To be responsible for ensuring effective multidisciplinary team working and the development of positive multi-agency working.
To ensure that all individual records are holistic, accurate, individualised and updated regularly.
To monitor all aspects of adverse events and implement changes to prevent reoccurrence and improve individual care.
To have the knowledge and experience to challenge traditional clinical practices to ensure that evidence based best practice is identified and implemented.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Managerial Responsibilities

To deputise for the CHC Operational Lead Nurse in their absence.
To manage the junior nurse assessors in the team.
To organise meetings with multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) within the service and key staff members whenever required.
To support junior staff members with their caseloads and capacity management.
To work collaboratively with the CHC Operational Lead Nurse in managing the financial budget and control and adhering to good clinical practice at all times.
To ensure all data collection are up to date and provided in a timely manner to the CHC Operational Lead Nurse and the CCG for performance review as required.
To respond to complaints in accordance to the Trust guidelines and policies, ensuring any actions required are carried out.
To be responsible for ensuring effective multidisciplinary team working and the development of positive multi-agency working.
To ensure that all individual records are holistic, accurate, individualised and updated regularly.
To monitor all aspects of adverse events and implement changes to prevent reoccurrence and improve individual care.
To have the knowledge and experience to challenge traditional clinical practices to ensure that evidence based best practice is identified and implemented.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

4 years post training experience

Communication Skills

Essential

Good written and verbal communication

Desirable

Critical thinking and good command of English

IT Skilla

Essential

Able to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Desirable

Good IT Skills and typing essential

Experience

Essential

Community Nursing/Health Assessment

Desirable

Ideally CHC experience

Managerial Skills

Essential

At lease one years experience

Desirable

Has Managerial Experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

4 years post training experience

Communication Skills

Essential

Good written and verbal communication

Desirable

Critical thinking and good command of English

IT Skilla

Essential

Able to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Desirable

Good IT Skills and typing essential

Experience

Essential

Community Nursing/Health Assessment

Desirable

Ideally CHC experience

Managerial Skills

Essential

At lease one years experience

Desirable

Has Managerial Experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).