Continuing Health Care Nurse Assessor
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
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Job summary
- Registered Nurse RGN, RMN or RNLD or Allied Health Professional with qualification
- Significant knowledge of the CHC framework and its application
- Good knowledge of NHS and social services guidance
- Knowledge base around safeguarding children and Adults
- Clinical knowledge base in order to ensure comprehensive holistic assessment for continuing care
- A background that can demonstrate clinical experience in a healthcare setting including inter-agency and multi-agency working
- Evidence of continued professional development
Competent in IT including typing
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.
About us
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.
Date posted
02 May 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£28,407 to £34,581 a year Per Annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
116-5942162-B
Job locations
Bridge House
The Point 16 Lions Way,
Sleaford
NG34 8GG
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
Address
Bridge House
The Point 16 Lions Way,
Sleaford
NG34 8GG
Employer's website
https://lincolnshire.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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