Nurse Assessor / Case Manager

Job summary

We have a number of exciting opportunities available within the South Tyneside All Age Continuing Healthcare Team employed by North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board. The posts are open to nurses with RGN, RNLD or RMN registrations. Reporting to the All Age Continuing Care Clinical Lead Nurses, you will be part of a dedicated team working within the health and social care system. Committed to high quality patient and family experiences you will be working collaboratively alongside other partners and stakeholders to ensure individuals needs are appropriately met.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the specialist Continuing Healthcare assessments, reviews and case management of the health needs of individuals either in their own homes, residential, specialist accommodation or nursing accommodation and act as a point of contact, referral and advice, completing regular reviews for health funded individuals and ensuring compliance with NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Care National Framework Guidance (2022).

About us

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.

The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.

With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.

The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.