CHC Nurse Assessor x 2

Job summary

Organisational context

Lewisham has one full time part time (18.75 hours per week) vacancy for a nurse to work in the Continuing Healthcare team to implement the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare & NHS Funded Nursing Care.

You must be a Registered General or Mental Health Nurse with community experience in Older People's Services, be competent and knowledgeable in all aspects of the NHS Framework for Continuing Healthcare Funding.

As a Continuing Healthcare Nurse you will need to be able to write clear recommendations / reports regarding a patient's eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare. You will need to have highly developed written skills. You will also need highly developed verbal communication skills as you will be required to explain complex and often contentious /sensitive information including the outcomes of NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments and future care needs to patients and/or their families, and have knowledge of the appeals process. You will conduct meetings with families and patients to review CHC and FNC eligibility. You will arrange and actively participate in CHC assessments with other members of the MDT and type up reports for panel and work in collaboration with the Local Authority. You will conduct reviews on a 3 monthly and yearly basis and write reports around findings.

You will need a current clean driving licence.

For an informal discussion please contact Peter Ebenezer Head of Continuing HealthCare

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for those patients who meet the eligibility criteria for NHS Continuing Healthcare. This will include the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, evaluation and reviews of programmes of care.

The post holder will work as part of the continuing care team to develop the role and to contribute to the development and implementation of a robust NHS continuing healthcare process and assessment for NHS funded care.

Continuing Healthcare patients will have complex and/or intense health care needs and/or unstable fluctuating conditions, and/or unpredictable, and/or progressively/rapidly deteriorating; aggressive disinhibited behaviour which is difficult to control; unstable symptom control or severe continuous symptoms or a very high level of medical, nursing or therapy intervention with monitoring from one or more health professionals and/or their health needs will require a high level of professional time.

As you may be aware NHS Continuing Healthcare is very contentious and therefore you will need to be assertive in order to deal with challenges from patient's relatives and other professionals.

About us

The South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations resident in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Greenwich - our Places.

Our partnership brings together six local authorities, over 200 general practices (operating within 35 Primary Care Networks), Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS FT, King's College Hospital NHS FT, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, South London and the Maudsley Mental Health FT and Oxleas FT. Importantly, the ICS seeks to be connected to the communities we serve (circa 1.92m residents) and work with the widest possible range of community, voluntary and third sector groups and organisations in each borough. The reach of our NHS provider portfolios extends beyond the borders of the ICS, across London, the south of England and nationally for some services.

Our vision for the ICS is a highly performing, sustainable system that looks after its staff, responds to its communities and takes action to reduce the inequalities they experience. As a new organisation we have developed a system development planhttps://www.ourhealthiersel.nhs.uk/SDP-8-November-2021.pdfthat outlines the way in which we seek to operate and the steps we will take to realise the full potential of our partnership.