Job summary
- Main area
- Registered Learning Disability Nurse
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 877-CSU-6172969-A
- Employer
- NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cardinal Square
- Town
- Derbyshire
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Learning Disability Continuing Health Care Nurse Assessor
Band 5
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for career development and an ideal chance to enhance and utilise your clinical skills. You will need to be a highly motivated individual looking for a new challenge and should enjoy coordinating and communicating with a wide range of people. The candidate should have knowledge of the NHS Framework for Continuing Healthcare.
The successful candidate will provide specialist assessment and review for adults and older people presenting with long-term care needs who may be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS-funded nursing care and jointly funded packages of care in line with the NHS Framework for Continuing Healthcare.
Experience of undertaking assessments, and working with patients, families and carers is essential. The Personalised Healthcare Team are responsible for the assessment and review of people who reside in nursing care homes and the clinical commissioning of packages of care for people with continuing healthcare needs who reside in their own homes.
Ability to transport yourself (drive and hold a clean, valid UK driving licence with appropriate insurance) over a large geographical area whereby the service requirements are fully met.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist nursing assessment and review for Learning Disability adults and older people presenting with long term care needs who may be eligible for Continuing Health Care, Funded Nursing Care and jointly funded
packages of care. To provide assurance around quality of commissioned care packages and reporting of safeguarding concerns in accordance with agreed interagency reporting procedures.
Working for our organisation
The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe. It’s a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is one of the biggest and best-performing commissioning support units in the country, with among the highest levels of staff and customer satisfaction. We work together as a team of over 1,600 expert staff based across the Midlands and North West to make a difference – for our customers, patients and communities.
Offering a full range of professional services to hospital trusts, local authorities, integrated care systems (ICSs) and other public bodies\ across the country, our NHS values underpin everything we do.
In return, we provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career.
Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme and generous annual leave allowance.
MLCSU is committed to the process of redeploying at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Co-ordinating assessment for NHS Funded Nursing Care and Continuing Health Care as close to the service user as feasible.
To provide clinical commissioning oversight to applications and assessments concerning joint funded packages of care.
On-going review of service users eligible for CHC, NHS funded care in accordance with National Framework for NHS Funded Care, and Joint funded care packages of care.
Undertake urgent reviews of service users, where quality and safety concerns have been identified and report in a timely manner.
To prepare/complete appropriate documentation/tools to enable the level of NHS funding to be determined within the parameters of the National Framework for Continuing Health Care and Funded Nursing Care and Joint Funding arrangements locally.
To provide assurance with regard to quality of care of individual packages by undertaking reviews as agreed;
To actively promote communication and partnership working between the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors.
To communicate relevant information and to provide advice and support on funded nursing/continuing health care to service users and carers.
To liaise with other health professionals on clinical matters as part of the assessment process.
To maintain professional confidentiality in all matters relating to patient care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current UK NMC Registration for either RNLD or RMN.
- Current, full, UK driving licence.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work without direct supervision
Knowledge and Competencies
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of a variety of Learning Disability and/or Mental Health problems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Samantha Graham
- Job title
- Clinical Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500992504
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