Senior Clinical Assessor - All Age Continuing Care Hampshire

Job summary

• Passionate about people?
• Thrive on advocating for your patients and negotiating the best outcomes?
• Great clinical assessment and case management skills?

If this describes you...then read on!

We are excited to announce new opportunities within our Hampshire and Isle of Wight All Age Continuing Care service. We are looking for people who are passionate about patient care and improving life opportunities who share our behaviours of being person centred, honest, courageous, innovative, and collaborative.

As a Senior Clinical Assessor/Practitioner (Registered Nurse, SWE or HCPC registration) in Continuing Healthcare, you will be responsible for conducting comprehensive individual assessments of patients to assess their eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) to enable timely provision of care, case managing clients to ensure that their needs are effectively met and promoting Personal Health Budgets and personalisation to empower people with complex health needs live their best lives.

Whilst experience in Continuing Healthcare would be helpful, if you have the right skills and attitude, we can support you to develop the specific skills required for Continuing Healthcare. We offer team training opportunities and Team Leaders who are non-case holding in order to mentor and develop our Clinical Assessors with complex cases, including safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and Court of Protection. You will be part of a wider All Age team who provide a wide range of expertise and support.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Main responsibilities / attributes

• You will be highly organised, flexible and have a positive 'can do' attitude.
• Be highly motivated and keen to learn/develop (training in respect of the NHS CHC Framework and its application will be provided as part of induction)
• Be accustomed to a high degree of autonomy on a day-to-day basis
• Have excellent clinical assessment skills and an ability to navigate risk
• Be able to assimilate large amounts of information and have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with attention to detail
• Ability to develop relationships and foster effective networks with key stakeholders, families and carers and have developed people management skills with experience of resolving difficult situations and challenging individuals effectively and calmly
• Be comfortable working with a wide variety of ages and individuals with very different clinical conditions
• Be able to assess and prescribe care dependent on the individuals holistic health and care needs
• Have a strong value set around quality and patient/carer experience
• Have excellent time management skills and thrive on working at pace
• Have excellent knowledge of Microsoft office and have intermediate typing skills
• Be local or be able to commit to regular onsite working and able to travel daily across the county and occasionally countrywide

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job description

The All-Age Continuing Care Team supports over 7,500 clients through a range of funding arrangements including Continuing Healthcare, Section 117 aftercare, specialist placements, Children's Continuing Care and other joint funding and oversight of a budget of 392M. Our roles are community based with flexible working from a local office and home and is a key role to support people to live well with complex health and primary health needs. Post holders will be employed by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, working in partnership with NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board.

Our All-Age Team purpose is clear: 'To improve health opportunities and outcomes within our system by delivering seamless, affordable, and individually focused care for those requiring our services.'

Our values and behaviours are:

• Integrity: I keep our shared values at the centre of my conduct and decision-making
• Compassion: I approach people with kindness and empathy, striving to support the care I would want for my loved ones
• Accountability: I can be trusted to act fairly and honestly, taking ownership for decisions and achieving outcomes
• Respect: I am professional and courteous, seek opinions and value difference
• Empowerment: I create safe environments where I and others can be curious and innovative

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Health or Social Care Professional with current registration with professional body i.e. NMC, HCPC or SWE

Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in health or social care

Experience

Essential

Experience of assessment of health and social care needs -- care planning and coordination.

Knowledge and relevant experience working with individuals who are autistic and/or have learning disabilities and/or mental health issues (LD/MH/LDAP team roles)

Knowledge of complex neurological conditions and experience of working with clients with complex brain injuries. Specific knowledge of the National Service Frameworks and appropriate national policy related to rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury/ neurological dysfunction (Specialist Rehabilitation / ABI team)

Experience of working effectively under stressful conditions in a rapidly changing environment.

Desirable

Demonstrable experience of care/case management.

Knowledge of and experience of NHS Funded Continuing Health Care criteria -- guidance and policies and other legal frameworks as required (Children and Complex Care, s117 Aftercare, Mental Health Act)

Experience of developing care packages.

Experience of implementing and managing Personal Health Budgets

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Simon Mkwananzi 

simon.mkwananzi1@nhs.net