Senior CHC Nurse Assessor

Whittington Health; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000

Job description

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: 222 Upper Street

Town: London

Salary: £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inclusive of HCAs

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 15/04/2025 23:59

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Job overview

This post is critical to the development and delivery of effective and high standard Continuing Healthcare provision within Haringey and Islington. The post holder will hold a caseload of highly complex individuals requiring bespoke case-management, and will be responsible for clinical case management, assessments and reviews of people known to the Continuing Healthcare team. Working autonomously, the post holder will have continuing responsibility for proactively monitoring and managing individuals on the caseload of the team, and will use clinical reasoning for the effective identification of any exacerbations or to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

The post holder will have specialist knowledge in relation to continuing healthcare, underpinned by theory and clinical expertise, and will work in partnership with other disciplines and agencies, including GPs, social services, community nursing and therapists, pharmacists, care agencies, care homes and mental health services in order to manage the care of people with highly complex needs.

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Main duties of the job

MAIN DUTIES

Clinical Advice

1. To work collaboratively with key stakeholders to influence and implement Continuing Healthcare characteristics and policy, reporting any gaps in provision to the CHC Operational Lead Nurse and the CCG Continuing Healthcare Lead.
2. To work collaboratively with district nurses, and offer advice and support to manage the care of individuals with complex health needs living in their own homes, or in residential/nursing care settings.
3. To ensure contemporaneous and accurate record keeping is maintained.
4. To be a key contributor to Islington’s continuing healthcare panel in the absence of the CHC Operational Lead Nurse, ensuring continuity and equitable access to available resources to eligible service users and individuals.
5. To provide clinical advice to multidisciplinary teams managing the care of Islington individuals whose care is funded by continuing healthcare, including people in placements that are out of borough.

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Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Managerial Responsibilities

1. To deputise for the CHC Operational Lead Nurse in their absence.
2. To manage the junior nurse assessors in the team.
3. To organise meetings with multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) within the service and key staff members whenever required.
4. To support junior staff members with their caseloads and capacity management.
5. To work collaboratively with the CHC Operational Lead Nurse in managing the financial budget and control and adhering to good clinical practice at all times.
6. To ensure all data collection is up to date and provided in a timely manner to the CHC Operational Lead Nurse and the CCG for performance review as required.
7. To respond to complaints in accordance to the Trust guidelines and policies, ensuring any actions required are carried out.
8. To be responsible for ensuring effective multidisciplinary team working and the development of positive multi-agency working.
9. To ensure that all individual records are holistic, accurate, individualised and updated regularly.
10. To monitor all aspects of adverse events and implement changes to prevent reoccurrence and improve individual care.
11. To have the knowledge and experience to challenge traditional clinical practices to ensure that evidence based best practice is identified and implemented.

Person specification

Qualifications

1. RGN
2. 4 years post-training experience

Communication Skills

1. Good written and verbal communication
2. Critical thinking and good command of English
3. Able to use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
4. Good IT skills and typing essential

Experience

1. Community Nursing/Health Assessment
2. Ideally CHC experience

Managerial Skills

1. At least one year's experience
2. Has Managerial Experience

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:

1. Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
2. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
3. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
4. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
5. Participate in required training and supervision.
6. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form:

1. Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the job description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes:

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job, unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If you require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information:

1. Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system.
2. Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
3. In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk.

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.