Continuing Healthcare Nurse Assessor
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £20.06 to £31.52 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £20.06 - £31.52 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6JL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | M0042-24-2769 |
Summary
Job Title: Continuing Healthcare Nurse Assessor Location: Charter House **Pay to be discussed at interview About the Trust: Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality. The ICBs role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. We have a budget of around £2.8 billion, for the 1.6 million people who live in this area. The budget is set by NHS England. As a member, youll have fantastic benefits: Competitive pay rates work this week, get paid next week Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go access your My Bank shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone Essential support when you need it 24/7 365 days Call us anytime Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust access before they are made available to agency Varied working options to suit your lifestyle access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements Training and development opportunities Build holiday allowance for every shift you work Stakeholder pension scheme available What you'll be responsible for: This role identifies and assesses the primary healthcare needs of patients to determine whether they are eligible for funding either through Funded Nursing Care or Continuing Healthcare Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management. Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues and senior management as appropriate Members of the public and service users as appropriate External staff from partner organisations and other NHS trusts Non-NHS organisations To work with provider services to assist in the development of competent assessors to undertake assessments and reviews. Manage day to day communication with other team members within the continuing healthcare team To provide contemporaneous records on all clients and reports as necessary adhering to NMC standards for record keeping. Responsible for collating evidence and information for the Decision Support Tool and liaising with the multidisciplinary team in order for a team recommendation to be made for eligibility for Continuing Healthcare funding. Present information for panel deliberation.