Senior Practitioner - Ongoing and Review inDorchester inDorchester PUBLISHED FRI 27 DEC 2024

Are you an experienced registered nurse (Adult, Mental Health or Learning Disability), Social Worker or Allied Health Professional motivated by providing outstanding person-centred support and would like to work in a passionate and inspiring environment?

Do you have experience in Continuing Healthcare (CHC)?

Are you interested in starting a career within Continuing Healthcare?

If yes, then we would love to hear from you!

As part of NHS Dorset Personal Health Commissioning Team (PHC), you will manage a caseload of CHC eligible individuals in accordance with National Framework for Continuing Healthcare, Undertake eligibility reviews and assess individuals needs in order to identify most appropriate care options. You will assist NHS Dorset commissioners in searching for care and make recommendations on appropriate placements.

NHS Dorset is a welcoming NHS employer, we offer a wide range of employee benefits, including NHS Discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, as well as being committed to the ongoing learning and development of our team. This role supports NMC/HCPC/Social Work England registered candidates and NHS Dorset is committed to providing Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities to its employees. NHS Dorset also provides opportunities in line with the CHC Competency Framework including peer development and external training. We are pleased to be able to offer Band 5 and Band 6 development opportunities.

You will manage a caseload of CHC eligible individuals in accordance with National Framework for Continuing Healthcare, collaborating with a range of healthcare professionally, community and acute services.

You must be able to work flexibly and autonomously and work collaboratively with Health and Social Care practitioners, patients, families, and carers, ensuring high quality assessments and timely service is delivered. You must demonstrate an openness and honesty and have strong assessment and communication skills and a knowledge of the National Frameworks for Continuing Healthcare, the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act and Care Act 2.

PHC has 2 offices. East Team is based in Poole, covering Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole area, and the West Team is based in Dorchester, covering Dorset area. This job advert is recruiting to positions within the East locality and based in Wallisdown, Poole, however you may be required to provide support across both sites as necessary. There will also be a requirement to make off-site visits to undertake assessments and attend meetings and it is therefore essential that you have a full driving licence with access to a vehicle for business use.

NHS Dorset operates a Monday-Friday 9-5 service.

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The post holder will play a key role in supporting the Personal Health Commissioning Service. Working within the remit of the National Frameworks for Continuing Healthcare, the post holder will deliver an effective and competent level of service and consistently deliver a client-focused service.

The post holder will be required to manage a caseload of CHC Eligible individuals ensuring the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and Funded-Nursing Care is implemented and complied with, according to the principles and processes. This caseload of complex cases would require annual eligibility reviews, ensuring value for money placements which meet the needs of the individual and identify opportunities for development and improvement to assist delivery of best practice healthcare.

The post holder will assist NHS Dorset commissioners in making recommendations on the most appropriate placement.

NHS Dorset also offer this role as a development post whereby employment would be commenced as a Band 5 and a development programme would be undertaken to enable advancement to a Band 6 Senior Practitioner role.

Although this is not a patient facing role, and is predominantly desk based, requiring high levels of concentration and an ability to analyse health, social care, and other agency records to identify whether the individual has/had a Primary Health Care Need, visits to patients and offices is a frequent requirement of the job .

NHS Dorset currently offers a hybrid model of working with a percentage of contracted hours being worked at our HQ in Poole so the post holder would need to be able to attend the office.