CHC Clinical Assessor B6 inBasildon inBasildon PUBLISHED
THU 7 NOV 2024
In this role, responsibilities include assessing patient eligibility for continuous care, advising staff on care provision, and managing ongoing case reviews and appeals processes. The position requires a proactive team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment, and who is committed to improving healthcare experiences while addressing the needs of the diverse population served by the Integrated Care Board. The role also involves contributing to strategic goals and financial processes within the AACC service.
Full time and Part time positions available
Our All Age Continuing Care Team (AACC) puts people at the heart of what we do. Were passionate and dedicated to getting people the right care, in the right place, at the right time and by the right person. We work openly and transparently with our partners and our providers to deliver an integrated, innovative and valuable service.
We recognise our staff are our services greatest resource and we look to develop meaningful, exciting, and rewarding opportunities for them. We want AACC to be a place for teams and individuals to grow and develop in their career.
We have some exciting opportunities for enthusiastic and experienced registered adult nurses from multiple disciplines including Learning Disabilities, Mental Health and General Nursing and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) who are keen to work within AACC. Is this you? Why not join our dynamic team and help deliver our vision for AACC across Mid and South Essex.
The Mid and South Essex AACC teams aim is to ensure that individuals and their families encounter improved experiences, transparency, and consistency across all forms of continuing care, with a smooth transition between services and resource provision. It is essential to us that all people being assessed receive an equal and comparable, good quality, consistent, high standard; person-centred experience no matter who they are or where they are or when the assessment takes place.
Your role as a Nurse / Allied Health Professional (AHP) Clinical Assessor within the adult division of Continuing Care will be key to ensuring that we are able to implement our above aim in a high-quality way. As a Nurse/AHP Clinical assessor, you will work under the guidance and support of the senior clinical team leads to implement the NHS Continuing Healthcare framework for those 18 years of age across Mid and South Essex. You will promote best practice, provide professional advice to providers, promote good relationships and be able to liaise with colleagues from other disciplines both internally and externally to the Integrated Care Board.
The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and assessment skills. They will be able to work proactively to problem solve and prioritise their workload. Successful candidates will need to have a flexible attitude and be a keen team player who enjoys working within an energetic fast-paced environment.
About us
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY
The role of the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board (MSE ICB) is to join up health and care services, improve peoples health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for our 1.2m population through our wider system and four Alliances. MSE ICB are committed to place clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realising all its ambitions.
This role sits within the Nursing and Quality Directorate and supports the clinical and operational lead role in the All Age Continuing Care (AACC) service, which incorporates the adult Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and Children, Young Peoples Continuing Care (CYPCC) teams and the Neuro Navigation team.
This role sits within the Nursing and Quality Directorate and is the clinical and operational lead role in the All Age Continuing Care (AACC) service, which incorporates the adult Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and Children, Young Peoples Continuing Care (CYPCC) teams and the Neuro Navigation team.
The AACC service delivers the statutory duties of the MSE ICB to assess and provide services that meet the identified needs of those found eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding. The service delivers that duty through the implementation of the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (2and the National Framework for Children and Young Peoples Continuing Care (2, working in accordance with the MSE ICB AACC Operational Policy.
This Clinical Support Officer role will deliver a high-quality standard of clinical assessment, review and management of AACC cases, working collaboratively with key partners to achieve best outcomes. The post holder will work with the Clinical Support Manager to ensure that they deliver the highest quality and most appropriate services to patients and drive continuous service improvement.
COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES
Dependent on allocated caseload, the role may include:
To provide advice and guidance to support both health and social care staff who are involved with patient assessment, care provision and care and support planning.
- To provide assessment, care and support planning, ongoing case management and review for all patients eligible for NHS continuing care funding.
- To assess retrospective claims for CHC eligibility.
- To support panels, appeals and local resolution processes as clinical representative.
- To ensure the agreed care and support package continues to meet the individuals assessed health and associated care/support needs and their agreed outcomes.
- Management of a small number of staff
- Contribute to the delivery of one or more strategic plans, enabling key milestones to be delivered and raising any issues associated with the delivery of plans and workstreams.
- To have awareness of budget/s, contributing to budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
- Responsible for decisions made during the course of their duties, seeking guidance and escalating issues where appropriate.
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