CHC Nurse Assessor

Whittington Health NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the City of Westminster is looking for a CHC Assessor to ensure proper assessments for continuing healthcare. The role involves processing referrals, conducting multidisciplinary assessments, and reviewing care packages. Ideal candidates will have current knowledge of NHS criteria and work collaboratively with social services. The Trust emphasizes fairness and accessibility in service delivery and for its workforce, creating a supportive environment for all employees.

Qualifications

• Current knowledge of the national criteria for fully funded NHS continuing healthcare.
• Experience in conducting multidisciplinary assessments.

Responsibilities

• Process continuing healthcare referrals in accordance with national guidance.
• Carry out reviews and assessments for self‑funding and joint-funded individuals.
• Coordinate assessments and present cases to the Complex Needs Panel.

Job description

The CHC Assessor will be responsible for ensuring that those who are receiving funding from Continuing health care either in part or whole assessments either in nursing homes or their own homes are reviewed and assessed using nationally recognised tools.

The post holder will review both their care packages and needs at prescribed intervals or when requested by care home managers where the client's condition has changed.

The CHC Nurse assessor will be a valuable component of the developing Continuing Care team. The CHC assessor will be responsible for coordinating multidisciplinary assessments for those who are eligible for a full assessment for fully funded NHS Continuing Healthcare by attending and presenting cases to the complex care panel.

Main duties of the job

• To process continuing healthcare referrals in accordance with national guidance.
• To carry out reviews and assessments for those individuals who are either self‑funding, joint funded or supported by social services.
• To review clients after 3 months and thereafter yearly or sooner if necessary in accordance to the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare.
• To complete all relevant paperwork in a timely manner and inform the administrator at social services of the outcome of the assessments/reviews.
• To have current knowledge of the national criteria for fully funded NHS continuing healthcare.
• To work closely and collaboratively with the social services residential Review Team to screen all residents in care homes using the nationally recognised checklist to ensure residents have the opportunity for as full continuing care assessment.
• To act as care coordinator for those residents who require a full continuing care assessment, co‑ordinating the assessment and information from the multi‑disciplinary team and presenting those cases to the Complex Needs Panel.

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.