Clinical Assessor and Review Officer

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB; Reading; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health authority seeks an experienced Clinical Assessor and Review Officer to join the AACCC team in Reading. Ideal candidates should have experience in ABI rehabilitation and complex cases, providing high-quality patient assessments and support. The role involves collaboration to enhance care outcomes, focusing on patient independence. A degree in a relevant subject and a professional clinical qualification are essential.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience conducting patient assessments.
• Knowledge of the national framework for CHC and FNC.
• Understanding rehabilitation goals for ABI and complex care.

Responsibilities

• Review and assess patients engaged in ABI rehabilitation.
• Support the complex case team to maximize patient care outcomes.
• Conduct assessments for individuals prior to Continuing Health care Process.

Skills

Project management skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience

Professional clinical qualification

Job description

Go back Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB

Clinical Assessor and Review Officer

The closing date is 22 October 2025

Unfortunately, we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require sponsorship.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, dynamic and passionate Practitioner to join the Allage complex and continuing healthcare (AACCC) team. The work stream is predominantly ABI and complex cases. Pre work for the NHS CHC process, that includes rehabilitation reviews and promoting patient to attain their potential baseline.

ABI and Complex case Practitioners are an integral part of the AACCC Complex care team working alongside other members of the Team to support the ComplexCare Lead, in achieving best practice and enable BOB ICB to fulfil its legal requirements.

Main duties of the job

This position requires the post holder to have a knowledge of working with patient requiring rehabilitation, particularly around acquired brain injury, spinal injury and complex cases. The role holder will need to understand principles of MCA and be willing to support team members with the responsibilities of a BIA if required. The applicant will have substantial experience of conducting patient assessments.

Main duties of the job:

• Support the team leads with reviewing and assessing those patients engaged in ABI rehabilitation, and ensuring that the goals are monitored and reviewed, ensuring optimum patient journey to achieve potential baseline.
• Ensure that care packages for complex cases are reviewed and right sized to ensure optimum potential is gained assuring baseline is achieved.
• Support the complex case team and the wider AACCC team and ICB to maximise care outcomes for patients, driving up quality, and reducing costs with cost improvement programmes.
• Assist the ICB to achieve value for money with right size care packages
• Promoting patient to maximum independence within the remit of this role.
• The role will involve travelling to meetings and patient homes as needed.

About us

NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board is the statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services for the communities of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.

We work collaboratively with partner organisations including local government, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, and people and communities across the BOB Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).

Our key priorities are to increase healthy life expectancy and reduce health inequalities for the 1.7 million people who live in our communities.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.

Our Values are:

• Respectful — we are inclusive
• Impactful — we make a difference
• Integrity — we are kind and fair
• Leadership — we encourage leadership
• Collaborative — we work together in a positive way

Job responsibilities

Within this role you will provide high quality project, service, initiative and administrative support including information and analysis, that supports the Complex Case Team, with Acquired Brain Injury and Interim Funding complex care.

The post holder will be responsible for assessing and reviewing individuals as part of an MDRT who are within funding streams prior to Continuing Health care Process commencing, hence patients not currently stable or at baseline ready for a checklist.

Working within the complex case team and/or within the remit of the National Framework (NF) for CHC and FNC, the post holder will provide a high quality service that supports the delivery of an effective and competent service that consistently delivers an individual-focused intervention with patients.

The postholder will support the team leads to undertake reporting and analysis of information to support delivery, ensuring patients are cared for and safe in the least restrictive environment, to achieve their rehabilitation, or interim care goals, to attain their optimum baseline.

The postholder is a key member of the team whose overarching goal is to enable, promote and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge and technology to improve, inform and support a portfolio of projects, services, and initiatives.

The job description and person specification are a generic outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role, a job profile will be created jointly with the post holder as part of appraisal and objective setting. The post holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person Specification

Planning Skills

• Skills for supporting project management.

Management Skills

• Skills for managing aspects of projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
• Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills.
• Ability to pull together data to support comprehensive draft reports, data and letters Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills

Experience

• Knowledge of the national framework for CHC and FNC.
• Understands rehabilitation goals and risk specific to ABI and complex care.
• Understands the principles and practice in accordance with MCA.
• Basic knowledge of project principles.
• Previously worked in similar position within the public sector.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Professional clinical qualification or registration.

Analytical

• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB