Clinical Nurse Assessment Specialist

Exemplar Health Care Services Limited; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nursing care provider in the UK is seeking a Clinical Nurse Assessment Specialist to join their team. This nationwide role involves conducting clinical assessments, supporting care homes, and ensuring exemplary experiences for service users. The ideal candidate holds a valid NMC PIN and is passionate about working with individuals with complex health needs. This full-time position offers competitive salary and great benefits, including career development opportunities.

Benefits

Excellent supervision and peer support

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

Paid NMC membership

Paid access to RCNi Learning

24/7 counselling support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• Conduct assessments of individual needs for care packages.
• Work in a fast-paced, responsive team.
• Willingness to travel to various care homes.

Responsibilities

• Support care homes with clinical pre-admission assessments.
• Produce cost per care assessments for care packages.
• Coach Clinical Nurse Managers in assessment processes.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to conduct thorough assessments

Passion for working with complex health needs

Flexibility and ability to work independently

Self-motivation and good organization skills

Education

First-level nursing registration with valid NMC PIN

Job description

Overview

Clinical Nurse Assessment Specialist (RGN/RMN/RNLD)

Location: This is a nationwide role, covering our existing and new portfolio of homes. The ability to drive and access to a car is essential.

Contract type: Full time, 40 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Salary: £40,000 per annum, plus £3,000 car allowance

Join us as our new Clinical Nurse Assessment Specialist here at Exemplar Health Care. Reporting to the Senior Clinical Assessment Specialist, you’ll work flexibly as part of a highly motivated Clinical Assessment Team, supporting our specialist care homes to respond to an ever-growing number of service user referrals. We have an ambitious growth plan to expand our portfolio of homes over the coming years, and we are looking to add this role to enhance our established function. You will need to demonstrate passion, commitment and determination to ensure every referral is managed to the highest standard and that our customers receive an exemplary experience.

About Exemplar Health Care

Exemplar Health Care is one of the country’s leading nursing care providers for adults living with complex needs. We have over 55 care homes across England supporting adults with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities and physical disabilities. We offer stable employment opportunities, great benefits and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

Role responsibilities

• Support care homes to complete clinical pre-admission assessments, working closely with operational and clinical colleagues. Travel to different care settings nationwide within the allocated working day.
• Produce individual cost per care assessments that demonstrate the specialist care package and justify the interventions and costs. This can be completed in the office or remotely from home during working hours.
• Coach Clinical Nurse Managers and Home Managers in the assessment and costing process and contribute to training delivery.
• Support processing of referrals, as requested by the Senior Clinical Assessment Specialist, working with the Referrals and Occupancy Management Team.
• Uphold the company vision and drive the Exemplar Health Care strategy.
• Where required, support homes with reassessment of existing service users.
• Build relationships with new and potential referrers.
• Attend conferences, events and networks to build relationships and raise Exemplar Health Care’s profile as required.

About you

We value people who identify with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork. You’ll also have:

• An ability to conduct thorough assessments of individual need and identify suitable packages of care to enable people to achieve their outcomes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of staff and stakeholders.
• A passion for working with individuals with complex health needs.
• A desire to work in a fast-paced, responsive team and develop a systematic approach to referral management while ensuring the highest standard of customer experience.
• Flexibility and the ability to work independently and as part of a team; good organisation skills and self-motivation.
• Willingness to travel to various portfolio homes.
• Confidence in representing Exemplar Health Care at internal, commissioner and contract meetings.
• This is a nationwide role; the ability to drive and access to a car is essential.

Qualifications

To apply, you must have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN. We’re looking for Registered Nurses from all backgrounds (Adult, Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses).

What we offer

• Excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• Retail and lifestyle discounts
• Free DBS check
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Paid NMC membership
• Paid access to the RCNi Learning platform
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.

For an informal chat about joining us, please contact our Nurse Talent Specialist Lisandra Ferreira on 07951 794 598 or email [e-mail]