Lead Nurse- Continuing Healthcare

Integrated Care System; Bromley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare service in Bromley seeks a knowledgeable individual to manage continuing healthcare services. The role involves providing clinical leadership, ensuring compliance with regulations, and engaging with stakeholders to enhance patient care. Candidates should have a nursing degree, a minimum of 2 years’ experience, and strong management skills. This position promotes a commitment to high-quality healthcare in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years' experience at Grade 6 level in a related field.
• Experience of CHC and completing assessments.
• Demonstrated contribution to practice developments of Continuing Healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain systems for the CHC Team.
• Manage the continuing healthcare team efficiently and transparently.
• Communicate with local and national organisations on complex issues.

Skills

Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

Computer literacy

People management skills

Project management skills

Education

Educated to degree level

Evidence of ongoing post-basic qualifications

Job description

The post holder will be responsible for implementing the National Policy and Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Funded Nursing Care and Personal Health Budgets for Continuing Healthcare clients on behalf of the DGFT, taking into account the DOH Responsible Commissioner Guidance.

To take the lead role in service development and redesign based on analysis of CHC Service provision together with the ability to drive the service forward. To be responsible for the planning, monitoring and reviewing the continuing care service, providing expert clinical leadership and advise to the continuing healthcare team and wider health and social care economy including community and acute providers and Local Authority

Expected to work autonomously and use own initiative in developing and innovating continuing healthcare services.

Ensuring systems are in place to enable to timely decision making around CHC eligibility and fast track decision and to organise and maintain the momentum of weekly continuing healthcare panels for adults, with appropriate professional representation on panels.

Responsible to ensuring the CHC function is fully supported with up to date standard operating procedures and system policies in line with national directives and organisational instruction. Work hand in hand with the DGFT's safeguarding team to address the safety of patients in commissioned placements.

Main duties of the job

To develop and maintain systems and processes that build on the work of the CHC Team.

To maintain an awareness of legislation and changes to policy guidance affecting NHS Continuing healthcare and Funded Nursing Care.

To support the smooth running of the continuing healthcare and PHB Panels, providing a consistent approach to decision in accordance with the National Framework.

To manage the continuing health care team and PHB panel process to ensure it is efficient, effective, transparent and equitable. Ensuring clients and their representatives have the opportunity to present their case.

To attend monthly meetings with NHSE for CHC/ PHB leads cascading information to the rest of the team and commissioning managers.

To work in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct maintaining standards of care of current local and national best practice legislation.

To keep up to date with current knowledge and advances in relevant health and social care practice and maintain a clinical creditability ensure that practice is evidence based.

Be responsible for own continuing professional development and interpret appropriate professional clinical guidelines and standards in line with NMS registration and patient safety requirements.

About us

Here at the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do to offer a high-quality patient experience in a caring and supportive environment that aligns with our vision of providing excellent health care, improved health for all.

Job responsibilities

Direct contact with patients if undertaking a investigation, by telephone or face to face. Involved with patient in relation to patient safety walkabout in clinical areas and patient safety clinical audit providers.

Will act as a source of expert advice, drawing upon extensive clinical experience in a variety of setting and knowledge of patient clinical outcomes, patient safety and quality improvement initiatives.

To advise provider organisations on appropriate standards and requirements for determining a Primary Health Need and to assist in the development of competent assessors within the organisation

To communicate with national and local organisations, public bodies, patients and carers and independent providers on complex sensitive matters and issues in complex situations arising from the application of NHS Continuing Healthcare criteria and the outcome.

To work in an advisory capacity across the DGFT Commissioning teams to facilitate the implementation of PHBs and the development of functional operating procedures to support this implementation.

Manage unpredictable and challenging situations; acting in a sensitive manner when communicating to patients and/ or their representatives, decisions in relation to eligibility both verbally and in writing, recognising that imparting this information may include settings that are high emotive, emotional and challenging e.g. situations such as at end of life.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of on-going post-basic qualifications in area identified.
• Highly skilled clinical nurse competent to practice within expanded role.
• Evidence of commitment to lifelong academic learning.
• Highly skilled clinical nurse, competent to practice and expand role.
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent/ evidence of working to).

Knowledge and Training

• Minimum of 2 years' experience at Grade 6 level in related field.
• Proven ability to work across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of CHC and completing assessments.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the Continuing Healthcare Framework
• Demonstrate contribution to practice developments of Continuing Healthcare
• Operational management in a Continuing Care setting.

Skills

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Computer literate- ability to use software programmes to maximise contribution to the post.
• Demonstrate knowledge of current legislative changes affecting the NHS and the Local Authority.
• Demonstrate ability to implement robust administration system/ processes to support continuing service care developments.
• People management skills and experience in coaching, mentoring and nurturing colleagues in a clinical setting.
• Project management skills to produce outputs within set timescales.
• Application of the NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice.
• Knowledge of budgeting and finance issues related to continuing healthcare

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.