PHB Nurse (NHS AfC: Band 6) - NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board; Kings Langley; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a PHB Nurse to support the implementation of Personal Health Budgets. Key responsibilities include managing queries, assessing care plans, and engaging with patients to meet their health outcomes. Ideal candidates will have PHB experience and strong negotiation skills. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a positive impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Evidence of PHB experience.
• Extensive knowledge of CHC specialist areas.
• Ability to provide complex information and negotiate.

Responsibilities

• Manage phone and email queries requiring clinical input.
• Meet individuals/families interested in a Personal Health Budget.
• Assess care plans to meet clinical needs.

Skills

PHB experience

Negotiation skills

Stakeholder engagement

Planning and organisation

Education

Post graduate diploma or equivalent experience

Job description

Main area PHB Nurse Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am to 5pm) Job ref 468-HWE475-A

Employer NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. The Forum I Marlows I Hemel Hempstead I HP1 1DN Town Hemel Hempstead Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum plus 5% HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 13/10/2025 23:59

PHB Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

The post holder will support the Personal Health Budget Lead to implement Personal Health Budgets across the service area.

The post holder will work with patients and their representatives to ensure that their health and wellbeing outcomes are met by ensuring that they have choice in how they manage their care and support.

The post holder will actively engage with All Age Continuing Care staff, community nurses, and providers to deliver advice, support and training.

The post holder will also support the development and implementation of Personal Health Budgets to wider groups of people as directed. Providing clinical challenge when a Personal Health Budget is offered to groups outside of All Age Continuing Care, including Mental Health and Children.

Main duties of the job

The Post Holder will:

Be responsible for managing phone and email queries where clinical input is required.

Meet with individuals and their families that are interested in taking a Personal Health Budget.

Encourage creative and personalised ways for people to meet their needs.

Assess care plans to ensure they will meet patients clinical needs.

Attend panels to present and discuss support plans, and any funding that may be required for a Personal Health Budget.

Undertake and produce documentation around risk assessments.

Review Personal Health Budgets and produce reports

Caseload will be made up of all CHC Eligible service users who accept a Personal Health Budget.

Responsible for setting up Notional and Direct Payments for all Personal Health Budget Holders.

Communicate difficult decisions to patients and their representatives in a way that upholds the values of HWE ICB.

Working for our organisation

Here at Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board, we're responsible for planning and overseeing how NHS money is spent to support the people who live in Hertfordshire and west Essex.

We have around 750 employees and our role is to make sure health services work well and are of high quality as well as value for money.

It’s an exciting time for us and we’re looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.

Please note this is Band 6 AFC subject to job evaluation.

Person specification

PHB and CHC knowledge

• Evidence they have PHB experience

PHB background

• Knowledge of Personal Health Budgets
• CHC knowledge

CHC and Personal Health Budget knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of CHC specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
• Working knowledgeable of Who Pays Guidance 2020

CHC

• Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances. Inputs to strategic plans across the NHS and within the specific teams. Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market. Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines Proven track record of involving stakeholders in the planning of modernisation and monitoring of services. Previous experience of effective planning and commissioning of the relevant to CHC. Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, health issue or a life event, please let us know so that we can consider your application fairly and get the best out of you during the selection process.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship, so you'll need to be able to demonstrate your right to work in the UK during the recruitment process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.