Senior Clinical Assessor - All Age Continuing Care Hampshire

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Fareham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Clinical Assessor/Practitioner (RNLD) for Continuing Healthcare. You will carry out thorough assessments to establish CHC eligibility, coordinate timely care planning, and support personal budgets and personalisation for adults with complex needs.

You will work within our All Age Continuing Care service, benefit from induction and training, and be part of a collaborative team that values compassion, honesty, courage, and

Qualifications

• Comprehensive assessment of patients to determine CHC eligibility.
• Review and case manage clients to meet care needs.
• Promote Personal Health Budgets and personalisation.
• Training on NHS CHC Framework will be provided during induction.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments to determine CHC eligibility.
• Review and case manage clients to meet care needs.
• Promote Personal Health Budgets and personalisation.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
• Support safeguarding, MCA, and Court of Protection processes.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Case management

Communication skills

Autonomy

Risk assessment

Team collaboration

Time management

Relationship building

Education

RNLD registration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Typing (intermediate)

Job description

Senior Clinical Assessor/Practitioner (RNLD registration) in Continuing Healthcare

Passionate about people? Thrive on advocating for your patients and negotiating the best outcomes? Great clinical assessment and case management skills? If this describes you, then read on! We are excited to announce new opportunities within our Hampshire and Isle of Wight All Age Continuing Care service. We are looking for people who are passionate about patient care and improving life opportunities who share our behaviours of being person centred, honest, courageous, innovative, and collaborative. As a Senior Clinical Assessor/Practitioner (RNLD registration) in Continuing Healthcare, you will be responsible for conducting comprehensive individual assessments of patients to assess their eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) to enable timely provision of care, and reviewing and case managing clients to ensure that their needs are effectively met and promoting Personal Health Budgets and personalisation to empower people with complex health needs live their best lives. Whilst experience in Continuing Healthcare would be helpful, if you have the right skills and attitude, we can support you to develop the specific skills required for Continuing Healthcare. We offer team training opportunities and Team Leaders who are non-case holding to mentor and develop our Clinical Assessors with complex cases, including safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and Court of Protection. You will be part of a wider All Age team who provide a wide range of expertise and support.

• You will be highly organised, flexible and have a positive 'can do' attitude.
• Be highly motivated and keen to learn/develop (training in respect of the NHS CHC Framework and its application will be provided as part of induction)
• Be accustomed to a high degree of autonomy on a day-to-day basis
• Have excellent clinical assessment skills and an ability to navigate risk
• Be able to assimilate large amounts of information and have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with attention to detail
• Ability to develop relationships and foster effective networks with key stakeholders, families and carers and have developed people management skills with experience of resolving difficult situations and challenging individuals effectively and calmly
• Be comfortable working with a wide variety of ages and individuals with very different clinical conditions
• Be able to assess and prescribe care dependent on the individuals holistic health and care needs
• Have a strong value set around quality and patient/carer experience
• Have excellent time management skills and thrive on working at pace
• Have excellent knowledge of Microsoft office and have intermediate typing skills
• Be local or be able to commit to regular onsite working and able to travel daily across the county and occasionally countrywide

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.