Senior Clinical Practitioner/Assessor

ICB UK (Institute of Certified Bookkeepers); United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Clinical Practitioner to improve the lives of children and young people facing mental health challenges. This role involves working collaboratively with various stakeholders to provide essential support and care. You will oversee assessments and ensure that young individuals have access to necessary services. If you're passionate about making a difference in the community and have the required qualifications, this is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team focused on enhancing the well-being of vulnerable children.

Benefits

27 days paid holiday

NHS pension scheme

Sick pay policy

Occupational health services

Flexible working policies

Qualifications

• Registered Health or Social Care Professional with current registration.
• Experience in assessment and care planning in health or social care.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively to address child and family needs.
• Complete assessments and chair meetings as part of MDT.

Skills

Assessment of health and social care needs

Care planning and coordination

Stakeholder management

Effective communication

Ability to work under stress

Education

Degree in relevant subject

Tools

Microsoft software

Job description

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Key details

Location

SiteOmega House,TownEastleighPostcodeSO50 5PBMajor / Minor RegionHampshire

Contract type & working pattern

ContractPermanent: Monday - FridayHours37.5 hours per week

• Full time
• Part time

Salary

Salary£35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rataSalary periodYearlyGrade(NHS AfC: Band 6)

Specialty

Main areaMental health, Learning disability and Autism

Job overview

Senior Clinical Practitioner/Assessor

Band 6, 37.5 hours per week (1 WTE).

Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and young people with Mental health and complex needs, Learning Disability and Autism and behaviours that challenge?

Are you a registered practitioner with current registration with a professional body?

Do you have experience working with young people with mental health needs, S117 status, LDA, and neurodiversity.

If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Specialist Practitioner for our Children and Young People’s LDA and Complex Care services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (HIOW) to join our growing team.

Our team is focused on admission avoidance for our most vulnerable children of our society who have a diagnosis of Learning Disability, Autism or both and may be experiencing a mental health crisis in the community and may be at risk of entering Tier 4 mental health services.

Our role is to try and reduce their risk in the community or ensure that their stay in a mental health hospital is for the shortest time possible. We work with our partners across HIOW and ensure we know about these children via our management of the Dynamic support register. If a child or young person is at risk we will convene a Care, Education and Treatment reviews to ensure their needs are being met or what we can do as a network to meet the needs.

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Main Responsibilities; -

The successful candidate will be working in a collaborative approach to address the child and family’s needs; whilst working closely with colleagues from social care, education, health, and other external agencies to ensure the young person’s needs are met. Though working collaboratively with other key professionals, the successful candidate will need to be able to complete assessments, chair meetings and be present as part of MDT meetings.

Please find attached the detailed job description for further details.

You will oversee all eligible S117 children and young people and have an oversight on the statement of needs as well as supporting with reviews to ensure they have access to the care, education, and treatment they need in the community to keep them safe and well. You will be the point of contact within the ICB to be able to support wider networks in their understanding and responsibility of S117 aftercare and offer advice and support where required.

You will support in the delivery of Care, Education and Treatment reviews for those Children and young people eligible via the Dynamic support register and ensure recommendations are followed up in a timely way and reviews are undertaken.

A key part of your role will be to build and maintain effective partnership working and collaboration to ensure our children and young people are supported in the best way possible, identifying and highlighting gaps in their care.

Working for our organisation

Working for HIOW:

Ensuring patients receive the care they need, in the right place and at the right time is the top priority for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (HIOW ICB)

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.

We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.

We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture, and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.

Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:

• 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement.
• NHS pension scheme
• Sick pay policy
• Occupational health services including staff counselling services.
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
• Health Service Discounts – offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.

Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

All Age Continuing Care covers, Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care as a statutory duty of the Integrated Care Board for individuals with a ‘primary health need’, including Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Physical Disability, and Fast Track. All Age Continuing Care also has Integrated Care Board duties to children and young people (Children’s Continuing Care), joint packages of health and social care (where an individual is not eligible for Continuing Healthcare but specific needs have been identified through the Decision Support Tool that are beyond the powers of the local authority to meet on its own), personal health budgets, stand-alone health needs, s117 of the Mental Health Act and Specialist Rehabilitation (Acquired Brain Injury) . All Age Continuing Care delivers the patient specific Learning Disabilities and Autism Programme Integrated Care Board responsibilities. In some areas positions will be within an integrated role with duties across Integrated Commissiong or Local Authorities. ? To work within the NHS All Age Continuing Care team with responsibility for coordination and delivery of needs/eligibility assessment, case management and review of patients under the relevant frameworks for NHS Continuing Healthcare, Funded Nursing Care, Fast Track, Children’s Complex Care and All Age Continuing Care ? The post holder will use specialist knowledge and clinical skills to ensure that cases and outcomes are managed in a consistent, equitable, safe and cost effective, ensuring appropriate and proportionate application and interpretation of the relevant frameworks and guidance ? The post holder will require good verbal and written communication skills to communicate with patients, their families and other professionals. The production of accurate, detailed and comprehensive reports is essential ? The post holder will work closely with hospitals, community services and care providers to develop systems and processes to facilitate a smooth assessment and referral process ? The post holder will review the clinical needs of the patient with regard to appropriateness of the placement, level of care being provided, safeguarding and entitlement to NHS All Age Continuing Care ? Be a key member of the team as well as supporting effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally ? The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job 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 ? This role will include weekend working when required. 2. Key working relationships Internal: ? Clinical Team Leaders and Deputy Head of Service ? Case Practitioners ? Brokerage ? Business Delivery Team ? Personalisation and Personal Health Budgets Team ? Deprivation of Liberty Team ? Strategic Commissioning ? Integrated Commissioning Units ? Quality and Safeguarding Directorate ? Project Management Office ? Finance External: ? Families and clients ? Adult Social Care ? Childrens Services and Education ? General Practices ? Hospices ? Acute and Community Hospitals/Services ? Appellants and their representatives ? Nursing Homes, Care Homes, Home Care and Supported Living Providers ? Voluntary sector ? Education providers / Special Educational Needs ? External service provision companies ? Training providers ? NHS England 3. Role responsibilities 3.1 Leadership ? Provide effective decision-making to ensure the care of patients is based on clinical need and delivers the best possible outcome for patients using the NHS National Framework. ? Provide leadership and advanced decision making within the NHS All Age Continuing Care process, using analytical and clinical judgement skills to interpret a range of verbal and written information to ensure (as relevant) the Checklist, Health Needs Assessment and Decision Support Tool, Funded Nursing Care, Fast Track, Joint Funding determinations have been comprehensively and accurately completed ? Actively contribute to personalisation and choice and promote uptake of Personal Health Budgets amongst clients ? To advocate on behalf of clients regarding clinical issues as required ? Contribute to the technical understanding and application of Department of Health and other relevant NHS All Age Continuing Care legislation ? Coordinating multidisciplinary meetings, care programme approach reviews and vulnerable adult’s / safeguarding children’s strategic planning meetings as require ? Provide support and professional advice to other professionals, applicants, other relevant individuals 3.2 Financial Management ? Deliver against organisational objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines. ? Ensure that effective eligibility and case management occurs to ensure best use of NHS resources ? Ensure that all funding is accurately recorded on the patient record management system and adhere to the ICB’s Standing Financial Instructions ? Support the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementing, evaluating and delivery of plans by providing sophisticated, high quality information and analysis ? Continually strive for delivering project/function outcomes, value for money and greater efficiency ? Contribute to the financial delivery of the service ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time 3.3 People ? Participating in the management of enquiries by the general public/relatives and clients concerning NHS All Age Continuing Care and respond appropriately to such enquiries ? Promoting excellent customer care throughout the NHS All Age Continuing Care. This will include providing, explaining and receiving highly complex, sensitive and contentious information requiring negotiation, agreement or co-operation where there are barriers to understanding / application ? Working autonomously and collaboratively with the respective Local Authority staff and other members of the multi-disciplinary team regarding present and future management of clients receiving NHS All Age Continuing Care ensuring clinical effectiveness ? Being responsible for assuring standards for assessments and reviews, liaison with families, statutory agencies, independent sector bodies and others as required to manage the NHS All Age Continuing Care process. ? Ensuring effective communication and liaison with key stakeholders, including partner agencies such as local Acute Trust and Local Authority partners plus General Practitioners, solicitors, clients, carers and their families and private and statutory care providers. ? Provide specialist training, advice and support on own role/responsibilities where necessary ? Support training and induction of new staff ? Supervises team as required ? Participate in the recruitment process of support and clinical staff 3.4 Information management ? Be responsible for ensuring that all relevant information is collected, collated and assimilated to identify relevant patient needs ? Take responsibility for ensuring own clinical records are accurate, contemporaneous and maintained in accordance with the standards set out in relevant professional guidance and ICB Policy ? Operate within and provide enhancements to current management information, reporting to enhance decision making processes. ? Updating, maintaining, organise, gather and analyse information to predict/meet future organisational and team needs by identifying best professional practice ? Carry out timely and accurate information analysis and reporting on agreed areas of portfolio ? To accurately update an input patient data to relevant data systems 3.5 Professional and Personal Development ? Maintain the competence, knowledge and skills affiliated with professional registration and adhere to these in the direct delivery of care to patients. ? To deliver care in accordance with national and local policies and procedures in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council guidance or other relevant registered professional bodies

Please see attached the detailed person specification and job description for further details.

This job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role; the job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required. 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

Please note the following before applying: 1. We reserve the right to amend the closing date based on the volume of applications received. Vacancies attracting a high volume of applications may therefore close earlier than advertised. 2. In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.

3. As a Disability Confident Employer we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. As an ICB, we value diversity and are committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

4. If you are successful and are joining from a non-NHS background, there will be an expectation that you will be engaged from the bottom of the pay band. If you would like to review the Agenda for Change pay scales in more detail and to view other benefits of working in the NHS, please visit the Agenda for Change website for further details.

5. New employees to the ICB will be subject to a probationary period of six months (some exemptions apply, please refer to the ICBs policy for full details).

We encourage and support our staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as this remains the best way to protect ourselves, our families, our colleagues, and patients from the virus.

We recognise that some candidates for accessibility reasons may use software to support their application. At our Organisation, our selection process ensures we recruit candidates with the right skills and values. We monitor applications and remain alert to misuse that misrepresents abilities including the inappropriate use of AI.

Applicant requirements

warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• Registered Health or Social Care Professional with current registration with professional body i.e. NMC or HCPC.
• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in health or social care.
• Experience of assessment of health and social care needs – care planning and coordination.
• Ability to work effectively under stressful conditions in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
• Effective working knowledge of Microsoft software.
• A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrable experience of care/case management.
• Knowledge of and experience of NHS Funded Continuing Health Care criteria – guidance and policies.
• Good knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and relevant legislation
• Experience of developing care packages.

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

• Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
• Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.

Autonomy

Essential criteria

• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.

Equality and Diversity

Essential criteria

• Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.

Documents

• B6 Specialist Practitioner/Assessor (, 685.3)PDFKB

Further details / informal visits contact

NameLaura GloverJob titleCYP LDA Programme PractitionerEmail address [email protected]Telephone number07747776553