Senior Nurse/Professional Adults CHC

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board in Sheffield is seeking a Senior Nurse/Professional Adults CHC to lead multidisciplinary eligibility assessments and care management for NHS CHC funding. The post focuses on DST-led MDT collaboration, complex CHC eligibility decisions, and support for patients, carers and care providers.

The role requires a registered nurse with experience in CHC, strong communication skills, and the ability to coordinate across health and social care partners.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current professional registration.
• Experience in CHC or healthcare/public sector environments.
• Ability to manage MDT processes and DST.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate MDT eligibility assessments for CHC.
• Ensure DST completion and MDT involvement.
• Facilitate CHC assessments and liaise with patients, carers and staff.
• Provide specialist advice on the National Framework for CHC eligibility.
• Lead care package reviews and procurement of care.
• Deliver CHC education programs to staff and teams.
• Travel within Sheffield as required to support caseloads.

Skills

Independent working

Prioritising workloads

Communication

Negotiating

Report writing

Stakeholder management

Education

Nurse Registration

Degree level education

Post-graduate diploma in project management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Senior Nurse/Professional Adults CHC

The closing date is 24 November 2026

NHS South Yorkshire integrated Care Board(SY ICB) Sheffield Place has an exciting opportunity for you to join the ContinuingHealthcare (CHC) team. We require a registerednurse (RGN, RMN) to support our dynamic and welcoming Continuing Healthcareteam.

The Sheffield CHC team are an innovative and friendly team who deliver a service to thepopulation of Sheffield. This is a greatopportunity to be involved in a team, who are working with the Local Authorityand other partner organisations, towards a more integrated approach in how weassess and meet an individuals ongoing care needs.

We are looking for an experiencedregistered nurse to work within the CHC team as Senior Nurse Case manager. Our nurses look at the whole process, byfirst determining eligibility for NHS funding through utilisation of theDecision Support Tool (DST), procuring and reviewing care needs and care managing accordingto individuals requirements. The work is at times challenging but also veryrewarding. There are furtheropportunities to work in our other sub-teams to support service delivery.

If you have excellent communicationskills and a motivation to succeed, we will welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for coordinating the Multi-disciplinary team (MDT)eligibility assessment of an individuals needs in regard to eligibility forCHC.

Identifying and securing the involvement of the MDTwhich will assess the individuals needs and will then use this information tocomplete the DST supporting MDT members to understandthe role they will need to undertake in participating in a multidisciplinaryassessment and completing the DST.

Facilitating CHC assessments forpatients across all aspects of care.This necessitates a high level of assessment skills and requiring tact,diplomacy and the ability to liaise effectively with colleagues, health careprofessionals, patients' carers and family members. The post holder willrequire Registered Nurse qualification.

Supporting the person (and those who may be representingthem) to play a full role in the eligibility consideration process, includingensuring that they understand the process, they have access to advocacy orother support where required, and organising the overall process in a mannerthat maximises their ability to participate.

Providing highly specialistadvice in relation to the National Framework for CHC eligibility in complex situations, necessating a high level of interpersonaland communication skills. This includescare procurement incorporating personal health budgets, and ongoing caremanagement and reviews of eligible individuals and providing information in atimely manner.

About us

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees healthand social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on thestrengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our localcommunities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes inpopulation health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experienceand access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHSsupport broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broaderhealth, public health, and social care needs of the population across SouthYorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with theIntegrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the SouthYorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and careservices that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GPpractices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals workingacross seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We workalongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSEpartners and other partners to address health inequalities and widerdeterminants of health in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer

Job responsibilities

As above including:

Ensuring that there is a clear timetable for thedecision-making process, and DST processes are completed in accordance with the requirements in the National Framework.

Ensuring that there is a clear timetable for thedecision-making process, having regard to the expectation that decisions should usually be made within 28 days of the Checklist being received.

Acting as an impartial resource to the MDT and theindividual on any policy or procedure questions that arise

Ensuring that the MDTs recommendation on eligibilityis sent for ratification through the relevant local decision-making processes in a timelymanner

Ensuring timely "End of life" care procurementand ongoing management for individual eligible for the Fast Track pathwaywithin the CHC service.

Completing CHC / FNC / Joint Funded / Fastrack reviewsin a timely manner in line with the national framework. As a care manager, willco-ordinate and undertake ongoing care package reviews for individuals and liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that the package is able to meet needs safely and in accordance with Sheffields Commissioning CarePrinciples for those who are eligible.

Ability to communicate complex information and handlesensitive conversations in a way which supports understanding of the recipient.

Providing relevant continuing healthcare advice to secondary care, primary care, nursing homes etc. in relation to the continuinghealthcare process. Developing and maintaining effective and appropriate communication networks with health and social care professionals and act as aresource to them.

Interpreting national and regional guidance relating to the implementation of the National Framework and subsequent developments within the CHC service.

Exercising professional judgement as necessary when communicating information on behalf of the CHC service and application of the associated criteria.

Working with relevant health professionals, CHC colleagues, business support staff, senior leads and other support staff withinthe CHC team to ensure delivery of quality premiums and products required.

Delivering specialist formal and non-formal educationprograms to Community and hospital staff including nursing/residential homes, GPs, community nursing and therapy staff relating to the assessment and management of CHC patient groups in line with the latest research, evidence and DHSC/NICE guidance.

It is expected that care managers will operate as part of a wider team, providing cover for each other's caseloads during periods of leave (absence) and an ongoing inter-team support network, ensuring the needs of the whole patient group are met with a consistent and best practice orientated approach.

The post holder will hold and manage an active caseload, providing care management for individuals who are eligible for full NHSfunding in order to meet their identified care needs.

The post holder will be involved in identifying appropriatecare placements and setting up a package of care delivery to meet identifiedassessed care needs. They will presentthese to the ICB Sheffield resource panel to inform and advise how an individual's identified care needs can be met.

The post holder will represent individuals who are caremanaged, attending MDT meetings, at times instigating and leading on the same meetings, around decision making processes, such as assessment of mentalcapacity and best interest decision making.

The post holder will take an active role in riskmanagement and safeguarding of all individuals on their active caseload, liaising with other professionals and attending meetings as and when required.

The post holder will be required to be an autonomouspractitioner, able to work independently and routinely travel significant distances both within and out of Sheffield as the needs of the case load require.

As an experienced member of the Continuing healthcareteam the post holder will be able to provide guidance, training and support to other team members.

The Sheffield Continuing Healthcare team can take students; the post holder will be expected to work with and support the students and act as a mentor to them.

Ensure adherence to relevant confidentiality and GDPR regulations at all times, and meeting of NMC code of conduct around recordkeeping and management

Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of NHS SYICB, comply with all the requirements of these policies and also actively promote Equality and Diversity issues relevant to the post.

Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candor are observed and upheld in all working practices.

The post holder will have, or acquire through training provided by the organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge, skills and practice required for the post and be aware of and comply with the organisations safeguarding protection policies and procedures.

Ensure that any infectionprevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/Infection Prevention and Control

Person Specification

Skills and Competencies

• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads based on changing and often tight deadlines.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Able to deal with challenging people and to cope with confidential and sensitive information.
• Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, on complex matters and difficult situations.
• Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately from or to diverse audiences.
• Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate complex issues, and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues.
• Knowledge and use of a range of software i.e. Microsoft Office.

Experience

• Relevant Clinical or Professional Experience in relation to the role and level of autonomy.
• Experience of building productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of identifying risks, issues and dependencies.
• Experience in planning, preparing, monitoring and reporting of project plans to progress.
• Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
• Previous experience in a healthcare or public sector environment.
• A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
• Experience in supporting project/programmes.
• Experience of building productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of how projects run.

Qualifications

• Required to have a Nurse Registration/Professional Registration.
• Educated to a degree level or equivalent or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma level in project management.

Attributes

• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
• Professional calm and efficient manner.
• Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• Adaptability, flexibility to work and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
• Ability to change ways of working to aid cooperation within and between teams in order to achieve results.
• Fosters good working relationships and values difference.

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.

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