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Herts & West Essex Integrated Care Board (HWE ICB) is looking for an experienced All Age Continuing Care Efficiency, PUPOC and Verification Nurse who has specialised knowledge and experience of working with individuals with complex care needs. You will have worked in either a specialised or community setting with experience of the Continuing Healthcare process. With knowledge and experiencing in Previously Un-assessed Periods of Care (PUPOC), Verification and project management.

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Quality verification and audit for efficiency and PUPOC cases
• Retrospective request clinical management and oversight
• The presentation of recommendations and issues to Panels when there is dispute in interpreting the continuing care criteria and in very complex or expensive cases.
• Carry out reviews and assessments
• Provide professional advice to patients, carers and multi-agency colleagues, including signposting to appropriate services and resources.
• Understand financial and efficiency planning and processes.
• An in depth understanding of Retrospective national policy and process.

The role will require a high level of communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work supportively and effectively with individuals and their families ensuring that they are fully involved throughout the process.

If you have the energy, enthusiasm, values and drive that are required for this post we invite you to apply.

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

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.

The position is based at our Hemel Hempstead site. Travel to other offices located at Hemel Hempstead and Harlow may also be required.

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

• Subject to Job Evaluation

• Registered Nurse (Adult or Mental Health) - with current registration
• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Experience of Retrospective policies
• Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project

• Experience of working in the NHS/public body
• Evidence of working knowledge of CHC
• Excellent understanding of the current issues impacting on the NHS, governance, policy and an experience of its implications so as to interpret and communicate them locally
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
• Experience of managing risks and reporting

• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
• Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders

• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making

• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.

• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum plus 5% HCA