Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Practitioner Leyland, England
Job description
Nurse/Paramedic/Social Worker/Healthcare professional. Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you looking to broaden your existing skills and knowledge around continuing healthcare, individual patient activity, personal health budgets and funded nursing care?
We have a number of fixed term contract posts for a Band 5 CHC Practitioner, working across various sites around the Midlands and Lancashire regions including Lancashire, Cumbria, Merseyside, Southport, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Shropshire. This is an opportunity to join a new centralised review team. Duties will include reviewing patients with complex care needs who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding or NHS-funded nursing care.
The posts are agile with a requirement to attend the office as and when required and there will also be a requirement to complete some assessments face to face.
A vehicle for the purpose of business travel is essential for this role.
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans, and military families bring to our business and would encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.
This is an exciting opportunity for career development and an ideal chance to enhance and utilise your clinical skills. You will need to be a highly motivated individual looking for a new challenge and should enjoy coordinating and communicating with a wide range of people. The candidate should have knowledge of the NHS Framework for Continuing Healthcare.
The successful candidate will provide specialist assessment and review for adults and older people presenting with long-term care needs who may be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS-funded nursing care and jointly funded packages of care in line with the NHS Framework for Continuing Healthcare.
Experience of undertaking assessments, and working with patients, families and carers is essential. The Personalised Healthcare Team are responsible for the assessment and review of people who reside in nursing care homes and the clinical commissioning of packages of care for people with continuing healthcare needs who reside in their own homes.
If you want to be part of an inclusive, diverse and forward thinking team who put patients at the heart of all we do and where staff development is as important to us as it is you, contact us for an informal chat or apply using the link. We'd love to hear from you
The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe. It’s a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is one of the biggest and best-performing commissioning support units in the country, with among the highest levels of staff and customer satisfaction. We work together as a team of over 1,600 expert staff based across the Midlands and North West to make a difference – for our customers, patients and communities.
Offering a full range of professional services to hospital trusts, local authorities, integrated care systems (ICSs) and other public bodies across the country, our NHS values underpin everything we do.
This post will be working across various localities including Lancashire, Cumbria, Merseyside, Southport, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Shropshire on a fixed term contract
We provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment.
Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme and generous annual leave allowance.
With our training schemes and support networks, you will be empowered to play a leading role in the future of healthcare, whatever your specialism or interest. And as a member of NHS staff you will receive plenty of discounts too.
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.
Key Working Relationships:
- Personalised Healthcare Commissioning Team
- Personalised Healthcare Commissioning Team members
- Safeguarding teams
- Local Authority
- Service users and relatives
- Solicitors and other legal representatives
- Care providers from all sectors e.g. care homes, NHS Hospital Trusts
- Quality assurance Team
- Finance team
- Human Resources
- PALs team
- Brokerage team (this list is not exhaustive)
- Communicating information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports
- Maintaining constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
- Working closely with care providers involved in delivery of the service
- Providing coordination of, and participating in, meetings and providing information, advice and support as required
- Assisting and supporting individuals and representatives in relation to the Personalised Healthcare process
- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of legislation, policies and guidance
- Providing relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters relating to the service
- Supporting investigations into an individual’s eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare following an individual challenge or dispute
- Working with members of the team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions
- Contribute to maintenance and monitoring of service standards around quality
- Supporting the Personalised Healthcare team to ensure that workstream plans are fulfilled and supervised effectively to ensure successful delivery
- Keyboard skills
- Access to vehicle for occasional travel between sites
- Managing a caseload of patients
- Ensure the principles and duties of safeguarding are holistically and consistently applied
- Supporting the arrangement of services required to meet the needs of individuals who qualify for NHS Continuing Healthcare and for the healthcare element of a joint care package
- Fostering transparency and a person-centred approach with patients, families and representatives
- Ensure the principles and duties of safeguarding are holistically, consistently and contentiously applied
- Working within a team of Personalised Healthcare Assessors, ensuring a high-quality service is delivered, supporting and mentoring and supporting staff to achieve continuous improvement.
- Ensuring Personalised Healthcare guidance is followed and services are delivered to maximise patient safety
- Actively supporting the Personalised Healthcare team in working towards goals and objectives
- Contribute to maintenance and monitoring of service standards around quality
- Comply with NHS Codes of Conduct and Standard Business Conduct and/or NHS Trust Standards of Business Conduct policies
- Knowledge of Personal Health Budget process
- Managing staff in line with regional and local HR policies
- Mentoring and supervision of students
- Providing accurate and legible recording of information
- Ensuring data systems are kept up to date and maintained in line with standard operating policy and procedures
- Participate in relevant internal surveys
- Comply with NHS Codes of Conduct and Standard Business Conduct and/or NHS Trust Standards of Business Conduct policies
- Assisting in the facilitating of multi-disciplinary assessments and patient reviews in line with standard operating procedures
- Supporting the Senior Practitioner to ensure that all processes implemented are compliant with the NHS Continuing Healthcare National Framework
- Assisting in the management of cases as directed by the Senior Practitioner and the Team Lead
- Delivering against objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines
- The post holder will be responsible for ensuring their mandatory training is up-to-date
