Job Title: Continuing Healthcare Nurse Band 6
Trust: Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
Location: Various Locations -
Blackpool, Hyndburn, Blackburn with Darwen, Preston, Wyre, West Lancashire, Lancashire & South Lakeland
Pay Rates: 21.57
Shift Patterns: 37.5 hours Days Mon-Fri
Part Time hours 24+ hours considered
Trust info
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria 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.
At Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, we are committed to fostering a culture that is ambitious, appreciative and resilient. We believe in a “can do” attitude, where every challenge is an opportunity for growth and improvement. Our intent is to deliver our plans effectively and efficiently, ensuring that we become an organisation that serves our communities with excellence.
Why might this job interest you?
Being a continuing Healthcare Nurse Assessor in the NHS is a versatile and impactful role that spans across various healthcare settings, from hospitals to community. It involves providing comprehensive care to patients of all ages and backgrounds, addressing both acute medical needs and long-term health management. The flexibility in scheduling allows general nurses to balance their professional responsibilities with personal commitments, ensuring they can deliver compassionate and effective care while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
What you can add:
- This role identifies and assesses the primary healthcare needs of patients to determine whether they are eligible for funding either through Funded Nursing Care or Continuing Healthcare
- Support teams to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively
- Support and inform the targeting of resources, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the tasks/projects by providing high quality support including complex information and analysis, communications and stakeholder management.
- Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues and senior management as appropriate
- Members of the public and service users as appropriate
- External staff from partner organisations and other NHS trusts
- Non-NHS organisations
- To work with provider services to assist in the development of competent assessors to undertake assessments and reviews.
- Manage day to day communication with other team members within the continuing healthcare team
- To provide contemporaneous records on all clients and reports as necessary adhering to NMC standards for record keeping.
- Responsible for collating evidence and information for the Decision Support Tool and liaising with the multidisciplinary team in order for a team recommendation to be made for eligibility for Continuing Healthcare funding.
- Present information for panel deliberation.
The role will involve but not be limited to you performing the above.
You’ll have the following qualification/experience:
- A minimum of 6 months experience with an ICB or CCG
- Registered Nurse with valid NMC Registration
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Knowledge and understanding of current national and local policy/Framework Guidance relating to NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care
- Awareness of current legislation in relation to Health and social Care for older people
- Knowledge and experience of working with Safeguarding issues and Policy guidance
- Experience of working with patients with multiple /complex needs
- Experience of working across organisations, local authority, other NHS Trusts, voluntary and independent sectors
*Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills.
The benefits we can offer you in return:
Putting People in Places to Care – be part of the NHSP community, by joining the bank and caring for patients with a team of people from all walks of life.
Weekly pay to give you access to your wages more quickly.
Blue Light Card – NHS Discount Provider
First choice of shifts/placements at the Trust of your choice over agencies.
Our team is always happy to help - access our support line any time.
Working options to suit your lifestyle – being on the bank gives you the flexibility to work the shifts you want or choose fixed term placements.
Training and development opportunities via the Trust and NHSP’s own academy.
Explore different wards, keep your skills up to date whilst gaining vital experience.
Being part of the NHSP Community means you’ll get access to member activities such as member of the month, member appreciation week, key date giveaways, webinar series and much more.
Who are NHS Professionals?
NHS Professionals is a flexible staff bank, owned by the Department of Health, our purpose is to provide you with the autonomy to decide when, how, and where you want to work. Supporting your lifestyle and making you feel part of the team and community. Offering you flexible work or alternatively fixed term placements.
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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts or fixed term placements across any of our client Trusts in England.
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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: £21.57 per hour
Experience:
- Nursing: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- NMC (required)
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
