Main area All Age Continuing Care CHC Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am- 5pm.) Job ref 468-HWE474
Employer NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. The Forum I Marlows I Hemel Hempstead I HP1 1DN Town Hemel Hempstead Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum plus 5% HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 23/09/2025 23:59
Lead PHB Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The post holder will support the Personal Health Budget Lead to implement Personal Health Budgets across the service area.
The post holder will work with patients and their representatives to ensure that their health and wellbeing outcomes are met by ensuring that they have choice in how they manage their care and support.
The post holder will actively engage with All Age Continuing Care staff, community nurses, and providers to deliver advice, support and training.
The post holder will also support the development and implementation of Personal Health Budgets to wider groups of people as directed. Providing clinical challenge when a Personal Health Budget is offered to groups outside of All Age Continuing Care, including Mental Health and Children.
Main duties of the job
The Post Holder will:
Be responsible for managing phone and email queries where clinical input is required.
Meet with individuals and their families that are interested in taking a Personal Health Budget.
Encourage creative and personalised ways for people to meet their needs.
Assess care plans to ensure they will meet patients clinical needs.
Attend panels to present and discuss support plans, and any funding that may be required for a Personal Health Budget.
Undertake and produce documentation around risk assessments.
Review Personal Health Budgets and produce reports
Caseload will be made up of all CHC Eligible service users who accept a Personal Health Budget.
Responsible for setting up Notional and Direct Payments for all Personal Health Budget Holders.
Communicate difficult decisions to patients and their representatives in a way that upholds the values of HWE ICB.
Deal with challenges from other professionals, including senior staff, GPs and consultants.
Adapt communications to suit individual need and preferences.
Support the administrative functions of the Personalisation Team as needed.
Work in a personalised way that puts patients and their representatives at the centre of all decisions that are made.
Maintain patient tracker to track referrals for PHB through the entire process and use this information to improve the patient pathway.
Attend events to raise the profile of PHB with HWE ICB stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
Here at Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board, we're responsible for planning and overseeing how NHS money is spent to support the people who live in Hertfordshire and west Essex.
We have around 750 employees and our role is to make sure health services work well and are of high quality as well as value for money.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.
Please note this is a Band 7 AFC subject to Job evaluation Outcome
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
* 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
* 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
* Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
* Experience of identifying and contributing to safeguarding concerns
* Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
* Experience of managing risks and reporting
* Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
* Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
* Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
* Understanding of the public sector
* Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
* Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
Communication Skills
* 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
Analytical
* 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
* Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
* Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
* Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Planning Skills
* 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.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, health issue or a life event, please let us know so that we can consider your application fairly and get the best out of you during the selection process.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship, so you'll need to be able to demonstrate your right to work in the UK during the recruitment process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Frances O'Sullivan Job title CYPCC Lead Email address frances.o'sullivan@nhs.net Telephone number 07341739439 Additional information
All Age Continuing Care Team.
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB.
The Forum I Marlows I Hemel Hempstead I HP1 1DN
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