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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Registered General Nurse (RGN) or Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) to work as a CHC Nurse Assessor within the Northamptonshire area. This community based post offers the opportunity to enhance assessment and decision-making skills in a challenging but supportive environment.
The posts are being recruited at an initial 6-12 month fixed term contract.
As a Band 6 CHC Nurse Assessor you will be responsible for determining the eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding through new assessments, review assessments and appeals, in accordance with the National Continuing Health Care Framework.
Furthermore, you will be responsible for ensuring your patients go through the CHC process smoothly and efficiently, thereby enabling timely provision of appropriate, high quality care. You will communicate and develop strong links with health and social care colleagues to ensure effective multi-disciplinary working and develop a strong understanding of local NHS and independent sector service provision in individual’s own homes and in care homes.
Reporting to a Band 7 CHC Clinical Nurse specialist, the Band 6 CHC Nurse Assessor will:
* Be highly motivated and keen to learn/develop (training in respect of the NHS CHC Framework and its application will be provided as part of induction);
* Be accustomed to a high degree of autonomy on a day to day basis;
* Have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with attention to detail;
* Have excellent people management skills with experience of difficult situations and challenging individuals and the ability to manage these effectively and calmly;
* Be comfortable working with a wide variety of ages and individuals with very different clinical conditions.
* Be able to prescribe care dependent of the individuals health needs.
* Have a strong value set around quality and patient/career experience.
* Have excellent time management skills and thrive on working at pace.
* Have excellent knowledge of Microsoft office and have intermediate typing skills.
* Be comfortable with changes at short notice
* Be bale to travel daily across the county and occasionally countrywide
The organisation is seeking to promote the employment of disabled people and will make any adjustments considered reasonable to the above duties under the terms of the Equality Act 2010 to accommodate a suitable disabled candidate.
The organisation is committed to offering flexible, modern employment practices, which recognise that all staff need to strike a sensible balance between home and work life. All requests to work flexibly will be considered.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Leah Hooton Job title: CHC Nurse Specialist Email address: leah.hooton1@nhs.net Telephone number: 07423 784068
Please contact me in working hours and I will respond to any requests for information.
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