Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Clinical Assessor
The closing date is 24 May 2026
Thrive on advocating for your patients and negotiating the best outcomes? Great clinical assessment and case management skills? If this describes you... then read on!
We are excited to announce new opportunities within our Hampshire and Isle of Wight All Age Continuing Care Specialist s117 Aftercare and Acquired Brain Injury Team. We are looking for people who are passionate about patient care and improving life opportunities who share our behaviours of being person centred, honest, courageous, innovative, and collaborative. Posts are available working across Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight.
Please note this is a secondment opportunity but we also have permanent positions available.
Main duties of the job
Main responsibilities
* Conducting annual reviews and applying principles of positive risk taking, strengths-based approach and least restrictive practice to packages of care
* Supporting the Multi-Disciplinary Team to screen and approve new funding applications
* Participating in discharge planning meetings, Care Programme Approach and Care and Treatment Reviews
* Providing proactive case management to individual complex and rehabilitation clients
* Facilitating timely discharges from acute hospitals and placements where clients are no longer gaining benefit from that service
Main attributes
* You will be highly organised, flexible and have a positive 'can do' attitude.
* Be highly motivated and keen to learn/develop
* Be accustomed to a high degree of autonomy on a day-to-day basis
* Be able to assimilate large amounts of information and have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with attention to detail
* Ability to develop relationships and foster effective networks with key stakeholders, families and carers
* Be able to assess and prescribe care dependent on the individuals holistic health and care needs
* Have a strong value set around quality and patient/carer experience
* Have excellent time management skills and thrive on working at pace
* Have excellent knowledge of Microsoft office and have intermediate typing skills
* Be local or be able to commit to regular onsite working and be able to travel daily across the county and occasionally countrywide
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Clinical Assessor/Practitioner (Registered Mental Health Nurse, Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse or SWE registration with mental health specialism) in Specialist s117 Aftercare, you will be responsible for supporting clients who require care, treatment and support under the Mental Health Act, conducting comprehensive individual assessments of clients, case managing clients to ensure that their needs are effectively met and promoting Personal Health Budgets and personalisation to empower people with mental health needs to live their best lives.
You will need to have excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills to establish good rapport with people with Mental Health, Autism or both and an ability to make decisions in a challenging but supportive environment. As part of the role, you will have the opportunity to 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.
The successful candidate will be able to use specialist knowledge and clinical skills to ensure that coordination and outcomes are determined in a consistent manner to ensure effective application and interpretation of the MHA S117.
Whilst experience in the Mental Health Act would be helpful, if you have the right skills and attitude, we can support you to develop the specific skills required. The Trust has a suite of educational opportunities to develop skills and we offer team training opportunities and Team Leaders who are non-case holding in order to mentor and develop our Clinical Assessors with complex cases, including safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and Court of Protection. You will be part of a wider All Age team, comprising administration, brokerage, commissioners, Deprivation of Liberty experts, proportionate care practitioners and case practitioners who provide a wide range of expertise and support. If you are looking for your next opportunity, this could be it. Working within All Age Continuing Care teams really develops and diversifies your skills.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Qualifications
* Registered Health or Social Care Professional with current registration with professional body i.e. NMC or SWE, including mental health social workers
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in health or social care
Experience
* Experience of assessment of health and social care needs – care planning and coordination.
* Knowledge and relevant experience working with individuals who are autistic and/or have learning disabilities and/or mental health issues (LD/MH/LDAP team roles).
* Knowledge of complex neurological conditions and experience of working with clients with complex brain injuries. Specific knowledge of the National Service Frameworks and appropriate national policy related to rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury/neurological dysfunction (Specialist Rehabilitation / ABI team).
* Experience of working effectively under stressful conditions in a rapidly changing environment.
* Demonstrable experience of care/case management.
* Knowledge of and experience of NHS Funded Continuing Health Care criteria – guidance and policies and other legal frameworks as required (Children and Complex Care, s117 Aftercare, Mental Health Act).
* Experience of developing care packages.
* Experience of implementing and managing Personal Health Budgets.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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