Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Nurse Assessor
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 491-SWLCHC085-A
- Employer
- NHS South West London Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWL CHC (C&S) Team (554500) L4
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 Per Annum Inclusive of Outer HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Nurse Assessor
NHS AFC: Band 7
Job overview
The Senior Nurse Assessor will lead and manage a team of assessors who administer and undertake assessment of the patient’s eligibility for Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and Funded Nursing Care (FNC) in order to plan and commission appropriate care packages to meet their needs, monitor that the care packages continue to meet their needs and review the planned care to ensure it provides a high standard of quality and safety.
If the post requires either professional registration or membership of relevant body. please specify the professional body
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for a team delivering assessments of individual’s eligibility for Continuing Healthcare and Funded Nursing Care and for reviewing care packages for existing patients. The post holder will ensure that assessments and reviews are carried out in a timely manner according to national specifications.
The post holder will work with all stakeholders including patients and, where relevant, their families, to ensure that funding decisions are taken in a transparent and coherent manner.
The post holder will ensure that the assessor team keep accurate records and are able to demonstrate that funding recommendations are evidence based and made according to the criteria described within national CHC frameworks.
Working for our organisation
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB), as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:
- an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services
- an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
- to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;
- tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
- enhance productivity and value for money and;
- help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description for full details
Duties and Responsibilities
The post holder will contribute to the clinical management function of the CHC service, forming part of a senior duty roster to handle fast track applications, review checklist referrals, manage complex cases and sign off assessment ratifications.
The post holder will ensure that all care plans are in place which are up to dayte and support the client’s current care needs. They will also ensure there is a regular review process in place for the care plans and where these have not been updated or are omitted from the client’s file, they will ensure they are in place promptly. Further to this, the individual will ensure that where a need for on-going referral to another specialist is required (e.g. DOLs, Safeguarding, SALT, OT, CHIT, Community LD specialist Team), that this is completely promptly, with the outcome of any referrals being included in the CHC assessment as deemed appropriate.
Person specification
Education /Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (adult)
- Current & relevant NMC registration
- Degree or equivalent level of experience in health or social care
- Academic/professional qualification at higher degree level or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge of CHC national and local policy
- Experience and understanding of Change Management
- Knowledge of Service Performance Management and driving performance by using complex data
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary
Other
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates commitment to NHS and organisational values and behaviours
- Demonstrate commitment and role model behaviours and actions that support equality, diversity, belonging and inclusion.
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mobola Shadiya
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Lead / Deputy Head of CHC
- Email address
- [email protected]
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