Job overview

CHC Senior Assessor is a highly experienced practitioner who provides advanced clinical expertise and leadership across the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) pathway.

The postholder takes responsibility for completing and overseeing complex CHC assessments, ensuring that eligibility recommendations are clinically robust, person-centred, and fully aligned to the National Framework. This role goes beyond frontline assessment.

The Senior Assessor supports practitioners, offers specialist guidance on difficult or ambiguous cases, and contributes to quality assurance across the service. They play a key part in strengthening documentation standards, improving clinical rationale within Decision Support Tools, and promoting consistent, defensible decision-making.

The postholder works closely with multidisciplinary teams, local authorities, providers, and system partners to ensure joined-up assessments and clear communication with individuals and families. They help navigate clinical, legal, and emotional complexity, supporting fair outcomes and maintaining confidence in the CHC process. As a senior clinician within the service, the Senior Assessor also contributes to training, capability building, and continuous improvement. They identify gaps in practice, support reflective learning, and help embed a high-quality, learning-focused culture across the CHC team.

Main duties of the job

•Undertake complex CHC assessments, completing high-quality Decision Support Tools, rationales, and recommendations in line with the National Framework.
•Provide senior clinical advice and guidance to CHC practitioners on challenging or ambiguous cases.
•Quality-assure assessment documentation, evidence gathering, and rationale writing to support defensible and consistent eligibility decisions.
•Support and contribute to CHC panels, MDT meetings, and case discussions, offering expert clinical input.
•Act as a point of escalation for practitioners seeking support with clinical reasoning, risk issues, or complex presentations.
•Mentor and coach less experienced staff, helping build capability and confidence across the CHC team.
•Identify practice variation or quality concerns and contribute to targeted improvement activity.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people’s differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.

We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristic. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone, including making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition and support with the recruitment process for people with lived experience.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.

We operate a Carer friendly working environment that is supportive and inclusive. We actively encourage Carers to self-identify themselves.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and commit to shortlisting suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please inform us of any adjustments you may require.