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Job summary

Main area
PHB Nurse
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am to 5pm)
Job ref
468-HWE475
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
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum plus 5% HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/09/2025 23:59
Interview date
13/10/2025

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PHB Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

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.

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 Band 6 AFC subject to job evaluation.

Person specification

PHB and CHC knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Evidence they have PHB experience

PHB background

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of Personal Health Budgets
Desirable criteria
  • CHC knowledge

CHC and Personal Health Budget knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Extensive knowledge of CHC specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Working knowledgeable of Who Pays Guidance 2020

CHC

Essential criteria
  • Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances. Inputs to strategic plans across the NHS and within the specific teams. Works with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation and opening up the market. Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines Proven track record of involving stakeholders in the planning of modernisation and monitoring of services. Previous experience of effective planning and commissioning of the relevant to CHC. Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Menopause Friendly EmployerAge-Friendly Employer PledgeDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingCare Confident Employer

Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Frances O'Sullivan
Job title
CYPCC Lead
Email address
frances.o'[email protected]
Additional information

Sharon Newman 07852168498

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