Job overview

The post holder will actively coordinate and case manage the commissioning of Continuing Healthcare services focussing on complex cases including Mental Health, across Oldham who are primarily placed in appropriate care settings, under the Mental Health Act, or receiving community care packages under section 117 aftercare arrangements. The case load will compromise both working age adults and over 65’s

This will be undertaken by leading and coordinating key professionals across Health services, Local Authority and the Independent Sector to ensure that effective commissioning of service provision occurs and that once established, is monitored and reviewed to deliver measurable goals and outcomes for the service user and NHS Greater Manchester ICB (Oldham locality)

Main duties of the job

·       The post holder will act as Individualised Commissioning Nurse/Practitioner for a defined caseload of patients whose care is either jointly or solely funded by NHS GM  and the care is provided by the independent sector, private hospitals or locally commissioned providers.

·       Identify and case manage any clients in a nursing home who may be eligible for NHS funding ie CHC, FNC or s117; to chair and coordinate eligibility assessments and reviews.  This includes representing NHS GM in the ratification of decisions for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing care and on duty.

·       Act as Commissioning Case Manager for all individualised commissioned placements, purchased by NHS GM.

·       Conduct contractual monitoring ensuring that contracts in place for individual clients in receipt of NHS funding are being adhered to as well as supporting and enabling providers to improve the quality-of-care delivery.

·       Provide expert advice to other professionals commissioned to provide care in relation to NHS Individualised Commissioning.

·       Jointly conduct contract performance visits to ensure contractual obligations and quality care standards are being met.

Working for our organisation

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care 

Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in the neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.

Our NHS People Promise

Our NHS People Promise – The promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.