Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Registered learning Disability Nurse (RNLD) Registered Mental health Nurse (RMN) or Registered General Nurse (RGN) to work as a CHC Nurse Assessor within the Northamptonshire area. This community based post offers the opportunity to enhance assessment and decision-making skills in a challenging but supportive environment.

As a Band 6 CHC Nurse Assessor you will be responsible for determining the eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding through new assessments, review assessments and appeals, in accordance with the National Continuing Health Care Framework.

Furthermore, you will be responsible for ensuring your patients go through the CHC process smoothly and efficiently, thereby enabling timely provision of appropriate, high quality care. You will communicate and 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.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to a Band 7 CHC Clinical Nurse specialist, the Band 6 CHC Nurse Assessor will:

• Be highly motivated and keen to learn/develop (training in respect of the NHS CHC Framework and its application will be provided as part of induction);
• Be accustomed to a high degree of autonomy on a day to day basis;
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with attention to detail;
• Have excellent people management skills with experience of difficult situations and challenging individuals and the ability to manage these effectively and calmly;
• Be comfortable working with a wide variety of ages and individuals with very different clinical conditions.
• Be able to prescribe care dependent of the individuals health needs.
• Have a strong value set around quality and patient/career experience.
• Have excellent time management skills and thrive on working at pace.
• Have excellent knowledge of Microsoft office and have intermediate typing skills.
• Be comfortable with changes at short notice
• Be able to travel daily across the county and occasionally countrywide

Working for our organisation

We are a multi award-winning organisation that has achieved the prestigious Investors in People Gold Award for ‘We invest in people’ and ‘We invest in wellbeing’ and are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We believe that every team member should have the opportunity to contribute and share their ideas.

We reward the hard work and commitment of our people with the following benefits:

• A competitive salary with annual pay reviews
• A generous annual leave entitlement starting at 27 days
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies, including enhanced parental leave and pay
• A wide range of in-house and external learning and development opportunities
• Access to salary sacrifice and discount schemes
• Access to employee assistance and occupational health services.