Nurse Assessor

Contract - Permanent
- Full-time 37.5 hours per week

The CHC Assessor will be responsible for ensuring that those who in are receiving funding from Continuing health care either in part or whole assessments either in nursing homes or their own homes are reviewed and assessed using nationally recognised tools.

The post holder will review both their care packages & needs at prescribed intervals or when requested by care home mangers where the client's condition has changed.

The CHC Nurse assessor will be a valuable component of the developing Continuing Care team. The CHC assessor will be responsible for coordinating reviews for those who are eligible for Continuing Healthcare or Funded Nursing Care.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

The post holder will review both their care packages & needs at prescribed intervals or when requested by care home mangers where the clients condition has changed.

Please see attached job description.

• Nursing Qualification
• 2 years' experience of community nursing

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Clinical/Research based skills
• Understanding of quality standards and audit
• Public Health Awareness

• National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare (Oct 2018)
• A familiarity with the role of Nursing care in a residential setting.
• Current Nursing Initiatives
• Multidisciplinary approach
• The role of the CQC in nursing home inspections
• National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare (Oct 2018)
• The role of the CQC in nursing home inspections
• Organisational, communication and team working skills
• Management of stress in self and others
• Prioritising Caseload
• Management of change

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£37,259 to £45,356 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS

Permanent

Full-time

220-WHT-3496-A