Healthcare Practitioner - All Age Continuing in Bracknell

We have a rewarding opportunity for a dedicated Healthcare Practitioner - All Age Continuing to join our team on a full time, permanent basis, working as part of a collaborative and compassionate service. At Bracknell Forest, we pride ourselves on being a council which is stable and well-managed where our employees can thrive in a supportive environment. We understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance and offer a variety of flexible working practices, including options for remote working and arrangements that allow you to work from home, dependent on the needs of the service.

If you would like an informal chat or a tour of the office prior to submitting your application, please contact Wendy.Gower@Bracknell-forest.gov.uk to arrange a suitable time.

As the dedicated Healthcare Practitioner - All Age Continuing, you will play a key role as part of a small specialist team providing advice and support across all our social care teams in adults and children. Whether your background is social care or health, you will apply your practical knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and its complex interface with NHS Continuing Healthcare eligibility in relation to the end-to-end CHC screening and assessment process, ensuring fair access to appropriate health funding streams for Bracknell Forest Council and Bracknell Residents. You will need strong analytical skills to gather and use information from a range of health and social care reports and assessments and an ability to professionally challenge when required.

This is a new post in the small, friendly Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Team who ensure best practice in all work related to CHC. We have established strong working relationships with our local ICB (Integrated Care Board) partners and jointly deliver CHC training with the ICB in addition to inhouse CHC training. The team work with health partners, care providers, other Local Authority CHC Leads and all social care teams across the council up to senior/director level.

Key responsibilities

• Supporting the All Age Continuing Healthcare Manager to work across all social care teams, providing technical advice in relation to the National Framework for NHS CHC and FNC (2022) and its interface with other legislation e.g. Mental Health Act, Care Act 2014 and develop best practice, including preparation for CHC assessments through analysis of multiple sources of complex information including health reports/records.
• Represent social care at multi-disciplinary CHC assessments, recording the outcome of work including updating excel spreadsheets, keeping accurate electronic records and maintaining the appropriate databases to enable the team to provide management information and reports on CHC activity and performance to the Directorate Management Team and Senior Leadership Team.
• In absence of Team Manager liaise with Team Managers to deliver progress reports, make recommendations on CHC cases and represent the service meetings across the council e.g. Childrens Step Down Panel, Approaching Adulthood Operational panel and Team Meetings.
• Support the CHC Team in the delivery of quarterly CHC training to council and NHS staff to improve knowledge and best practice standard of CHC work and to enable staff to be confident in this area of work and any ad hoc training as necessary.
• Build effective working relationships, ensuring appropriate consultation and engagement with key stakeholders within the council, external partners across the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Local Authorities across Southeast England.

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