LD Specialist Nurse Assessor (Sutton) in London

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of clients with Learning Disabilities in any setting (i.e. home, acute settings, residential settings) to determine eligibility to receive Fully Funded NHS Continuing Healthcare [CHC] or Funded Nursing Care [FNC]. The post holder will act as senior nurse assessor/co-ordinator of a Multidisciplinary Team to establish eligibility and, working with the client and their family, identify a suitable care package. They will ensure the review process of all Funded Nursing Care/Continuing Healthcare is undertaken in accordance with the National Framework Guidance for Continuing Healthcare (revised 2018). The post holder will ensure that assessments and reviews are carried out in a timely manner according to the local KPIs in order to meet the national performance targets. The post holder will form part of the senior nurse assessor team for the CHC team, ensuring that clients receive high quality care and provide specialist advice regarding Learning Disabilities to the CHC team. The post holder will also lead on ensuring all clients with a Learning Disability who have care delivered through a Personal Health Budget, have appropriate care and support plans in place, and will support in the management of the PHB, resolving issues as they arise.

Main duties of the job

• Support the Continuing Healthcare team to ensure that the CHC and FNC work-stream is planned and managed effectively, taking a lead in assisting in their successful delivery.
• Establish and maintain communication networks with care home staff, social services, community staff and hospital MDT in delivering CHC assessments and complex case management.
• Maintain effective communication on issues in complex situations arising from the CHC criteria, CHC processes and outcomes.
• Prioritise workload and team activity responding to service demands/policy changes. Ensure effective balance between clinical and administrative activities.

Job responsibilities

• Undertake, critique and facilitate robust clinical assessment/reviews to enable transparent and appropriate funding decisions to be made using expert knowledge of the National Framework.
• Manage the LD caseload and ensure correct processes are followed in delivery of the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare & NHS Funded Nursing Care.
• Participate in the continued development of the management system to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, directorate and the wider NHS organisation.
• Assist in the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the Team.
• Participate in peer reviews, implementing change as appropriate and as defined within the FNC/Continuing Healthcare Guidance.

Person Specification

• Education / Qualifications
• Registered Nurse (adult)
• Degree or equivalent level of experience in health or social care
• Academic/professional qualification at higher degree level or equivalent experience

• Knowledge and Experience
• Significant experience of complex case management
• Experience of reporting clinical and non-clinical accidents and incidences promptly and when requested to co-operate with any investigation undertaken
• Excellent knowledge and practical experience of the Continuing Healthcare Framework

• Skills and Abilities
• To interpret and collate complex information for writing of comprehensive reports to be understood and read by both health and social care professionals and the layperson
• Experience of creating and presenting client information to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
• The ability to communicate sensitive and complex decisions to clients, families and other professionals, providing explicit examples to aid understanding

• Other
• Ability to challenge and support others appropriately and assertively
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with an ability to adopt several ways to influence diverse parties.
• Demonstrate commitment and role model behaviours and actions that support equality, diversity, belonging and inclusion.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.