This Clinical and Service Lead post sits within the NHS Continuing Healthcare Service run by East London NHS Foundation Trust for clients commissioned by Tower Hamlets and Newham ICB, both fully and jointly funded. The role leads eligibility and funded nursing care assessments, line-manages the integrated CHC team and delivers its key performance indicators. It is distinct for combining a clinical caseload with the adult safeguarding lead role. Candidates need NMC or HCPC registration and expert knowledge of the framework.
What the job involves
- Provide clinical guidance to the Adult Continuing Care Panel and co-ordinate case management of adult continuing care cases
- Ensure specialist and Continuing Care assessments are prompt, fair and equitable, supporting seamless care for residents in Tower Hamlets and Newham
- Lead the CHC team in eligibility and Funded Nursing Care assessments and reviews, including timely Fast Track reviews, and co-ordinate referrals for these assessments
- Line-manage CHC team members and manage the day-to-day operation of the integrated CHC team
- Co-ordinate delivery of NHS Continuing Healthcare and be accountable for its key performance indicators
- Ensure the Nursing Homes Liaison Service gives clinical support that reduces or prevents avoidable hospital admissions
- Ensure Continuing Care assessments are completed with clear clinical reasoning, as reflected in regular clinical audits
- Manage a clinical caseload while serving as the adult safeguarding lead for the service
- Deliver NHS Continuing Healthcare training across health and social care, ensuring eligibility criteria are applied consistently
- Review and monitor care packages with multidisciplinary involvement, ensuring placements are appropriate and cost effective
- Respond to complaints arising from eligibility panel decisions
- Ensure team members provide agreed support to care home staff, residents and their relatives
Qualifications
- Graduate in nursing or a health-related subject
- Postgraduate qualification at MSc level or working towards one
- Postgraduate mentoring qualification
- Evidence of CPD relevant to diabetes and a willingness to keep up CPD
Registration & licences
- NMC Part 1 registration or HCPC registration as a therapist
Experience
- Post-registration experience, including current senior clinical practice in NHS Continuing Healthcare
- Partnership working and managing staff across organisations
- Effective budget management
Skills & knowledge
- Expert knowledge of the NHS Continuing Healthcare framework and its application
- Working with and within a diverse community
- Understanding of the health and social care agenda
- Operational planning and modelling to inform decisions
- Finance and resource management
- Office systems and procedures
Other
- Knowledge of adult services policy, governance and vulnerable adult protection law, evidenced in practice
- Principles of managing people and performance management
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
