AACC Senior Nurse AssessorNHS

Job summary

We are seeking experienced registered nurses to join our All Age Continuing Care team as AACC Senior Nurse Assessors. This is an opportunity to use your clinical judgement, assessment skills and partnership-working experience to support fair, robust and person-centred decisions for people with complex health needs. You will undertake assessments and reviews, coordinate multidisciplinary input and manage a defined caseload across a range of care settings. We are looking for confident and compassionate clinicians who can analyse complex information, communicate sensitively and maintain high professional standards in a changing service.

This role will require weekly office-based working in line with the hybrid working policies set out for each ICB, with office bases available in Coventry, Warwick, Worcester and Hereford for all staff to use. While this role is expected to be place-based, travel may be required across the cluster and to care settings as needed.

NHS Coventry & Warwickshire ICB and NHS Herefordshire & Worcestershire ICB are working together as a cluster with a shared management team. The ICBs recognise the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business and encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.

Main duties of the job

You will undertake comprehensive CHC and FNC assessments and reviews, including Fast Track pathways, using the relevant National Framework to support evidence-based recommendations. You will manage a caseload, monitor and review care packages, assess risk and contribute to safe, responsive care planning.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary activity and work closely with health, social care, independent and voluntary sector partners. You will explain complex and sensitive decisions to individuals, families and carers, identify and escalate safeguarding or quality concerns, and contribute to complaints, quality assurance, clinical governance and service improvement. You will also support transition planning for young people moving from Childrens Continuing Care into adult CHC services.

Job description

As part of your application, please disclose if you have recently been in receipt of the Mutually Agreed Resignation Scheme (MARS) or Voluntary Redundancy. Please note that this information is collected solely for administrative purposes; it will not form any part of the selection process.

Assessment and eligibility

Undertake comprehensive assessments of health and care needs across acute, community and care home settings.

Apply the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care, including Fast Track pathways, to support eligibility decisions.

Ensure assessments are holistic, evidence-based, person-centred and completed within agreed timescales.

Clinical decision-making and case management

Analyse complex clinical information, assess risk and make informed recommendations regarding eligibility and care needs.

Manage a defined caseload and review, monitor and evaluate care packages to ensure they remain safe, effective and responsive to changing needs.

Contribute the NHS perspective to joint care planning and jointly funded packages with social care partners.

Communication and partnership working

Coordinate and contribute to multidisciplinary assessments and reviews and build effective relationships across health, social care, independent and voluntary sectors.

Communicate complex, sensitive and potentially distressing information to individuals, families and carers with empathy and clarity.

Support transition planning for young people moving from Childrens Continuing Care into adult CHC through early identification, joint planning and timely decision-making.

Quality, governance and professional practice

Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns and quality issues in line with policy.

Contribute to complaints, patient experience, quality assurance, clinical governance and service improvement.

Maintain current NMC registration, practise in line with the NMC Code and undertake continuing professional development.

About us

The NHS is a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities. We are a dynamic, forward-looking organisation, passionate about working together with our health and social care partners to ensure services are integrated, seamless and offer a high-quality patient experience. We thrive on building strong relationships with patients, communities, partners and providers.

Our AACC team works across the two-ICB cluster to deliver consistent, high-quality CHC and FNC processes. You will join a collaborative clinical service focused on sound decision-making, strong professional relationships, patient experience, quality assurance and continuous improvement.

We provide a supportive and collaborative environment where we work with our staff to provide opportunities for you to reach your full potential and to develop a rewarding career within an exciting and evolving environment. We aim to enable our employees to achieve a positive work-life balance through a blend of collaborative workplace attendance combined with regular home working.

Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of attractive benefits including:

Employee Assistance programmes

Competitive NHS Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement, which increases in line with service

Flexible working patterns to support work-life balance

Please note we operate a probationary period of up to 6 months for new appointments.