B5 Bank Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Practitioner

at  NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

Nurse/Paramedic/Social Worker/Healthcare professional. Are you looking for a new challenge where you can broaden your existing skills and knowledge around continuing healthcare?
We have vacancies available for a Bank Band 5 CHC Practitioners to join our dedicated and experienced teams, providing commissioning services for people with complex care needs who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding or NHS-funded nursing care.
This is a bank post with no guaranteed hours. We currently have various vacancies with the following localities:
Lancashire/Derbyshire/Merseyside/Leicestershire/Staffordshire
We offer an agile way of working but there may be occasions when you would need to attend your office base or attend assessments face to face
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans, and military families bring to our business and would encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.
This is an exciting opportunity for career development and an ideal chance to enhance and utilise your clinical skills. You will need to be a highly motivated individual looking for a new challenge and should enjoy coordinating and communicating with a wide range of people. The candidate should have knowledge of the NHS Framework for Continuing Healthcare.
The successful candidate will provide specialist assessment and review for adults and older people presenting with long-term care needs who may be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS-funded nursing care and jointly funded packages of care in line with the NHS Framework for Continuing Healthcare.
Experience of undertaking assessments, and working with patients, families and carers is essential. The Personalised Healthcare Team are responsible for the assessment and review of people who reside in nursing care homes and the clinical commissioning of packages of care for people with continuing healthcare needs who reside in their own homes.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please get in touch. We would love to hear from you.
The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe. It’s a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is one of the biggest and best-performing commissioning support units in the country, with among the highest levels of staff and customer satisfaction. We work together as a team of over 1,600 expert staff based across the Midlands and North West to make a difference – for our customers, patients and communities.
Offering a full range of professional services to hospital trusts, local authorities, integrated care systems (ICSs) and other public bodies across the country, our NHS values underpin everything we do.
We provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment.
Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme and generous annual leave allowance.
With our training schemes and support networks, you will be empowered to play a leading role in the future of healthcare, whatever your specialism or interest. And as a member of NHS staff you will receive plenty of discounts too.
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Please refer the Job description for details