Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Case Manager

at  NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board

Are you looking for a new challenge?
Are you a registered nurse or Allied Health professional with a current registration?
Would you like to work in a flexible and friendly team working core hours Monday to Friday?
We do not work ANY Bank holidays within the year and YES this does include Christmas!
If you are interested by the above alone, then feel free to call me and have a chat, or come and see what we do to see if this job is for you!
The Base will be Sleaford however we try and keep you within Locality and after the Assessment you can either work from the office or work from Home. Team Meetings are held in the office once a month, and we would look for you to come into the office if your assessment for the day is cancelled.
NHS Lincolnshire ICB is seeking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic and forward thinking clinical assessor to work as part of our Continuing Health Care team. The successful candidate will be working across our varied and diverse population. We are recruiting to fill posts in the East and South of the County. You need to be able to work autonomously and collaboratively within a multi-agency environment and dynamic skill-mixed team.
If you are a self-motivated and collaborative professional, who possesses excellent communication skills, has an eye for detail and support the philosophy for delivering high quality services to people, this would be the ideal opportunity for you.
The CHC Case Manager will ensure that the health care needs for Continuing Healthcare (CHC) are identified and met in accordance with the National Framework.
The post holder will ensure that they adhere at all times to the relevant National Framework and guidance, NMC Code of Professional Conduct and work within established policies, procedures, protocols and systems ensuring quality standards and performance.

Registered Nurse RGN, RMN or RNLD or Allied Health Professional with qualification.
Knowledge of the CHC framework and its application
Knowledge of NHS and social services guidance.
Strong knowledge base around safeguarding children and adults
Evidence of teaching/mentorship
Clinical knowledge base in order to ensure comprehensive holistic assessment for continuing care
A background that can demonstrate clinical experience in a healthcare setting including inter-agency and multi-agency working
Evidence of continued professional development
Competent in IT including good typing skills. Able to work with a database, Excel, Microsoft
NHS ICB is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. Individuals are at the heart of everything we do and it’s important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.
In conjunction, with individuals experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme; system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.
The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB’s objectives and financial sustainability.
Supporting the Locality Lead in the development of a range of services required for individuals who qualify for packages of care
Collating and undertaking comprehensive and coordinated multi-agency assessments. Decision making for continuing Healthcare must be in line with standard operating policy and procedures and the National Framework
Promoting Personal Health Budgets, ensuring integration into Continuing Healthcare
Case managing CHC individuals, ensuring timely reviews are conducted and ascertaining care packages continue to be effectively commissioned and are cost effective
Assisting in maintaining a database for all patients assessed for Continuing healthcare and ensure high quality assurance systems are in place
Communicate information, risks, issues and dependencies, including briefings and reports
Developing strong working relationships with partner agencies including acute hospital trusts, local authorities, the independent sector, neighbourhood teams and others
Providing professional nursing advice to acute hospital trusts, care providers and social services with regards to Continuing Healthcare and Personal Health Budgets
Supporting to review and respond to complaints, freedom of information requests and subject access requests
Support requests for retrospective reviews for CHC and disputes
Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
To use IT and databases on a daily bas