CPN Nurse Assessor, Older Persons Community Mental Health Teams

at  Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Hold a clinical caseload, providing comprehensive nursing assessments to determine the appropriate category of care required for a care home placement, and to support the Continuing Health Care and NHS Funded Care process.
Foster robust, open and positive working relationships with all partners, in particular, Local Authority and other mental health services and the 3rd sector, ensuring that all partners are treated with dignity and respect.
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, acting as a resource to provide nursing advice in relation to appropriate placement and management.
The post holder will provide comprehensive nursing assessments to determine the appropriate category of care required for a care home placement and to support the Continuing Health Care and NHS Funded Nursing Care process.
The post holder will develop and maintain a collaborative approach to the fair application of both NHS Funded Nursing Care and Continuing Health Care criteria.
The post holder will encourage joint working and actively work towards improving outcomes for patients via the process and provide accurate advice and information to the multi-disciplinary team and families regarding the outcome of the nursing assessment process.
The post holder will frequently work as a Lone Worker.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

WE LIVE BY OUR CORE VALUES:

We listen, learn and improve
We treat everyone with respect
We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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