Senior Assessor Review Team

Job summary

Do you want to achieve exceptional health outcomes for adults with a range of health conditions?

Do you enjoy a challenge and hard work?

Do you enjoy change?

Are you interested to find out more? Does this sound like you?

We are looking for a dynamic and innovative clinician with experience working with CHC eligible adults with a range of complex needs to come and join our review team within the All Age Continuing Care and Specialist Placement team.

We provide a comprehensive and robust review to ensure commissioned services are meeting assessed needs and individuals continue to meet the criteria for NHS CHC. These range between home-based support, personal health budgets and nursing homes. You will be working across all health and social care sectors and visiting patients in their homes or placement. We work as a team across Kent and Medway. The role involves ensuring the work is appropriately planned and resourced, assisting the team with reviews, ensuring the reviews are high quality and robust, and applying clinical oversight for both the reviews and care management. The role requires good communication and assessment skills, the ability to promote team working, and a comprehensive understanding of the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and Funded Nursing Care. Training on the specific framework will be given.

Informal discussions welcomed & arranged through Laura Whitfield

Please call to arrange on 01634 335095 option 8

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role are leading the review team, undertaking reviews, case management and the production of data for the review project. You will ratifying assessments and providing clinical oversight to the review team, as well as working with the wider CHC team. The role requires you to be confident in your assessment skills with strong clinical credibility.

We work closely with: Local Authority, Social care, providers of community services, Learning disability and autism services, hospices and Business as usual Continuing Health Care.

The role requires you to travel across Kent and Medway and to hospitals and placements out of area.

This role will require you to support and supervise junior staff and we work to a hybrid model whereby we work regularly in an office and from home.

About us

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation. If you would like this information in an alternative format or in a different language, please contact the HR team at kmicb.hr@nhs.net

All new starters with NHS Kent and Medway will be subject to a probationary period which is dependent on the length of contract. The probationary period works alongside the induction process to help create a positive and supportive working environment allowing new starters to learn the key elements of the role within a reasonable & realistic timescale.