Job summary
The post holder will act as a Senior Children's Assessor and exemplar for best practice within the Children and Young People's Continuing Care Team (CYPCC) for children and young people with complex physical health, mental health and learning disability needs.
The post holder will work within Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB Children & Young People Continuing Care Team to ensure delivery of best possible care within available funding, representing "value for money", to support the seamless implementation of the National Framework for Children and Young People's Continuing Care (CYPCC). This role includes contribution to the development of the service, training programmes and facilitating others learning.
The post holder will provide advice, screen referrals and co-ordinate assessments in alignment with the National Framework for Continuing Care and local policies, supporting an end to end Children and Young People's Continuing Care service. The post holder will process, and quality assure referrals/checklists and decision support tools.
The post holder will work as part of the CYPCC team to provide a case management approach by working with specialists across the fields of physical disability, learning disability, mental health, and end of life needs, to ensure the child or young person receives quality health care to achieve the best outcomes for them.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the CYPCC team in providing in-depth support and guidance for those cases that cause increased challenge, requiring a skillset to manage complex situations which can include legal challenge, court proceedings, complex disputes/appeals/complaints.
- Lead the CYPCC team in provision of assessment, case management and review process for children with complex healthcare needs related to Continuing Care, Complex Cases children and young people's cases including physical, mental health needs, learning disabilities or autism. Inclusive of liaison where required, with the child's family/parents/carers.
- Gain assurances of safe and appropriate provision within residential or therapeutic placement, via multi-agency review process. Working with specialist health and Local Authority colleagues to assess continued suitability and appropriateness of placement, and gaining assurances that placement is liaising with NHS core and specialist services as required.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is a fully-authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers. The ICB aim is to improve the health of the people of Lancashire & South Cumbria and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically-led commissioning of high quality healthcare services.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a successful, progressive ICB and to make a positive contribution to the lives of people in Lancashire & South Cumbria.
Our hours of work are Monday -Friday, 9am -5pm with the opportunity for agile working. Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB is committed to the personal and professional development of their staff and offers a wide selection of learning and development opportunities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure the health care plan involves satisfactory outcomes for children and young people including safe discharge from acute/community provision, transition between placements and facilitates continuity of care.
- Contribute to a continuous review process in line with the Looked After Children health review process, Special Educational Needs and Disability.
- Where necessary provide professional governance oversight of Personal Health Budget development, implementation and subsequent review process, alongside those responsible for Personal Health Budget delivery.
- Identify and recommend service improvements, aiding or enhancing provision of care & ensure young people are effectively safeguarded.
- Take an active role and where required lead on the development of policies, procedures and protocols for enhancing professional practice and workforce development within the area of responsibility.
- Provide and lead on training within specialist area of responsibility as appropriate, and support CYPCC team members to carry out training as required.
- Provide advice and support and be an exemplar of best practice to relevant service transformation and redesign projects as required.
- Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with stakeholders and partners across the local area health footprint and social care community, participating in network meetings where appropriate. Use these meetings and relationships to influence the development and implementation of policy and initiatives. Providing support and guidance to junior staff through these initiatives.
- Contribute to and collate activity and performance data together with specialist analysis and commentary, lead on delivery to ICB performance reports as required.
- Maintain effective communication with patients and carers/advocates and professionals across health and social services.
- Take the lead on and support junior staff where required through difficult and challenging scenarios and situations.
- Contribute to formal and informal education and training to health, social care and education colleagues, independent sector, voluntary sector.
- Responsible for own professional development and be actively involved in professional and multi-agency initiatives.
- Responsible for ensuring joint contractual arrangements and reporting are in place for each child or young person, in liaison with the relevant procurement/contracting, income and charging departments within ICB and Local Authorities.
- Access up-to-date research evidence to secure cost and service improvements from alternative methods of operation, through new goods and services or re-engineering existing processes.
- Key Working Relationships
- Operate effectively in a flexible and increasingly demanding environment proactively engaging with internal and external clinical and non-clinical colleagues within the ICB, Local Authorities and partner organisations, care providers, NHS England and CQC.
- Communicate and present highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in a formal setting, with the ability to deal with potentially aggressive and antagonistic conflict situations.
- Work and engage constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of contentious quality and safety issues in order to ensure that services commissioned by the ICB are provided effectively and safely, and to the appropriate level of quality. Scrutinise and challenge providers to ensure the ICB fulfils its duty to secure continuous improvement in the quality of commissioned care home and domiciliary services.
- Develop and maintain key relationships internally and externally, including national networks, in order to provide advice and support to the ICB based on evidence and national guidance, including NHS England CHC Network, Personal Health Budget Network and CQC/Ofsted meetings.
- Clinical:
- Support the CYPCC Clinical Lead in managing and coordinating the Childrens service.
- Work alongside the multi-agency team with regards to the coordination of the discharge from hospital environments/acute/residential settings of children with complex health needs, liaising with specialist health teams, community nursing teams, education, voluntary agencies, social services, children with disabilities team, NHS and independent nursing and care agencies to address the needs of the child and young person.
- Advise the teams involved in the requirement and development of appropriate care plans, risk assessments and contingency planning to meet the complex needs of the children and young people.
- Liaison with procurement/commissioning team to successfully navigate the process to procure bespoke commissioned services to meet the needs of the child or young person. Gaining the assurances around clinical governance prior to funding/contribution to various types of care package arrangement, mitigating clinical and financial risk on behalf of the customers.
- Plan and negotiate with private/independent nursing agencies the implementation of packages of care to enable children with complex health, behavioural and mental health care needs, and their families to have their nursing and care need met in the community setting.
- Liaison with Local Authorities, Looked After Childrens Nurse, specialist commissioned services to understand the needs of a child and young person in a residential/therapeutic setting.
- Work with agencies and commissioned providers to ensure the clinical governance requirements of the care packages are met.
- To take part in the review, development and organisation of the Continuing Care procedure in accordance with national policies and standards.
- Write expert practitioner clinically focussed assessments and service delivery reports as required.
- Provide advice and support to those health professionals who are coordinating the initial assessment of Continuing Care needs within the Department of Health and Social Care Framework (2016)
- Oversee staff presenting the joint holistic assessment of care needs to the eligibility multi-agency panel (who will discuss and confirm eligibility and agree level of financial funding).
- Liaison with lead NHS health professionals (acute and community) throughout applied process.
- To ensure that appropriate guidelines, protocols and competencies are in place to secure high quality care in accordance with national guidance as it develops.
- Provide clinical expertise and on-going support regarding application of process to families and children who have complex heath and behavioural needs, and lead on or support CYPCC team members in managing complex queries/concerns/complaints/appeals.
- To practice autonomously with competence and expertise.
- Work within agreed systems and processes and secure best value for money packages that meet clinical needs.
- To actively participate in setting standards, carrying out regular clinical audit, service monitoring and report writing.
- To adhere to the ICB policies and procedures at all times.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure the health care plan involves satisfactory outcomes for children and young people including safe discharge from acute/community provision, transition between placements and facilitates continuity of care.
- Contribute to a continuous review process in line with the Looked After Children health review process, Special Educational Needs and Disability.
- Where necessary provide professional governance oversight of Personal Health Budget development, implementation and subsequent review process, alongside those responsible for Personal Health Budget delivery.
- Identify and recommend service improvements, aiding or enhancing provision of care & ensure young people are effectively safeguarded.
- Take an active role and where required lead on the development of policies, procedures and protocols for enhancing professional practice and workforce development within the area of responsibility.
- Provide and lead on training within specialist area of responsibility as appropriate, and support CYPCC team members to carry out training as required.
- Provide advice and support and be an exemplar of best practice to relevant service transformation and redesign projects as required.
- Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with stakeholders and partners across the local area health footprint and social care community, participating in network meetings where appropriate. Use these meetings and relationships to influence the development and implementation of policy and initiatives. Providing support and guidance to junior staff through these initiatives.
- Contribute to and collate activity and performance data together with specialist analysis and commentary, lead on delivery to ICB performance reports as required.
- Maintain effective communication with patients and carers/advocates and professionals across health and social services.
- Take the lead on and support junior staff where required through difficult and challenging scenarios and situations.
- Contribute to formal and informal education and training to health, social care and education colleagues, independent sector, voluntary sector.
- Responsible for own professional development and be actively involved in professional and multi-agency initiatives.
- Responsible for ensuring joint contractual arrangements and reporting are in place for each child or young person, in liaison with the relevant procurement/contracting, income and charging departments within ICB and Local Authorities.
- Access up-to-date research evidence to secure cost and service improvements from alternative methods of operation, through new goods and services or re-engineering existing processes.
- Key Working Relationships
- Operate effectively in a flexible and increasingly demanding environment proactively engaging with internal and external clinical and non-clinical colleagues within the ICB, Local Authorities and partner organisations, care providers, NHS England and CQC.
- Communicate and present highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in a formal setting, with the ability to deal with potentially aggressive and antagonistic conflict situations.
- Work and engage constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of contentious quality and safety issues in order to ensure that services commissioned by the ICB are provided effectively and safely, and to the appropriate level of quality. Scrutinise and challenge providers to ensure the ICB fulfils its duty to secure continuous improvement in the quality of commissioned care home and domiciliary services.
- Develop and maintain key relationships internally and externally, including national networks, in order to provide advice and support to the ICB based on evidence and national guidance, including NHS England CHC Network, Personal Health Budget Network and CQC/Ofsted meetings.
- Clinical:
- Support the CYPCC Clinical Lead in managing and coordinating the Childrens service.
- Work alongside the multi-agency team with regards to the coordination of the discharge from hospital environments/acute/residential settings of children with complex health needs, liaising with specialist health teams, community nursing teams, education, voluntary agencies, social services, children with disabilities team, NHS and independent nursing and care agencies to address the needs of the child and young person.
- Advise the teams involved in the requirement and development of appropriate care plans, risk assessments and contingency planning to meet the complex needs of the children and young people.
- Liaison with procurement/commissioning team to successfully navigate the process to procure bespoke commissioned services to meet the needs of the child or young person. Gaining the assurances around clinical governance prior to funding/contribution to various types of care package arrangement, mitigating clinical and financial risk on behalf of the customers.
- Plan and negotiate with private/independent nursing agencies the implementation of packages of care to enable children with complex health, behavioural and mental health care needs, and their families to have their nursing and care need met in the community setting.
- Liaison with Local Authorities, Looked After Childrens Nurse, specialist commissioned services to understand the needs of a child and young person in a residential/therapeutic setting.
- Work with agencies and commissioned providers to ensure the clinical governance requirements of the care packages are met.
- To take part in the review, development and organisation of the Continuing Care procedure in accordance with national policies and standards.
- Write expert practitioner clinically focussed assessments and service delivery reports as required.
- Provide advice and support to those health professionals who are coordinating the initial assessment of Continuing Care needs within the Department of Health and Social Care Framework (2016)
- Oversee staff presenting the joint holistic assessment of care needs to the eligibility multi-agency panel (who will discuss and confirm eligibility and agree level of financial funding).
- Liaison with lead NHS health professionals (acute and community) throughout applied process.
- To ensure that appropriate guidelines, protocols and competencies are in place to secure high quality care in accordance with national guidance as it develops.
- Provide clinical expertise and on-going support regarding application of process to families and children who have complex heath and behavioural needs, and lead on or support CYPCC team members in managing complex queries/concerns/complaints/appeals.
- To practice autonomously with competence and expertise.
- Work within agreed systems and processes and secure best value for money packages that meet clinical needs.
- To actively participate in setting standards, carrying out regular clinical audit, service monitoring and report writing.
- To adhere to the ICB policies and procedures at all times.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the field of children with complex physical disability needs, palliative/end of life care.
- Experience of working within and commissioning children's complex care/Continuing Care packages, inclusive of procurement
- Demonstrable experience of working in multi professional and multi-agency arena
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC): RN Child/ RSCN/SCPHN (Health Visiting/School Nursing), LD/MH Nurse with extensive experience of managing a caseload of patients.
Skills
Essential
- Comfortable with complex and demanding workloads and competing priorities.
- Demonstrate the ability to include children and young people in discussions about their continuing care needs.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of quality monitoring skills of children and young people's care in the community
- Demonstrable relative experience and knowledge of current key policies and priorities
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within the field of children with complex physical disability needs, palliative/end of life care.
- Experience of working within and commissioning children's complex care/Continuing Care packages, inclusive of procurement
- Demonstrable experience of working in multi professional and multi-agency arena
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC): RN Child/ RSCN/SCPHN (Health Visiting/School Nursing), LD/MH Nurse with extensive experience of managing a caseload of patients.
Skills
Essential
- Comfortable with complex and demanding workloads and competing priorities.
- Demonstrate the ability to include children and young people in discussions about their continuing care needs.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of quality monitoring skills of children and young people's care in the community
- Demonstrable relative experience and knowledge of current key policies and priorities
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).