Job summary
The Clinical Lead will support the Head of Department and their team to ensure effective planning, management, and successful delivery of continuing care programmes. The role is pivotal in standardising processes, ensuring transparency, and maintaining compliance with organisational and statutory requirements.
Main duties of the job
- Expert in all matters in relation to All Age Continuing Healthcare (AACC) and NHS Funded Nursing Care expert.
- Manage and expedite all verification and Duty responsibilities across the HWE footprint in relation to AACC.
- Streamline and standardise the assessment, application, and access processes for NHS Continuing Care and NHS Funded Nursing Care.
- Ensure processes are clear, consistent, and transparent within available resources and in line with statutory and organisational requirements.
- Act as a key contact for continuing care service users and carers.
About us
Here at Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board, we're responsible for planning and overseeing how NHS money is spent to support the people who live in Hertfordshire and west Essex.
We have around 750 employees and our role is to make sure health services work well and are of high quality as well as value for money.
It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.
So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Adult or Mental Health) - with current registration
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Evidence of working knowledge of CHC
- Excellent understanding of the current issues impacting on the NHS, governance, policy and an experience of its implications so as to interpret and communicate them locally
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of identifying and contributing to safeguarding concerns
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
Desirable
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
- Understanding of the public sector
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
Communication Skills
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Adult or Mental Health) - with current registration
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Evidence of working knowledge of CHC
- Excellent understanding of the current issues impacting on the NHS, governance, policy and an experience of its implications so as to interpret and communicate them locally
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of identifying and contributing to safeguarding concerns
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
Desirable
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
- Understanding of the public sector
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
Communication Skills
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
Analytical
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Knowledge of Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (468)
Address
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. The Forum I Marlows I Hemel Hempstead I HP1 1DN
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1DN
Employer's website
https://hertsandwestessex.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
