Commissioning Nurse All Age Continuing Care

Commissioning Nurse All Age Continuing Care

Are you passionate about making a real difference in people's lives? Looking for a role where your skills will truly have an impact? Come and join our friendly and dedicated team at NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board.

We welcome interest from Registered Nurses with a background in mental health, learning disabilities, adult, children and young people; commissioning, specialist commissioning and dispute resolution, in addition to quality improvement.

Join us and be a part of something bigger making a real difference in the lives of people across Cheshire and Merseyside.

Who We're Looking For

We're seeking dedicated, compassionate professionals with experience in nursing and healthcare assessment. If you're passionate about patient care, have strong assessment skills, and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you

Why Work With Us?

• Work within a collaborative, supportive, and forward-thinking environment.
• Engage in meaningful work that directly improves the lives of our patients.
• Be part of a team dedicated to service innovation and best practice.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Main duties of the job

Band 6 Commissioning Nurse for

Physical Disability

Mental Health / Learning Disability

As a very brief overview, your role will be to work closely with acute Trusts to support discharge to assess pathways, completing all reviews and assessments in line with the service's key performance indicators.

You will:

• Deliver optimum holistic care to service users identified for NHS healthcare funding.
• Be actively involved in ensuring that service users meet the eligibility criteria for NHS Continuing Healthcare.
• Ensure service users are reviewed in line with national and local policies and procedures, as well as those eligible for Section 117.
• Assess, commission, plan and procure packages of care for service users in line with the AACC Commissioning Policy.

For more details, the full job description and person specification is attached.

About us

At NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, we support over 2.5 million people across nine boroughs, working alongside NHS providers, local authorities, and community organisations. We're one of the largest Integrated Care Systems (ICS) in the country, committed to improving health outcomes and delivering high-quality care to those who need it most.

For more information please visit: cheshireandmerseysideopportunities.nhs.uk or for an informal conversation please contact Anita Denton at MIAA working on behalf of NHS Cheshire and Merseyside.

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• This will be varied and will adapt over time as both the ICB/S develops. However, the postholder is expected to fulfil the following key functions:
• Assessment and case management carried out in a timely, effective, person-centred way.
• Compliance with national process and policy around Continuing Healthcare.
• Compliance with national targets and quality indicators for CHC.
• All partners and stakeholders being fully aware of potential / actual delays and likely timescales for discharges.
• Commissioning of safe, cost-effective, quality and appropriate care.

Key working relationships

The post holder will have regular contact with a wide range of staff at all levels within the ICB/S, with senior and other representatives of local stakeholders, as well as with patients and their representatives. Some of the key direct relationships include:

• Cheshire and Merseyside ICB/S executive teams
• Cheshire and Merseyside ICB leadership teams
• Clinical Leaders
• Colleagues within NHSE/I
• Senior leaders across Cheshire and Merseyside, NHS, local authorities and other third sector organisations

Main duties and responsibilities

• Meeting individuals' ongoing health care needs ensuring delivery of, and compliance with, the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care.
• Ensure assessments are undertaken in line with the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and funded-Nursing Care and submitted to the ICB within the services' key performance indicators.
• Complete all reviews and assessments in line with the services' key performance indicators.
• Work closely with acute Trusts to support discharge to assess pathways.
• Accurately input information onto departmental databases and tools used in Continuing Healthcare adhering to NMC standards for record keeping.
• Assist and support individuals and representatives in relation to the Continuing Healthcare process.
• Commission appropriate packages of care for individuals eligible for CHC or other NHS funded care, in line with the Commissioning Policy.
• Case management and ongoing review of individuals eligible for CHC or other NHS funded care in accordance with the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS-Funded Nursing Care.
• Provide assurance regarding the quality of individual packages of care by undertaking reviews as required and reporting quality/safeguarding concerns through the agreed reporting route in a timely manner.
• Undertake urgent reviews of individuals where quality and safety concerns have been identified.
• Ensuring data systems are kept up to date and maintained in line with standard operating policy and procedures.
• Management of complaints/disputes.
• Prepare and collate appropriate documentation to enable the level of NHS funding to be determined within the parameters of the National Framework for Continuing Health Care and NHS Funded Nursing Care.
• Process urgent fast track referrals and, where appropriate, procure packages of care in a timely manner for individuals who are receiving or require end of life care.
• Support young adults transitioning from child to adult services, awareness of policies pertaining to this assessment.
• Maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Delivering against objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of legislation, policies and guidance.
• Have an understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards completing relevant documentation for Court as appropriate.
• Maintain professional confidentiality in all matters relating to patient care.
• Promoting transparency and a person-centred approach with patients, families and representatives.
• Actively promote and implement personal health budgets.
• Participate in audit within the service.
• Triage new referrals and participate in the duty desk as appropriate.
• Participate in the delivery of training programmes for staff across health and social care.
• Actively promote communication and partnership working between the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors.
• Providing relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on functional and information matters relating to the service.
• Contribute to team function by sharing own clinical skills/expertise and knowledge.
• Identify any training needs within the independent and statutory services and ensure this information is fed back appropriately.
• Ensuring own compliance with all statutory and mandatory training.
• Line manage staff as requested, ensuring HR policies and procedures are followed.
• Ensure any staff that are line managed by the post holder receive appropriate supervision.
• Carrying out other appropriate delegated duties as required.
• Adhere and complete the NHS Continuing Healthcare competency framework on an annual basis.

Person Specification Experience

• Understanding of Local Authority functions.
• Conversant with national and local guidance on NHS continuing healthcare and NHS Funded Care.
• Strong understanding of the operational management and clinical role of the NHS.
• Understanding of the patient experience agenda & its importance.
• Knowledge & understanding of the current NHS agenda and of primary care.
• A good understanding of personalised care, in particular personal health budgets.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload effectively and make informed decisions working to tight and often changing deadlines.
• Ability to analyse cases where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Experience of working in a health or care environment.
• Previous experience of caseload management.
• Track record in clinical quality & performance activities.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience in working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Current Nursing qualification and registration.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

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.

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