Continuing Health Care Senior Clinical Assessor / Practitioner

Job summary Passionate about people? Thrive on advocating for your patients and negotiating the best outcomes? Great clinical assessment and case management skills? If this describes you...then read on! We are excited to announce new opportunities within our Hampshire and Isle of Wight All Age Continuing Care service. We are looking for people who are passionate about patient care and improving life opportunities who share our values of being person centred, honest, courageous, innovative, and collaborative. As a Senior Clinical Assessor/Practitioner (Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional) in Continuing Healthcare, you will be responsible for conducting comprehensive individual assessments of patients to assess their eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) to enable timely provision of care, case managing clients to ensure that their needs are effectively met and promoting Personal Health Budgets and personalisation to empower people with complex health needs live their best lives. Main duties of the job You will need to have excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills and an ability to make decisions in a challenging but supportive environment. As part of the role, you will have the opportunity to develop strong links with health and social care colleagues to ensure effective multi-disciplinary working and develop a strong understanding of local NHS and independent sector service provision in individual's own homes and in care homes. Whilst experience in Continuing Healthcare would be helpful, if you have the right skills and attitude, we can support you to develop the specific skills required for Continuing Healthcare. We offer in house training opportunities and Team Leaders who are non-case holding in order to mentor and develop our Clinical Assessors with complex cases, including safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and Court of Protection. You will be part of a wider All Age team, comprising administration, brokerage, commissioners, Deprivation of Liberty experts and case practitioners who provide a wide range of expertise and support. If you are looking for your next opportunity, this could be it. Working within All Age Continuing Care teams really develops and diversifies your skills. About us We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working. We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life. We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills. Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff: 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement NHS pension scheme Sick pay policy Occupational health services including staff counselling services Flexible working and family friendly policies

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