Job summary
Children's and young people's Continuing Care, covering Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) are looking for assessors with a range of clinical skills to support assessments of children and young people with varying but complex health needs.
If you have experience in complex physical health and/or mental health and/or learning disabilities, you may be just the person to join our thriving team. We are looking for individuals who are motivated to use their clinical expertise to make a positive difference, delivering assessments using the National Framework and seeking CYP and family based solutions often through Personal Health Budgets.
As we cover a large geographical area, there will be opportunity to have a primary base in one of our counties; however, there will also be an expectation that work is carried out across BOB in answer to referral receipt and clinical need. Our current assessors primarily work virtually; however, there is an expectation that face-to-face assessments and visits to home and school are part of each assessment.
Main duties of the job
We are a team keen to make a difference with plenty of experience and knowledge. There will be ample opportunity to develop new skills working alongside existing learning disability, mental health, and physical health case managers leading the way in the application of Children's Continuing Care Framework to support equitable, good quality health care delivery and positive health outcomes.
About us
In the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers the geography across three counties and aligns with the local authority boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we have pockets of severe deprivation.
Our constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3 acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance trust, and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of public money each year.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates, and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for
assessing and reviewing
individuals for CHC or FNC. Some posts require undertaking a
case coordination
role and supporting people with Personal Health Budgets.
Working within the remit of the National Framework (NF) for CHC and FNC, the post holder will provide a high-quality service that supports the delivery of an effective and competent service that consistently delivers an individual-focused intervention with patients, their families, and representatives.
The post holder will be required to have a good knowledge of health and social care practice and be able to demonstrate an understanding of CHC and FNC and be prepared to extend their skills, knowledge, and competence in this field.
This post will require good communication skills with individuals and their families or representatives and requires the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary way with colleagues.
Deliver against objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring their professional registration and mandatory training is up-to-date.
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities, and outcomes of the role. The post holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the AACC service and the ICB.
Person Specification
Analytical
Essential
Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options. Take decisions on difficult and challenging issues where there may be a number of courses of action. Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. Planning Skills
Essential
Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly. Management Skills
Essential
Must be able to prioritise own work effectively. Experience of managing and motivating colleagues. Communication Skills
Essential
Must be able to provide and receive sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with individuals, their families and representatives and stakeholders on challenging and controversial issues. Qualifications
Essential
Hold a post graduate level qualification in a relevant health or care discipline. Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development. Member of relevant professional body. Experience
Essential
Working knowledge of CHC, acquired through formal education or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to a high-level equivalent. Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement. Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care, local authorities and individual provider and commissioning organisations. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Children's and young people's Continuing Care, covering Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) are looking for assessors with a range of clinical skills to support assessments of children and young people with varying but complex health needs.
If you have experience in complex physical health and/or mental health and/or learning disabilities, you may be just the person to join our thriving team. We are looking for individuals who are motivated to use their clinical expertise to make a positive difference, delivering assessments using the National Framework and seeking CYP and family based solutions often through Personal Health Budgets.
As we cover a large geographical area, there will be opportunity to have a primary base in one of our counties; however, there will also be an expectation that work is carried out across BOB in answer to referral receipt and clinical need. Our current assessors primarily work virtually; however, there is an expectation that face-to-face assessments and visits to home and school are part of each assessment.
Main duties of the job
We are a team keen to make a difference with plenty of experience and knowledge. There will be ample opportunity to develop new skills working alongside existing learning disability, mental health, and physical health case managers leading the way in the application of Children's Continuing Care Framework to support equitable, good quality health care delivery and positive health outcomes.
About us
In the heart of the Thames Valley is our Integrated Care Board (ICB). It covers the geography across three counties and aligns with the local authority boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham. Our geography covers a population of nearly 1.8 million. While overall in good health and socio-economic condition, alongside affluence we have pockets of severe deprivation.
Our constituent organisations include 175 GP surgeries, 5 local authorities, 3 acute hospital trusts, 2 mental health and community providers, 1 ambulance trust, and a single operating model across all of this, spending £2.5bn of public money each year.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates, and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for
assessing and reviewing
individuals for CHC or FNC. Some posts require undertaking a
case coordination
role and supporting people with Personal Health Budgets.
Working within the remit of the National Framework (NF) for CHC and FNC, the post holder will provide a high-quality service that supports the delivery of an effective and competent service that consistently delivers an individual-focused intervention with patients, their families, and representatives.
The post holder will be required to have a good knowledge of health and social care practice and be able to demonstrate an understanding of CHC and FNC and be prepared to extend their skills, knowledge, and competence in this field.
This post will require good communication skills with individuals and their families or representatives and requires the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary way with colleagues.
Deliver against objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload and working to tight deadlines.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring their professional registration and mandatory training is up-to-date.
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities, and outcomes of the role. The post holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the AACC service and the ICB.
Person Specification
Analytical
Essential
Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options. Take decisions on difficult and challenging issues where there may be a number of courses of action. Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise. Planning Skills
Essential
Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly. Management Skills
Essential
Must be able to prioritise own work effectively. Experience of managing and motivating colleagues. Communication Skills
Essential
Must be able to provide and receive sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with individuals, their families and representatives and stakeholders on challenging and controversial issues. Qualifications
Essential
Hold a post graduate level qualification in a relevant health or care discipline. Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development. Member of relevant professional body. Experience
Essential
Working knowledge of CHC, acquired through formal education or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to a high-level equivalent. Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement. Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care, local authorities and individual provider and commissioning organisations. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
