Continuing Healthcare Assessor (Bank Staff)

Job summary

Are you a Heath Professional with Continuing Health Care experience or looking to develop skills in Continuing Health Care within the NHS? Are you looking to work within our Integrated Care Board (ICB)?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for professional with knowledge of Continuing Health Care or a desire to develop knowledge of Continuing Health Care. Bedfordshire Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board (BLMK ICB) are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, compassionate, and innovative, to work with us to take our vision forward, focusing on increasing the efficiency of the ICB Continuing Health Care Team.

The post holder will work as part of an integrated ICB team, alongside system colleagues plusregional and national teams to help deliver the best value from Local and National programmes and services by providing clinical expertise to support The Continuing Health Care's integration pilots and projects and to embed new clinical services to fully realise their ICB offers superb development opportunities for all staff, and this role is ideal for aspiring practitioners as you will be responsible for leading continuing care across key business areas.

This opportunity is for a Zero hours contract and will form part of our Bank staffing program.

Training will be given for candidates that meet the the specifications outlined.

Main duties of the job

To manage a case load of patients through the Continuing Healthcare process, utilising knowledge, and experience to complete holistic assessments and reviews both remotely and in person. Supporting our partners and the public with insight and application of the National Framework.

Additional expectations are to support the existing team with undertaking any CHC related tasks. Duty, Safeguarding, Care planning, Personal Health Budget referrals, requiring key skills of communication, prioritisation and organisation.

About us

The Bedfordshire Luton and Milton Keynes (ICB) is responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of the Integrated Care System (ICS), namely: to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money; and help the NHS support broader social and economic development. Within this context, as the ICB develops as a statutory organisation, a significant challenge will be to determine how it effectively supports and enables place-based and local partnerships to take necessary action that will improve population health outcomes and reduce inequalities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To support the current CHC team deliver CHC related activities across the BLMK system which includes Luton, Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes.

The role will include - but not limited to:

Completion of Check lists and DST's and Fast Tracks.

Work streams are both remote and face to face and will be supported by the CHC team that are based in our 4 locations across the area.