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Job overview

The CHC Case Manager will ensure that the health care needs for Continuing Heathcare (CHC) are identified and met in accordance with the National Framework.

The post holder will ensure that they adhere at all times to the relevant National Framework and guidance, NMC Code of Professional Conduct and work within established policies, procedures, protocols and systems ensuring quality standards and performance as directed by the Specialist Nurse

Required for the role:

• Registered Nurse RGN, RMN or RNLD or Allied Health Professional with qualification.
• Significant knowledge of the CHC framework and its application
• Good knowledge of NHS and social services guidance.
• Strong knowledge base around safeguarding children and adults
• Evidence of teaching/mentorship
• Clinical knowledge base in order to ensure comprehensive holistic assessment for continuing care
• A background that can demonstrate clinical experience in a healthcare setting including inter-agency and multi-agency working
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Competent in IT including good typing skills. Able to work with a database, Excel, Microsoft

Please note - those previously unsuccessful at interview need not apply. 

Main duties of the job

Are you a registered nurse looking for a new challenge or next step in your career?

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated registered nurse with excellent assessment and communication skills.

As a Continuing Healthcare Case Manager you will be responsible for completing assessments and reviews of continuing healthcare, funded nursing care and joint funded commissioned packages ensuring people are receiving high quality safe and effective care and provide expert advice to other professionals commissioned to provide care.

This is an opportunity for both personal and professional development and you will be given suitable training to enable to complete assessments within the framework for CHC.

You will be required to travel across Lincolnshire to undertake your your role.  

You will develop strong links with health and social care colleagues to ensure multi-disciplinary working across health and social care boundaries to obtain robust evidence to support NHS CHC eligibility.

The successful candidate for this post will need to be self-motivated and able to work under their own initiative, work autonomously as well as within a team and have excellent time management skills.  People management skills and the ability to deal with difficult and challenging situations is also essential.

Working for our organisation

NHS ICB is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. Individuals are at the heart of everything we do and it’s important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.

In conjunction, with individuals experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme; system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.

The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB’s objectives and financial sustainability.