Key responsibilities Review eligibility for the NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care in a variety of settings including patients' own home, care home or other care facility. Review the care planning, to ensure that all care needs are being met safely and effectively. Monitor and influence the quality of care that is provided to patients; drawing on previous skills and knowledge to improve the patient experience of care. Provide professional advice to patients, carers and multi-agency colleagues, including signposting to appropriate services and resources. Triage new referrals as part of duty desk cover. Key working relationships Cheshire and Merseyside ICB leadership teams Chief Information Officers Digital Leads Clinical Leaders Colleagues within NHSE/I Senior leaders across Cheshire and Merseyside, NHS, local authorities and other third sector organisations Main duties and responsibilities First point of contact for referrals to service and provide duty nurse cover on allocated days. Understanding of PHBs. Coordinating assessment for NHS Funded Nursing Care and NHS Continuing Healthcare as close to the service user as feasible. To provide clinical commissioning oversight to applications and assessments concerning joint funded packages of care. Seek authorisation of eligibility recommendations via Line Manager. Case management as allocated by the Line Manager. On-going review of service users eligible for CHC, NHS funded care in accordance with National Framework for NHS Funded Care, and Joint funded care packages of care. Undertake urgent reviews of service users, where quality and safety concerns have been identified and report in a timely manner. Prepare and complete comprehensive documentation/tools to enable the level of NHS funding to be determined within the parameters of the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and Funded Nursing Care and Joint Funding arrangements locally. Accurately input information onto departmental databases and tools used in Continuing Healthcare adhering to NMC standards for record keeping. To quality assure external recommendations for CHC/FNC. Completing Continuing Healthcare Checklists, where appropriate, and that these are processed following service operating procedures. Provide assurance with regard to quality of care of individual packages by undertaking reviews as agreed. Support the delivery of local discharge to assess processes. Actively promote communication and partnership working between the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors. Communicate relevant information and provide advice and support on funded nursing/continuing health care to service users and carers. Liaise with other health professionals on clinical matters as part of the assessment process. Maintain professional confidentiality in all matters relating to patient care. Participate in informal and formal education and training as requested. Participate in clinical supervision and performance and development reviews. Promote positive awareness of the health and social care needs of adults and older people in conjunction with colleagues from the ICB/Community Trust and Local Authority. Contribute to team function by sharing own clinical skills/expertise and knowledge. Identify the training needs within the independent and statutory services and ensure this information is fed back appropriately. Promote understanding of the role and function of the team. Support ways of improving nursing assessment/care of adults and older people. Participate in clinical audit within the service. Mentoring and supervision of students as required. Support the development of, and participate in clinical supervision, evidence-based and reflective practice in order to develop self and the team. 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. Ensure personal access to best practice including up-to-date research evidence e.g. through NICE, in discharging professional responsibilities. Support the development of agile working, by updating assessments and uploading data securely, from alternative areas of work other than the operational base. 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 be reasonably 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 department and organisation. All staff are expected to adhere and complete the NHS Continuing Healthcare Competency Framework on an annual basis.