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Do you have experience as a Band 5 or 6 Registered Children’s Nurse, or a social worker, physiotherapist or occupational therapist ideally with community experience, and experience with children or young people with complex health needs? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your career?
You will work closely with families to support the delivery of individualised care in the community for children and young people with continuing care needs. This is an opportunity for both personal and professional development and you will be given support and training within a supportive team environment.
Main duties of the job
NHS Sussex ICB is in the process of positively developing its Children’s Continuing Care (CYPCC) services and expanding our team. We are recruiting a Registered Children’s nurse or allied professional to join our existing Children’s continuing care team, to work across Sussex as a Pan Sussex CYPCC team assessor.
This role as assessor requires a compassionate approach, within a Multidisciplinary team, to establish eligibility using the NHS National framework for children and young persons continuing care, and liaising with Health, Social care, Education colleagues and other professional colleagues and agencies, to oversee, with band 7 support, the delivery of child specific packages of care. Line management and support will be given from the Band 7 Nurse Specialists within the team, and from the Pan Sussex Clinical Operational Lead nurse. Some experience of complex, long-term health conditions and working in the community with children and young people is desirable.
Communication and IT skills are essential to this role. The job is home based with some visits to families' homes, schools and respite or residential settings across Sussex will be required.
If you would like to find out more about this exciting opportunity, please contact Kylie Standen at kylie.standen@nhs.net.
This is a secondment/fixed term post until 12 January 2026.
About us
NHS Sussex ICB are committed to enabling team members to work in an agile and flexible way. We adopt a flexible first approach to working patterns. We empower our people to work where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to support their wellbeing to sustain good work life balance and to optimise performance and delivery.
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Agile working is not just related to working from different locations or at different times. It is about effectively utilising technology to improve work practices and to work differently to increase our overall effectiveness to improve health outcomes for our population.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team at scw.peopleresource@nhs.net to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff, you will be encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.
Job responsibilities
This post is situated within the NHS Sussex Team. Staff will support each other in service delivery across Sussex for all children and young people registered with a Sussex GP. This will require the post holder to work across the Sussex wide county in order to meet the needs of the service.
The Nurse Assessor is responsible for:
* Supporting the commissioning of health care packages at home for CYPCC eligible children and other community settings to prevent hospital admissions; in addition, they will help support early discharge from hospital where ever possible, working with the Well Child nurse for Pan Sussex.
* In the absence of Nurse Specialists, act in a deputising role, which would include undertaking duty management and responding to package breakdowns, enquiries for new referrals, checklists and prioritising workload.
* To help support the daily duty system for CYPCC across Pan Sussex, working with the duty nurses; responding in a timely manner to support the Pan Sussex caseload.
* Acting as a member of the multidisciplinary team to coordinate the process, establish eligibility and assist in identifying a suitable care package or respite setting. The post holder will be responsible to ensure that the review process for all commissioned care is undertaken in accordance with current guidance.
* Assessing children and young people in the community/home and hospitals to determine eligibility to receive NHS Children’s Continuing Care. Utilising the national assessment tools and adhere to the required timescales. Co-ordinate, participate and support the assessment process with the multidisciplinary team (MDT). The role will be part of the MDT and determine the individuals eligibility in line with the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care. This will encompass explaining the process to patients and families, health and social care colleagues and care providers. Ensuring that the process is transparent and clearly understood by all parties. Clinical leads for CYPCC will support throughout this process.
* Assist when required with the monitoring and providing assurance on the quality of service providers for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care, this includes residential placements and short breaks environments.
* Advising CHC Procurement on clinical needs and best practice in relation to services for children with complex health needs and providing clinical input to all parts of the commissioning process.
* Working alongside the NHS Sussex PHB team, assist with the personal health budget (PHB) process for children’s families/carers who would like to be in receipt of a personal health budget and ensure that the NHS Sussex’s procedures are monitored alongside the PHB navigator.
* To be responsible for planning, managing, co-ordinating and undertaking annual reviews of the Children and young people eligible for Continuing Health Care, within the Pan Sussex caseload. Responding to any health needs reported and reviewing the DST and care package accordingly.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current & relevant NMC registration Registered Nurse or Children’s Nurse
* Other allied professional with experience of working with children with complex health needs e.g. Registered physiotherapist, occupational therapist or speech and language therapist
* Degree or equivalent level of experience
Experience
* Relevant nursing experience gained in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment
* Wide experience of cross-sector partnership working
* Experience of working with service users and carers including case management
* Good understanding of National Framework for Children and Young People's Continuing Care and its application in practice
Knowledge
* Highly developed specialist knowledge of Children and Young Peoples continuing healthcare process underpinned by theory and experience
* Demonstrable relative experience and knowledge of current key policies and priorities
* Understanding of service provision for the client group
* Understanding of relevant current NHS and social care market mechanisms
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.
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