Job summary
This is an exciting role within the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) team which is a busy operational team within Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB. The team works closely with local community providers, Hertfordshire Community Trust, Hertfordshire County Council as well as two providers of acute care; East & North Herts NHS Trust and Princess Alexandra Hospital. The team currently have 4 full-time posts available. The post-holder can be based at any of the ICB's sites located at Welwyn Garden City or Hemel Hempstead.
Main duties of the job
The main focus of the role will be to deal with commissioning and procurement issues, administration and sourcing of appropriate placements for patients, to maintain accurate records and support all aspects of work within the Adult Continuing Healthcare team. The post holder will support the Commissioning Manager and Head of Service to ensure that there is sufficient, good quality Nursing Homes and Homecare Providers to meet the needs of people who are assessed as being eligible for CHC. The ideal candidate will have experience of procuring placements and packages of care (POC) in either a CHC or Social Care environment. If you have the energy, enthusiasm, values and drive that are required for this post we invite you to apply. Previous applicants need not apply.
About us
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality. The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex. It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim. So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Educated to NVQ 3 level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
2. Significant administrative/ secretarial experience including initiating and maintaining office systems
3. Demonstrable experience in dealing with the public and dealing with sensitive and confidential information
4. Intermediate knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access.
5. Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment and able to multi-task