Senior Specialist Clinical Lead All Age Continuing Care
Agenda for Change Band 7
Job Overview
NHS Devon ICB seeks to recruit an experienced individual to support in the delivery of the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care.
This role will provide professional leadership, advice and expertise to ensure delivery of a high-quality standard of clinical assessment, review and management of CHC and joint funded cases working collaboratively with key partners to achieve best outcomes.
The post holder will provide advice, support, supervision, and line management to a range of practitioners, ensuring that they deliver the highest quality and most appropriate services to patients whilst driving continuous service improvement.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and CHC experienced registered health or social care professional. We welcome AHPs, Social Workers, and nurses from multiple disciplines who are looking to move into a more senior role within AACC.
Main Duties of the Job
Our aim is to ensure individuals encounter improved experiences, transparency, and consistency across all forms of continuing care, with a smooth transition between services and resource provision.
It is important that everyone receives an equal and comparable, good quality, consistent, high standard, person-centred experience.
As a senior specialist, you will work under the guidance and support of a Principal Quality Assurance Lead to implement the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care.
You will support the high-quality delivery of clinical assessments and case management, working collaboratively with key partners to achieve best outcomes.
You will need excellent communication and assessment skills, be able to provide expert CHC advice and guidance to support staff involved with the assessment, planning, and management of patients with complex health needs.
As well as provide line-management to AACC staff, ensuring that they have the support that they require to deliver the highest quality and appropriate services to patients and to drive continuous service improvement.
Successful candidates will need to have a flexible attitude and be a team player who enjoys working within a fast-paced service.
Hybrid working - Mainly working from home.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
For full details of the role requirements please refer to the job description and person specification attached to this advert.
Person Specification
Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications
* Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
* Relevant postgraduate degree or equivalent level of experience.
* Experience of working within the All Age Continuing Care pathway.
* Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
* Experience of managing risks and reporting.
* Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at a senior level.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Member of relevant professional bodies.
* Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
* Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
Communication Skills
* Skilled communicator with the ability to construct and deliver concise yet insightful communications on complex matters, for dissemination to diverse audiences.
* Capable of navigating complex and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence skills to deliver clear ideas and concepts where there may be barriers to understanding.
* Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
Analytical Skills
* Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
* Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
* Ability to analyse and interpret very complex information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues.
* Problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
Planning Skills
* Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Management Skills
* Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
Autonomy / Freedom to Act
* Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Others
* An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
* Strong adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
* Professional calm and efficient manner.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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