Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing, Continuing Healthcare, CHC, AACC
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9.00 -17.00)
- Job ref
- 095-7270788-TS-A
- Employer
- NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kent House
- Town
- Ashford
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CHC Nurse Assessor
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
As a registered nurse with interest in NHS Continuing Healthcare and Funded Nursing Care, you will join the busy AACC team delivering all aspects of the CHC framework.
This job helps improve outcomes for patients, service users and populations by:
Applying the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (NF) in a fair, consistent and robust way by completing robust CHC assessments for all Kent and Medway residents and ensuring the safe and effective care delivery for CHC eligible patients in line with the organisations commissioning function.
Main duties of the job
Under the guidance and support of the Clinical Lead, the Nurse Assessor will assess individuals for NHS Continuing Healthcare. Applying the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (NF) in a fair and consistent way by completing robust CHC assessments for all Kent and Medway residents and ensuring the safe and effective care delivery for CHC eligible patients in line with the organisations commissioning function and the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing care, revised July 2022.
Working for our organisation
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.
All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse – Adult, Mental Health, Learning Disability, Childrens Nurse
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a wide range of clinical settings
Skills
Essential criteria
- Robust understanding of the application of the National Framework
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elizabeth Hall
- Job title
- Associate Director AACC
- Email address
- [email protected]
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