Job overview
Are you an experienced and compassionate nurse looking for your next challenge?
We’re looking for a Continuing Healthcare (CHC) Nurse Assessor to join our dedicated team, supporting individuals across Torbay and South Devon.
As a CHC Nurse Assessor, you’ll be responsible for the specialist assessment of health needs for individuals in their own homes, residential accommodation, or hospital settings.
You’ll play a key role in managing the Fast Track process and coordinating complex care for clients eligible for Continuing Healthcare, ensuring all health needs are met to the highest standard. Your assessments will include providing clear written evidence to support eligibility decisions.
You’ll be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team that values flexibility, professional development, and compassionate care. We’re committed to helping you grow your career while maintaining a healthy work/life balance.
What you'll do
- Act with care, compassion, and respect, particularly when supporting people at the end of life.
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues across disciplines to plan and deliver holistic care.
- Promote the CHC Nurse Assessor role as a vital part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT).
- Support and mentor nursing students on placement, maintaining a consistent and high-quality approach to assessment.
- Undertake retrospective CHC applications and manage the Rapid Deterioration process as required.
Main duties of the job
- To ensure that individuals who receive packages of care can choose how, and where they receive that care
- To allow people who are being assessed for health funding to have a voice, whether directly or through representation from a chosen advocate
- To respect diversity, striving always to adjust in order to achieve equality in health and care delivery
- To value every individual as autonomous, allowing them to make their own decisions about how they choose to live, even when those choices carry with them a level of risk
- Undertake case management for complex clients to ensure high standards of care are provided that meet the assessed needs
- Agree Fast track applications and ensure that an appropriate Package of care is in place
- Monitor and report on the quality-of-care delivery within Nursing Homes, Residential Homes and within Domiciliary Care providers
- To ensure that the CHC process is implemented in a timely, efficient and transparent manner in accordance with the National Framework
- Support the acute and community hospital with requests for discharge to nursing and specialist placements
- Promote close working relationships between the Local Authority and the NHS and disseminate good practice
- Provision of specific advice and guidance on the National Framework to clients their representatives, relatives, independent sector, NHS and Social care staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To ensure that individuals who receive packages of care can choose how, and where they receive that care
- To allow people who are being assessed for health funding to have a voice, whether directly or through representation from a chosen advocate
- To respect diversity, striving always to adjust in order to achieve equality in health and care delivery
- To value every individual as autonomous, allowing them to make their own decisions about how they choose to live, even when those choices carry with them a level of risk
- Undertake case management for complex clients to ensure high standards of care are provided that meet the assessed needs
- Agree Fast track applications and ensure that an appropriate Package of care is in place
- Monitor and report on the quality-of-care delivery within Nursing Homes, Residential Homes and within Domiciliary Care providers
- To ensure that the CHC process is implemented in a timely, efficient and transparent manner in accordance with the National Framework
- Support the acute and community hospital with requests for discharge to nursing and specialist placements
- Promote close working relationships between the Local Authority and the NHS and disseminate good practice
- Provision of specific advice and guidance on the National Framework to clients their representatives, relatives, independent sector, NHS and Social care staff
- Acting with care and compassion when planning care provision
- Making every effort to respect the wishes of people at the end of their lives
- Maintaining working relationships and treating colleagues of all disciplines with respect
- To promote the role of CHC Nurse assessor as a multi-skilled specialist Nursing role and an integral part of the MDT
- Support and teach nursing students on placement within the team
- To maintain a good consistent standard of assessment
- Undertake retrospective CHC applications/Rapid Deterioration process as agreed
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This advert is for Continuing Healthcare Specialist Nurse Assessor with Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust in Torquay, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 10 Jun 2026.
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