Senior Clinical Assessor

Job summary

Passionate about people?

Thrive on advocating for your patients and negotiating the best outcomes?

Great clinical assessment and case management skills?

If this describes you...then read on!

We are excited to announce new opportunities within our Hampshire and Isle of Wight All Age Continuing Care Specialist s117 Aftercare and Acquired Brain Injury Team. We are looking for people who are passionate about patient care and improving life opportunities who share our behaviours of being person centred, honest, courageous, innovative, and collaborative. Posts are available working across Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight.

Please note this is a secondment opportunity but we also have permanent positions available.

Main duties of the job

Main responsibilities

• Conducting annual reviews and applying principles of positive risk taking, strengths-based approach and least restrictive practice to packages of care
• Supporting the Multi-Disciplinary Team to screen and approve new funding applications
• Participating in discharge planning meetings, Care Programme Approach and Care and Treatment Reviews
• Providing proactive case management to individual complex and rehabilitation clients
• Facilitating timely discharges from acute hospitals and placements where clients are no longer gaining benefit from that service

Main attributes

• You will be highly organised, flexible and have a positive 'can do' attitude.
• Be highly motivated and keen to learn/develop
• Be accustomed to a high degree of autonomy on a day-to-day basis
• Be able to assimilate large amounts of information and have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with attention to detail
• Ability to develop relationships and foster effective networks with key stakeholders, families and carers
• Be able to assess and prescribe care dependent on the individuals holistic health and care needs
• Have a strong value set around quality and patient/carer experience
• Have excellent time management skills and thrive on working at pace
• Have excellent knowledge of Microsoft office and have intermediate typing skills
• Be local or be able to commit to regular onsite working and able to travel daily across the county and occasionally countrywide

Job responsibilities

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence