Clinical Lead

NHS South West London ICB is looking for experienced, registered healthcare professionals to join our All Age Continuing Care (AACC) service as Clinical Leads.

You will be responsible for a team of adult and learning disability professionals who assess people's eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) and NHS-funded Nursing Care (FNC) and review care packages for existing patients. You will make sure assessments and reviews are timely, records are accurate, and funding recommendations are evidence based and made in line with the National Framework, working with patients and their families so that decisions are transparent.As part of the AACC clinical leadership team, you will make sure effective clinical governance is in place and act as the service's safeguarding lead. You will join the senior duty rota, handling fast track applications, Checklist referrals, complex cases, verification sign-off and panels for disputed cases, and you will line manage the Senior Nurse Assessors.You will bring experience of clinical assessment and review of CHC patients, excellent knowledge of AACC national and local policy, experience of managing and
motivating a team, and the ability to handle highly complex and sensitive information and negotiate with senior stakeholders., o Lead the day-to-day operational management of the CHC and learning disability team, making sure assessments and 3- and 12-month reviews are timely and the service meets its KPIs.o Join the senior duty rota, overseeing the duty team, ratifying non-disputed CHC and FNC applications, and chairing panels for disputed cases where needed.o Make sure CHC verification and panel decisions are transparent and robust, and give the ICB assurance that funding decisions represent value for money.o Embed the agreed case management tool to support timely assessments, record keeping and performance management.o Act as the safeguarding lead for the service, making sure safeguarding, MCA and related policies are embedded in the team's practice.o Lead on clinical and practice standards, the AACC audit plan and peer review, and investigate complaints so that learning is shared.o Work with the PHB Programme Lead to manage personal health budgets for adults receiving CHC, making sure care plans are in place,
up to date and regularly reviewed.o Prepare high-quality briefings, reports and presentations for the Senior Clinical Lead, and communicate with partners including trusts, hospices, local authorities and NHS England., an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services

an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.

ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):

to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;

tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;

enhance productivity and value for money and;

help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.

On 1 July 2022, NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established. The ICB, as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.