Permanent Jobs in Atcham, shropshire, united kingdom

Job Introduction

Nurse Assessor - Office hours at home then travel for face to face Assessments

Salary : £40,000 - £45,000

Gray Healthcare is a specialist Health and Social Care provider, supporting people with complex needs, disabilities and long-term conditions looking to step back into the community from in-patient support services. At Gray Healthcare, we offer our own dynamic approach to care, enabling people to move back into their own homes - into their own communities – giving them control of their life. We create a bespoke support package for each individual, with support from our own multi-disciplinary team, adaptable to meet all current and future needs.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Head of Nursing, you will lead on clinical assessments ensuring that we are able to deliver individualised support packages. You will work closely with the Assessment and Contracts Manager to ensure the packages are deliverable and in line with our model of support across an agreed geographical area.

Main Responsibilities :

• Completing desk-based and face to face assessments of referred people for support.
• Ensuring an APIE approach - Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating.
• To review reports and evidence outcome measures to inform clinical practice, business performance and quality measures. To maintain continuous professional development and be able to produce your CPD folder upon request.
• Able to identify and mitigate complex risks for a community setting.
• To review pre-admission assessment in a timely and professional manner.
• Producing clinically informed assessments with robust risk assessment and identifying risk mitigation measures.
• Identify measures to ensure people can be enable through positive support.
• Attend internal and external MDT meetings to further informed assessment and risk mitigation.
• Building professional working relationships.
• Effective time management.
• Record keeping, ensuring that accurate safe and contemporaneous records are maintained. To effectively work alongside stakeholders and other external professionals
• Complete assessments based on current information, that are evidence based and which identify risk mitigation.
• Identify which completed assessments can be progressed to Business Development for presentation to Commissioners as they fit within our model of support and can be safely supported by Gray Healthcare.

To be considered for the role you must closely match the following criteria :