Senior Nurse/Professional Adults CHC

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
Senior Nurse/Professional Adults CHC
The closing date is 24 November 2026
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Job summary
NHS South Yorkshire integrated Care Board (SY ICB) Sheffield Place has an exciting opportunity for you to join the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) team. We require a registered nurse (RGN, RMN) to support our dynamic and welcoming Continuing Healthcare team.

The Sheffield CHC team are an innovative and friendly team who deliver a service to the population of Sheffield. This is a great opportunity to be involved in a team, who are working with the Local Authority and other partner organisations, towards a more integrated approach in how we assess and meet an individuals ongoing care needs.

We are looking for an experienced registered nurse to work within the CHC team as Senior Nurse Case manager. Our nurses look at the whole process, by first determining eligibility for NHS funding through utilisation of the Decision Support Tool (DST), procuring and reviewing care needs and care managing according to individuals requirements. The work is at times challenging but also very rewarding. There are further opportunities to work in our other sub-teams to support service delivery.

If you have excellent communication skills and a motivation to succeed, we will welcome your application.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for coordinating the Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) eligibility assessment of an individuals needs in regard to eligibility for CHC.

• Identifying and securing the involvement of the MDT which will assess the individuals needs and will then use this information to complete the DST supporting MDT members to understand the role they will need to undertake in participating in a multidisciplinary assessment and completing the DST.
• Facilitating CHC assessments for patients across all aspects of care.

This necessitates a high level of assessment skills and requiring tact, diplomacy and the ability to liaise effectively with colleagues, health care professionals, patients' carers and family members. The post holder will require Registered Nurse qualification.

• Supporting the person (and those who may be representing them) to play a full role in the eligibility consideration process, including ensuring that they understand the process, they have access to advocacy or other support where required, and organising the overall process in a manner that maximises their ability to participate.
• Providing highly specialist advice in relation to the National Framework for CHC eligibility in complex situations, necessitating a high level of interpersonal and communication skills. This includes care procurement incorporating personal health budgets, and ongoing care management and reviews of eligible individuals and providing information in a timely manner.

About us
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local communities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000 voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider determinants of health in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer

Details
Date posted: 10 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: D9133-2004
Job locations: Eyre Street, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 3FG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Ensuring that there is a clear timetable for the decision-making process, and DST processes are completed in accordance with the requirements in the National Framework.
• Ensuring that there is a clear timetable for the decision-making process, having regard to the expectation that decisions should usually be made within 28 days of the Checklist being received.
• Acting as an impartial resource to the MDT and the individual on any policy or procedure questions that arise.
• Ensuring that the MDTs recommendation on eligibility is sent for ratification through the relevant local decision-making processes in a timely manner.
• Ensuring timely "End of life" care procurement and ongoing management for individual eligible for the Fast Track pathway within the CHC service.
• Completing CHC / FNC / Joint Funded / Fastrack reviews in a timely manner in line with the national framework. As a care manager, will co-ordinate and undertake ongoing care package reviews for individuals and liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that the package is able to meet needs safely and in accordance with Sheffields Commissioning Care Principles for those who are eligible.
• Ability to communicate complex information and handle sensitive conversations in a way which supports understanding of the recipient.
• Providing relevant continuing healthcare advice to secondary care, primary care, nursing homes etc. in relation to the continuing healthcare process. Developing and maintaining effective and appropriate communication networks with health and social care professionals and act as a resource to them.
• Interpreting national and regional guidance relating to the implementation of the National Framework and subsequent developments within the CHC service.
• Exercising professional judgement as necessary when communicating information on behalf of the CHC service and application of the associated criteria.
• Working with relevant health professionals, CHC colleagues, business support staff, senior leads and other support staff within the CHC team to ensure delivery of quality premiums and products required.
• Delivering specialist formal and non-formal education programs to Community and hospital staff including nursing/residential homes, GPs, community nursing and therapy staff relating to the assessment and management of CHC patient groups in line with the latest research, evidence and DHSC/NICE guidance.
• It is expected that care managers will operate as part of a wider team, providing cover for each others caseloads during periods of leave (absence) and an ongoing inter-team support network, ensuring the needs of the whole patient group are met with a consistent and best practice orientated approach.
• The post holder will hold and manage an active case load, providing care management for individuals who are eligible for full NHS funding in order to meet their identified care needs.
• The post holder will be involved in identifying appropriate care placements and setting up a package of care delivery to meet identified assessed care needs. They will present these to the ICB Sheffield resource panel to inform and advise how an individuals identified care needs can be met.
• The post holder will represent individuals who are care managed, attending MDT meetings, at times instigating and leading on these meetings, around decision making processes, such as assessment of mental capacity and best interest decision making.
• The post holder will take an active role in risk management and safeguarding of all individuals on their active caseload, liaising with other professionals and attending meetings as and when required.
• The post holder will be required to be an autonomous practitioner, able to work independently and routinely travel significant distances both within and out of Sheffield as the needs of the case load require.
• As an experienced member of the Continuing healthcare team the post holder will be able to provide guidance, training and support to other team members.
• The Sheffield Continuing Healthcare team can take students; the post holder will be expected to work with and support these students and act as a mentor to them.
• Ensure adherence to relevant confidentiality and GDPR regulations at all times, and meeting of NMC code of conduct around record keeping and management.
• Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of NHS SYICB, comply with all the requirements of these policies and also actively promote Equality and Diversity issues relevant to the post.
• Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candor are observed and upheld in all working practices.
• The post holder will have, or acquire through training provided by the organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge, skills and practice required for the post and be aware of and comply with the organisations safeguarding protection policies and procedures.
• Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/Infection Prevention and Control.

Person Specification
Skills and Competencies
Essential

• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads based on changing and often tight deadlines.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Able to deal with challenging people and to cope with confidential and sensitive information.
• Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, on complex matters and difficult situations.
• Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately from or to diverse audiences.
• Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate complex issues, and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues.
• Standard keyboard skills.
• Knowledge and use of a range of software i.e. Microsoft Office.

Experience
Essential

• Relevant Clinical or Professional Experience in relation to the role and level of autonomy.
• Experience of building productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of identifying risks, issues and dependencies.
• Experience in planning, preparing, monitoring and reporting of project plans to progress.
• Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
• Previous experience in a healthcare or public sector environment.
• A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.

Desirable

• Experience in supporting project/programmes.
• Experience of building productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of how projects run.

Qualifications
Essential

• Required to have a Nurse Registration/Professional Registration.
• Educated to a degree level or equivalent or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Further training or significant experience to post-graduate diploma level in project management.

Attributes
Essential

• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
• Professional calm and efficient manner.
• Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• Adaptability, flexibility to work and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
• Ability to change ways of working to aid cooperation within and between teams in order to achieve results.
• Fosters good working relationships and values difference.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
Address: Eyre Street, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 3FG, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: CHC Nursing Manager, Suzanne Ashworth, View email address on meeveem.com

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