Clinical Nurse Assessment Specialist

£40,000 per annum, plus £3,000 car allowance

Clinical Nurse Assessment Specialist (RGN/RMN/RNLD)

Position :Clinical Nurse Assessment Specialist

Location :Across all Exemplar Health Care homes, national role

Contract type :40 hours per week, predominately Monday to Friday but must be flexible

Rate :£40,000 per annum, plus £3,000 car allowance

About Exemplar Health Care

Exemplar Health Care is one of the country's leading nursing care providers for adults living with complex needs.

We have over 50 care homes across England that support adults living withcomplex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities and physical disabilities.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

Summary of the role

Reporting to the Senior Clinical Assessment Specialist, you'll work flexibly, as part of a highly motivated Clinical Assessment Team, supporting our specialist care homes to respond to an ever-growing number of service user referrals. The role is remote with travel to our portfolio of homes during your working hours.

We have an exciting and ambitious growth plan that aims to greatly expand our portfolio of homes over the coming years. We are therefore looking to further enhance our established function with the addition of this role. You will need to demonstrate passion, commitment and determination to ensure every referral to the organisation is managed to the highest standard and our customers receive an exemplary experience.

Key responsibilities

• Support our care homes to complete clinical pre-admission assessments, working closely alongside our operational and clinical colleagues. This involves flexibility to travel to different care settings nationwide within the allocated working day.
• Produce individual cost per care assessments that clearly demonstrate the specialist care package being proposed and the justification for the specific interventions and costs. This can be completed remotely from home
• Coach Clinical Nurse Managers and Home Managers in the assessment and costing processand be involved in delivering training.
• Support the processing of referrals received into the organisation, as requested by the Senior Clinical Assessment Specialist, working in conjunction with the Referrals and Occupancy Management Team.
• Uphold the company vision and drive the Exemplar Health Care strategy.
• Where required, support our homes with the reassessment of existing service users.
• Build relationships and opportunities with new and potential referrers.
• Attend conferences, events and networks to build relationships and raise Exemplar Health Care's profile where required.

About you

We're looking for someone who has:

• Registered with the NMC with an active pin, at least 2 years experience working as a Nurse (RGN/RMN/RNLD)
• an ability to conduct a thorough assessment of individual need and identify suitable packages of care to enable people to achieve their desired outcomes
• excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of staff and stakeholders
• a passion for working with individuals with complex health needs
• a desire to work as part a fast-paced, responsive team, to develop a systematic approach to referral management and ensure the highest standard of customer experience at all times.
• flexibility - the ability to work independently and as part of a team - goodorganisation skills, self-motivation is a must
• happy to travel to various different portfolio homes
• confidence in approach when representing Exemplar Health Care at internal, commissioner and contract meetings.

This is a nationwide role, covering our existing and new portfolio of homes, so the ability to drive and access to a car is essential.

Rewards and benefits of working at Exemplar Health Care

• Career development opportunities with access to CPD accredited training.
• Remote flexible working from home, Monday to Friday.
• Minimal on-call commitment to screen potential new referrals on a rota basis (currently one week in four).
• Competitive mileage for any distance further than your nearest Exemplar Health Care home.
• Pension contributions.
• My First Rewards - a fantastic rewards and benefits platform with exclusive lifestyle and retail discounts.
• Access to an award winning 24/7 employee counselling and support service, and an online Wellbeing Centre.

How to apply

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"There are many career opportunities at Exemplar Health Care and the support that I've received has been amazing. Everyone at Exemplar Health Care is committed to not only our residents, but each other. I am proud to be part of the Exemplar family."

Whether it's RCNi membership or NMC PIN payment for Nurses, or lifestyle and retail discounts for everyone, we're always thinking about new ways of saying 'thank you' for being part of our team.

Lifestyle and retail discounts - all colleagues can access great savings and monthly discounts on high street shops, restaurants, pubs and holidays, as well as 2-for-1 cinema tickets.

Employee Assistance Programme - all colleagues can access 24/7 counselling and support through our wellbeing partner, Care First.

Pension plan - after 3 months, you'll be auto-enrolled into our pension scheme with NOW pensions, where you'll have up to 5% of your earnings (depending on your salary) put into the pension and we'll contribute an additional 3%.

Paid DBS check - we'll pay for all new starters to have a DBS check, so you don't need to cover the cost.

Career development opportunities - there are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and progress in your career at Exemplar Health Care, if you wish.