About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 7 Clinical Lead Nurse to join the All Age Continuing Care (AACC) service within North East and North Cumbria ICB.
This is a senior clinical leadership role, providing expert oversight and professional leadership across All Age Continuing Care including NHS Continuing Healthcare, and Complex Care pathways. The post holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and person-centred care, in line with the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and Complex Care Pathways.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Please note this post is only accepting applications from current staff members of North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board and staff members of North of England Commissioning Support (NECS).
Main duties of the job
The role
As a Clinical Lead Nurse, you will:
Provide day-to-day clinical leadership and specialist advice across the All Age Continuing Care service Support complex decision-making, quality assurance, and consistency of eligibility and funding decisions Lead on complex case management, risk management, and safeguarding Provide professional supervision, mentorship, and support to nursing and multidisciplinary staff Contribute to service development, transformation, and continuous improvement Act as a key link with local authority partners, acute trusts, mental health services, and wider system partners You will also support the service in meeting statutory responsibilities, managing performance, addressing backlog and risk, and embedding best practice across the region.
About us
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.
The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.
With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.
The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.
Job description Job responsibilities
Lead a team of registered professionals to deliver the core functions of AACC. Provide expert clinical oversight of the application to the National Continuing Care Frameworks including eligibility decisions, disputes, appeals and PuPoCs.Where required support as a key leader in the delivery of national programmes such as Transforming Care and Inpatient Quality Transformation, LeDeR, S117 Aftercare, Neurorehabilitation and Complex Care. Where appropriate to the role ensure individuals are offered C(E)TRs in line with national guidance and within required timeframes, engaging with people with lived experience, their families, and carers to embed effective C(E)TR delivery within the local area. Attend MDTs and Predischarge meetings to support discharge for people with complex needs to ensure that they are supported appropriately in the appropriate placement that meets their needs. Participate in the operational aspects of the Learning from Lives and Deaths - People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People (LeDeR) programme and carry out LeDeR reviews as and when required, in accordance with nationally agreed standards and key performance indicators. Directly supervise the team in relation to Human Resources, e.g., absence management/sickness, appraisal and work performance. Ensure that assessments and reviews are carried out promptly according to national specifications.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
NMC or SWE Current Registration Degree masters level study in addition to post graduate diploma level specialist knowledge and/or equivalent experience. Valid UK driving licence.
Experience Essential
Extensive post registration experience, some of which will be at senior clinical level. Previous experience of working in a leadership role and the ability to plan and prioritise workload of the team. Extensive clinical experience of NHS Continuing Care. Experience of liaising with statutory and non- statutory services and agencies. Research or audit experience. Previous experience communicating with senior management within the organisation. Acute experience. Experience working with Learning Disabilities or Mental Health. Experience of interpreting national and local policies related to All Age Continuing Care and case management. Experience of reviewing costs associated with care packages and making recommendations. Experience of ensuring compliance with documentation and accuracy of collation of information. Experience of ensuring compliance with documentation and accuracy of collation of information. Experience of participating in audit and service improvement. Experience of working autonomously within national policy and organisational policies.
Desirable
Community experience.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North East & North Cumbria ICB
Address North Ormesby Health Village
Unit 14 - Trinity Mews
Middlesbrough
TS3 6AL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://northeastnorthcumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)