Senior Individual Assessment and Commissioning Nurse

• Lead on assessment and case management
• Commission safe, effective, and tailored care packages
• Ensure care is delivered in a timely, person-centred, and outcome-focused way
• Work collaboratively with patients, families, providers, and multidisciplinary teams
• Navigate and apply national policy, guidance, and legislation
• Support safe and timely hospital discharges and transitions of care
• Contribute to performance targets, quality standards, and service improvement

• Monday to Friday
• 08:00 am - 16:00 or 09:00 - 17:00
• No weekends or bank holidays

• Be a registered nurse (Adult, Mental Health, or Learning Disabilities)
• Have strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills
• Be confident working across complex and evolving care needs
• Demonstrate excellent communication and partnership working
• Be organised, proactive, and committed to delivering high-quality outcomes
• Ability to facilitate MDT meetings, produce robust reports capturing care needs (including utilisation of Microsoft Office for accurate documentation)

• A supportive and inclusive team environment
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression
• A role that supports excellent work-life balance
• Being part of a service that drives innovation and excellence in commissioning
• A culture that values diversity, respect, and collaboration

• Recruiting based on merit, ability, and potential
• Creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected
• Promoting a culture of openness, learning, and continuous improvement

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of qualification or experience in working at a similar level in specialist area
• Nursing qualification or equivalent, for example Occupational Health, Physiotherapist, Social Worker etc with current registration.
• Evidence of CPD

Essential

• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Conversant with national and local guidance on NHS continuing health care and NHS Funded Care
• Strong understanding of the operational management and clinical role of the NHS
• Understanding of the patient experience agenda & its contribution to quality
• Knowledge & understanding of the current NHS agenda and of primary care
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload effectively and make informed decisions working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Ability to analyse cases where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Previous experience of caseload management.
• Track record in clinical quality & performance activities.
• Experience of partnership working with other agencies.

Desirable

• Understanding of the commissioning agenda including its scope, structure, methods of operation, processes and inter-relationships
• Understanding of Local Authority functions.
• A good understanding of personalised care, in particular personal health budgets

Essential

• High level of interpersonal skills; excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of individuals.
• Capability to work across boundaries and foster close collaboration.
• Ability to build effective working relationships across a range of health care and other organisations.
• IT Skills, ability to use Microsoft Office programmes (Word, Outlook). Accurate data entry and text processing skills
• Negotiation and conflict management skills and the ability to influence.
• Flexibility and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment.