Adult Social Care (ASC) Nurse Consultant

Role: Adult Social Care (ASC) Nurse Consultant
Salary: Grade K £46,142 - £49,282 a year
Location: The Council House/Home Working
Hours: 37 hours a week
Closing Date: 11 June 2026
Contract Type: Permanent

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a brand-new team supporting Derby City Council’s Adult Social Care (ASC) Services on their continuous improvement journey. Situated within the Adults Commissioning, Integration, and Market Development service area, this new team and role will work across five ASC service areas spanning the Council’s diverse social work, safeguarding and therapy teams, supporting a range of activities in collaboration with colleagues and departments internally and externally to the organisation.

As our ASC Nurse Consultant, you will use your expertise to shape fair, safe and timely care decisions for Derby City residents. You will lead on Continuing Health Care (CHC)/ Funded Nursing Care (FNC) and joint funding practice, bringing clarity to complex cases, strengthening quality and safeguarding, and helping people get the right care and support.
In your trusted nursing capacity, you will help ensure some of the most important decisions in ASC are made safely, fairly and lawfully. The role will comprise a mix of casework, report writing, attending multi-agency meetings, provider liaison, and visits across different locations, supporting people with complex needs and raising quality and efficiency across the wider system. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Leading CHC/ FNC and joint funding best practice, ensuring strong compliance with the National Framework;
• Completing and quality-checking CHC assessments and reviews (including Checklist/ DST/ Fast Track/ Joint Funding Applications as appropriate) and coordinating multi-agency input;
• Analysing clinical evidence and producing clear, defensible recommendations and high-quality reports;
• Presenting cases at panel and supporting reviews, disputes and appeals with robust rationale and strong influencing skills;
• Providing expert nursing advice on physical and mental health needs and provision, supporting holistic risk-managed care planning and placement decisions;
• Driving quality and safeguarding improvements by identifying themes/ risks and working with providers and colleagues to act early

Adult Social Care sits as part of the Council’s People Services directorate which is responsible for the delivery of public health, adults, childrens and young people’s services, and safeguarding. We aim to improve the health and wellbeing of the local population and make sure that care is of high quality, person-led and targeted to those in most need. We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our dynamic and friendly team.

The role will be based primarily in Derby City Council House with flexibility for home working and visits to people and settings as required.

Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.

What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:

• Flexible work/life balance scheme
• Hybrid working
• Modern office environment
• Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
• Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
• Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
• Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
• Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
• Support for colleagues who are carers

Next Steps

Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Karamjit Chhoker (Kam), 01332 640777 or karamjit.chhoker@derby.gov.uk for an informal discussion and more details.

If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.

The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 11 June 2026. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to KaramjitChhoker@derby.gov.uk. Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to recruitment.team@derby.gov.uk, however this is optional and will not affect your application.

Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/