Head of Community Supportive Care
Post title: Head of Community Supportive Care [Hospice at Home]
Responsible to: Clinical Service Director
Type of contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5
Salary: £49,447 - £52,354 dependent on experience
Closing date: Friday 21st June 2024
Interview date: TBC
This post involves regular, direct unsupervised access to vulnerable adults and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
East Lancs Hospice
East Lancashire Hospice is a registered charity, founded in 1984. We support and care for patients with a life limiting illness, their families and others close to them. We provide this in a number of ways; at the hospice and in people’s own homes across our community of Blackburn, Darwen, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley.
With approximately 120 employees and over 250 volunteers, our people are our biggest asset whom we value tremendously. Our services to the local community would not be possible without our motivated and caring workforce who always strive to deliver excellence in all that they do. The hospice is a unique and special place, kindness and compassion are qualities that run throughout the hospice and our people truly believe in what we do.
Head of Hospice Community Supportive Care [Hospice at Home]
As part of service review and the increasing emphasis on provision of hospice care in our community, we have an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking individual, passionate about the development of excellence in palliative and end of life care and with well-developed post-registration clinical experience to have overall responsibility for the leadership and management of the Supportive Care Team.
You will hold overall responsibility for the clinical leadership, management and development of the Community Supportive Care team, contributing to clinical practice, role modelling the delivery of high-quality supportive care interventions while ensuring this is delivered with care, compassion and dignity to patients and those that matter to them while driving the development and delivery of the service in keeping with the clinical strategy.
You will work as an accountable and autonomous practitioner alongside the multi-professional team and have the autonomy to manage own time to ensure own contribution to clinical practice.
The Successful Candidate
The ideal candidate will have recent experience working in the field of Palliative and End of Life Care for people with a wide range of life limiting illness/complexity in addition to:
- An active NMC registration as a RN (Adult)
- Well-developed team leadership / management skills
- A strong commitment to community-based care provision and the creativity and can-do approach to achieve this where it is the person’s preference
- Enthusiasm and drive to develop the service across our communities
What we offer
If you would like to be part of a CQC outstanding rated organisation then this could be the role for you.
We have an excellent, collaborative working environment with a generous holiday allowance of 27 days + Bank Holidays with the option to buy additional days. You will have access to learning and development opportunities, ongoing training, wellbeing support and funded access to a private health scheme. There is also onsite parking and an onsite Café with reduced staff prices.
Aside from the terms and conditions detailed above, you will joining a very special and unique organisation, where people are at the heart of everything we do.
Equality and Diversity
We support an inclusive and holistic working environment and aim to empower our people to bring their authentic self to work. We are committed to this and so encourage applications from all individuals with the required skills for the role inclusive of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, colour, caste, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, socio-economic background, trade union membership status, marriage, and civil partnerships. ELH is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and volunteers.
Interested?
For further information relating to the job duties, please refer to the job description by clicking ‘Job Description’ below.
If you wish to apply for this post, please complete an application form CV and Supporting Statement which explains how you meet our needs can also be included and send directly to Recruitment@Eastlancshospice.org.uk
Please make sure you specify which job you are applying for, and include supporting information outlining your relevant skills and experience applicable to the job
Please note that references will not be contacted at this stage, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
All enquiries and further information regarding the above can be obtained from the recruiting manager.
Name: Carol Evans Clinical Services Director
Email: Carol.Evans@eastlancshospice.org.uk
Telephone: 01254 965831
Application forms and job descriptions are available to download from our website: www.eastlancshospice.org.uk
Please download:
Job Description
Application form
Alternatively, these documents can be obtained from the Recruitment team on: 01254 965833