About the role
Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the person’s preferred place.
You'll be
- Enhance End of Life Care by providing clinical expertise and advice, working in partnership across organisational boundaries to ensure care is built around the person and their family to provide timely care in the person’s preferred place.
- Support the delivery of clinically effective, efficient and high-quality care to people with complex specialist palliative care needs, ensuring that this care is both evidence-based and reflects current best practice.
- Using specialist skills and knowledge you will manage a caseload of patients and their families/carers with complex needs associated with living with a life challenging illness in a community setting.
- Act as a specialist resource across the whole system using a team approach to influence patient care through the indirect role of providing specialist education and training to multi-professional staff/students, statutory and voluntary agencies, undertaking research, audits and service development within palliative and end of life care.
- Joint management of the team.
- Participate in a 7-day rota.
- Provide expertise and advanced skills to facilitate and promote the individualised care of people with palliative and end of life care needs across Brighton and Hove and the Havens.
- Assess, review, support and ensure the safe and effective case management of patients with complex palliative and end of life care needs across a variety of care settings within the community.
- Offer continuing support and advice to family and carers and provide palliative and end of life care nursing advice to colleagues in both primary and secondary care settings.
- Link with staff across all providers to promote fully integrated team working.
- Participate in the promotion of patient-centred care, establishing and maintaining a supportive relationship with the patient and their family.
- Advocate for people as they approach their end of life, ensuring that their voice is heard by the promotion and support of advance care planning.
- Ensure that care is planned around the patient and family and individualised to meet the complexity of need.
- Receive and lead handover of patient information and status with relevant colleagues, to ensure that a seamless service is experienced by patients and their families.
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About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.
Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.
Benefits
- Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
- Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- On-site education support and study leave opportunities
- Option to access Medicash and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
- Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
- Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in Service
We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Your application and interview should give us an accurate and authentic picture of your skills and experiences. Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.
Before you submit an application, we will ask you to confirm the information you provide is true and accurate. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.
Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
