Clinical Lead Community Palliative Care

Providing outstanding care as rated by CQC, Dorothy House provides compassionate, supportive and holistic care for people in our community with a life-limiting illness. Our focus is on quality of life, helping patients to live well and die well.

We are looking for a dynamic Registered Nurse leader who is motivated, forward thinking and has clinical experience in palliative and end of life care to lead our Community Palliative Care team in the East Somerset area. In addition to leading a responsive team, the post holder will need to be able to flex to the needs of our community, and seek innovative improvements in community based MDT working in collaboration with System partners.

CLINICAL LEAD - COMMUNITY PALLIATIVE CARE | Band 7 £43,742 - £50,056 per annum

As the Clinical Lead for the Community Palliative Care team, you will:

• Contribute to the delivery of the shared vision and strategy of the Patient and Family Services Directorate in order to deliver the Everyday Everyone Strategy and associated key Organisation Objectives.
• Lead and inspire a culture of continuous quality improvement and service development of new models of Community Palliative Care Teams.
• Demonstrate leadership of the organisational values and enable Palliative Care teams to embed a culture of work that reflects these values.
• Coach teams to develop matrix approach both internally within Dorothy House services and externally with other partner organisations and groups within the community to maximise service provision for people with end of life conditions.
• Lead and support teams to develop strong working relationships with partnership organisations to enhance knowledge and practice in Palliative Care for Care Homes and other areas.
• Provide nursing leadership in specialist Palliative Care through advice, support and education to the Community Palliative Care Teams (CPCT) and other health professionals.
• Manage a limited caseload providing specialist Palliative Care to those with a life threatening illness and their families in partnership with health and social care colleagues

See our full detailed Job Description on our website for more information.

HOURS OF WORK

This is a Full Time position working 37.5 hours over 5 Days, Monday to Friday.

ABOUT YOU

Due to the community based nature of the role, the post holder will need to hold a full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle.

Essential requirements:

• Registered Nurse
• Postgraduate or equivalent level of knowledge in a relevant subject
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Independent Prescriber or working towards qualification
• Clinical experience in specialist Palliative Care
• Management/ leadership skills experience
• Clinical assessment and analytical skills
• Self-motivated and able to work as part of a team including the Multi-disciplinary Team
• Ability to analyse data and research in practice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Confident in use of IT systems including patient systems
• Car driver essential to support the ability to deliver patient services across a geographical patch

Desirable requirements:

• Community qualification
• Relevant community experience

ABOUT THE BENEFITS

Dorothy House is an incredible place to work, these are just a few of our benefits that we offer to our staff:

• Generous holiday allowance for all roles, increasing with length of service
• Fantastic refer a friend scheme
• Excellent industry leading training and development programmes with many career development opportunities
• Pension with Life Assurance
• Travel and parking - We offer 45p per mile for work travel. There is unlimited free parking in Winsley.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Counselling and Mindful Employer Charter - providing our staff with information, advice and support for those experiencing stress, anxiety, depression or any other mental health conditions.
• Simply Health - Providing insurance against certain everyday healthcare costs such as dental and optical treatments.

If this sounds like your ideal job, then we'd love to see your application.

Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.

NEXT STEPS

Interviews will be conducted at the beginning of May.