Clinical Support Assistant

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 here for anyone in our community who is facing a life-limiting illness. Using our full breadth of service, we create individual care journeys, which start at diagnosis and continue with bereavement support for family, carers and children.

CLINICAL SUPPORT ASSISTANT | Band 4 £25,417 - £27,596 per annum

The successful candidate duties will include:

• To participate in the development of services in line with the organisational strategic direction, to assist individuals to support "Death is a part of life", "Living Well", to lead to a "Peaceful death", incorporating a "Supported bereavement" and participate in developing/maintaining an "increase in income".
• Anticipate delivery of BAU Monday to Friday with urgent specialist palliative care follow up and assessments only over weekends and Bank holidays.
• To provide coaching support to the CPCT within the development of a new model of community palliative care.
• To work with the CPCT Clinical Lead to develop a program of continuous quality improvement and service development to improve patient, family, carer and staff experience.
• To work as part of a CPCT, to provide specialist palliative care to those with a life threatening illness and their
• To use learning opportunities to enhance the knowledge and skills of health and social care colleagues.
• To initiate and deliver formal training programmes in collaboration with the DH Education and Research and Training & Development Teams.

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, between Monday and Friday.

This position will be based in East Somerset.

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:

• Good standard of English and Maths
• Experience of working within a care environment
• Understanding of health and social care needs
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Can demonstrate good time, management and organisation skills
• Able to prioritise and manage workload
• Full UK Driving License with access to vehicle, due to the nature of this role being community based
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Can demonstrate good time, management and organisation skills
• Able to prioritise and manage workload
• Full UK Driving License with access to vehicle, due to the nature of this role being community based
  
  

Desirable requirements:

Qualification/training programme equivalent to NVQ level 3

• Experience of working with palliative care patients
• Experience of preparing, presenting teaching sessions
• Administrative skills/experience
• Background knowledge of therapy and its importance
• Group facilitation skills

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 end of April.