Head of Adult Social Care

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom East Lancashire Hospice Full time
Head of Community Supportive Care [Hospice at Home]

Responsible to:
Clinical Service Director

Type of contract:
Permanent
This post involves regular, direct unsupervised access to vulnerable adults and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
We support and care for patients with a life limiting illness, their families and others close to them. 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.

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

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.
Equality and Diversity

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.

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