Head of Wellbeing and Spiritual Care

2 weeks ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom Primary Care Careers Full time

**About the Role**:
As the head of wellbeing and spiritual care, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the holistic care and support provided to children and their families within our hospices. You will have a strategic focus on developing and implementing a comprehensive wellbeing strategy and will lead initiatives aimed at fostering emotional, and spiritual wellbeing across all three sites.

The role will manage all wellbeing services via the locality wellbeing leads on each site. Professionally qualified therapists will be supported to continue direct clinical work at EACH and maintain their registration.

The head of wellbeing and spiritual care will be responsible for:

- Overall management of all wellbeing and spiritual care services at each including staff and budgets via the locality wellbeing leads and accountable directly to the director of care.
- Work collaboratively with head of nursing, head of performance and delivery and the business development manager to be part of the each senior leadership team.

For further information about the role, please see the attached job description.
- Professionally registered in a relevant clinical field e.g. Psychology, Nursing, Social Work, Counselling.
- Experience of leadership in Spiritual Care.
- Knowledge of Paediatric Palliative Care, grief support, and spiritual care practices.
- Understanding of the unique needs and challenges faced by children with life-limiting conditions and their families.
- Knowledge of NICE and other national guidelines on children’s palliative and end of life care and other national guidelines on psychological therapies and spiritual care.
- Good understanding of other professionals’ theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and setting, and its implication for both clinical practice and professional management.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological/ emotional and spiritual wellbeing therapies and holistic assessment methodologies.
- Knowledge of theory and practice in outcome and experience.
- Experience of managing staff.
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified therapists in own area of therapeutic expertise.
- Experience of multiagency and partnership working.

**About Us**:
We are currently caring for over 350 families with children needing palliative and end of life care and are providing support to more than 200 bereaved families.

Our full and diverse range of services includes: nursing care, specialist symptom management nursing, short breaks, wellbeing activities, counselling & therapies, care at end of life, bereavement support, and volunteer services in the home; all meeting the individual needs of the baby, child, young person and their whole family.

In our commitment to you, we will provide you with:

- All the training and development required to deliver children’s palliative care including:

- EACH Care Assistant Development Programme
- Children’s Palliative and End of Life Care Training Programme
- Regular clinical, safeguarding and management supervision to support your professional development.

The support you need to enable you to provide safe and effective care and support to the children and their families who use our service.

We offer a comprehensive range of benefits:

- Pool car provided when working in the community
- Free onsite parking & subsidised meals at our hospices
- NHS pension - continuation if already contributing
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement - 27 days + 8 UK Bank Holidays
- Additional holiday purchase scheme
- AVIVA pension package - up to 7% employer contribution including life assurance
- Wellbeing support & employee assistance programme

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