Palliative Care Support Worker

4 weeks ago

Chesterfield, United Kingdom Ashgate Hospice Full time

**About the role**

We have a great opportunity for a part-time **Palliative Care Support Worker** to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care Team. This post is to provide cover for maternity leave and would be offered as secondment opportunity or fixed term contract of 9 months.

**Hours**: Part-time, 15 hours per week worked (Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm).

Weekday working days may vary, a rota is produced up to 8 weeks in advance.

Our Palliative Care Support Workers work as part of a multidisciplinary team of doctors, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and supportive care (spiritual care practitioners, social workers, complementary therapists) to ensure patients of north Derbyshire get the support they need. This includes helping to manage difficult symptoms and providing advice when needed. We want our service users to live as comfortably as possible and understand what choices they have regarding our services and the support we provide.

The Palliative Care Support Worker service is available Monday to Friday from 9 am until 5 pm.
- _The main responsibilities include:

- Contributing to the assessment, monitoring and support of patients and carers in their own homes, identifying physical and/or psychological symptoms, they will liaise with the appropriate health and social care team, completing referrals to other agencies as required. This will be through face-to-face and telephone contacts.
- Having responsibility for a designated caseload, within the locality area.
- Delivering direct nursing care for patients.
- Maintaining accurate and effective patient records and documentation
- Demonstrating excellent communication skills, within the MDT and wider health care system.

We pride ourselves on ensuring that our staff have the time and support to deliver the very highest quality of care to the patients and families we look after. We know this is often a challenge in many settings, but we believe strongly that we only have one chance to get it right for our patients and their loved ones.

To get full details on what the role includes please read the attached Job Description, call the Lead Specialist nurse for an informal chat or come and visit us.

**About you**:
We are looking for a highly motivated person with experience and a passion for making a difference within palliative and end-of-life care across north Derbyshire. You will have outstanding communication and organising skills, work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team and be committed to making a positive impact on the lives of patients, families and colleagues alike.

Skills and experience required.
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the needs of terminally ill people
- Confident in documenting care delivered
- Motivation and commitment to personal and professional development
- A commitment to Ashgate’s values
- Having a driving license and access to a car
- Clear communication skills, to work as part of team or individually

**About Ashgate**:
Ashgate Hospice is a registered charity that provides compassionate, specialist palliative and end of life care, free of charge, to patients with a life-limiting illness and their families across North Derbyshire. Our values are at the heart of everything we do at Ashgate. They are grounded in our commitment to being the best we can be for our patients and the people who are important to them, and for each other. We are compassionate. We are a team. We are respectful, open and inclusive.

We are proud of our Outstanding CQC rating and our recent RCN award-winning in-patient unit and have ambitious plans for high quality and sustainable patient care.

We’re committed to providing a happy, safe and supportive environment for all our people which is why nearly 4 out of 5 of our staff would recommend us as a place to work. We recognise the need to support our employees’ well-being including their work-life balance which is why we are open to, and encourage flexible working arrangements, including job-sharing.

As a valued member of the team, you will have a wide range of training and development available to support your own personal, professional development, opening doors to new career pathways.

Please visit our website and social media accounts or listen to our podcast “The Life and Death Podcast” to get a feel for what it is like to be part of the Ashgate team and gain an understanding of the people we support.

Find out why our people think Ashgate Hospice is a special place to work.

Some of our current benefits include:

- A highly compassionate and supportive working environment
- A wide range of initiatives to support your wellbeing, and the time out to practice self-care
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Annual Buy and Sell holiday scheme
- A progressive approach to flexible working to help meet your and our needs
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Tech Benefits Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Westfield Health Cash Plan includes free annual eye tests, dent

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