Wellbeing Practitioner

7 hours ago

Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom Pilgrims Hospices Full time

Location : Canterbury

Status : Permanent

Salary : £24937 to £26598 DOE

Closing date : 08/12/2025

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Why Work for Us
  • You have a background in wellbeing practice
  • You want to develop your wellbeing practitioner's skills into a specialist role and be part of a pro-active multi-disciplinary and professional team, that puts excellent patient care as their priority
  • You have a passion for working collaboratively in an environment that thrives on positive change and making a difference to those with palliative and end of life care needs
  • You are motivated about supporting and empowering patients to live well until their very last moment in their life
  • You want to provide holistic needs assessments, individually planned and patient-centred care – You help patients' families/carers to have open and honest conversations about their end of life care wishes
  • You want to go home at the end of the day knowing you have made a difference to the lives of families in east Kent

If so, then the role of Wellbeing Practitioner at Pilgrims may be just the job for you.

We are seeking well-motivated and forward-thinking professionals to join our multi-disciplinary team, in supporting patients across East Kent.

As a member of the wider clinical team, the successful candidate will be involved in assessing and developing appropriate plans of intervention and support for patients and their families, acting as a resource in providing advice on active palliative care management.

About the role:

This role is offered on a full-time basis of 37.5 hours per week at our Canterbury Hospice site. Working patterns will be Monday-Friday This is a band 3 position with pay between £24937 – £26598 per annum depending on experience.

Key duties include:
  • Engaging with and supporting patients, their carers and families, undertaking person centred holistic assessments to identify individual needs
  • Prescribing a range of appropriate services to enable, empower and promote wellbeing
  • Providing advice and guidance related to symptom management
  • Recognising and appropriately responding to changes in patients conditions
  • Actively contributing to service development
  • Undertaking evidence based projects and audit
  • Making recommendations for the development of and changes to working practices and processes as required

Recognising the need to support employees working within this particular field, we provide an extensive range of physical and psychological support measures through our health and wellbeing programme, to ensure your success, including:

  • A supportive and friendly working environment
  • Regular quality interactions with our clinical and medical teams
  • Strong working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary teams
  • Ongoing training and CPD/career development
  • Access to a range of resources to ensure staff have access to help and support where and when they need it
  • Regular self-care and development sessions
About us

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Vision

"Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life".

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision , we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE , which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes

Other benefits

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

  • Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
  • Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
  • Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
  • A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
  • A sense of wellbeing
  • A good work-life balance
  • Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links
  • NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card
  • Cycle to Work Schemes
  • Free hospice parking

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.

If you would like to contribute to providing high quality patient care and support to those at the end of their life, please click the link below and apply now.

For more information please find below the job description and job pack.

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