Band 8a Head of Palliative Care and Bereavement Services
- NHS
- Full Time
- Birmingham
- 53755.00 - 60504.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
A rare opportunity has arisen for a registered healthcare professional to join our senior Nursing and Therapies Team, to provide strategic leadership across all clinical divisions, to ensure we deliver outstanding palliative care and bereavement services to the people we serve, and their loved ones.
We are looking for a passionate, innovative clinician who lives our Trust values and has a strong understanding of the need to balance the provision of exceptional care, in line with best practice, and patient experience such that people die with dignity, in the place of their choice, with any symptoms managed, and with their pastoral, cultural and spiritual needs at the forefront of their advanced care planning.
Main duties of the job
The role of Head of Palliative Care and Bereavement services is to provide senior strategic leadership, ensuring that care for patients at the end of their life is compassionate, equitable and clinically effective across our clinical divisions. This will be achieved through the delivery of the Trust end of life strategy.
In addition the post holder will:
- lead on the development of bereavement care and support for people and families who have received care from our clinical teams
- work closely with the Deputy Chief Nurse and Associate Director, Patient Experience, ensuring that Trust education programmes remain clinically relevant and effective to meet the broad range of care delivered across both inpatient areas and community teams for both adults and children.
- have a pivotal responsibility as a key representative of BCHC at the systemwide collaboration steering group for end of life. This will require the ability to represent the clinical and operational priorities for community settings, understand how partners can work together to deliver the best possible clinical pathways and access for patients and best possible use of resources.
- support BCHC staff in the delivery of high-quality palliative and end of life care through the provision of information and advice, training and education.
- manage and further develop our Spiritual Care, Chaplaincy Service
- be responsible for ensuring the NACEL audit is undertaken, recorded, analysed and reported both locally and nationally.
About us
We are a close team, under the leadership of the Associate Director of Patient Experience, who actively choose to work with an appreciate enquiry approach and QI methodology, to continuously review and improve the way we work and the outcomes we achieve. We are building a diverse team, where we learn from one another and celebrate the richness this brings to both our understanding and practice.
Job responsibilities
Please see JD and PS attached for full details.
In your application, please ensure that you tell us what skills and experience you would bring to the role and how these match with the main responsibilities and duties.
You will be an experienced clinician, with specific knowledge and skills in supporting the planning and delivery of care towards the end of life both in community and in-patient settings.
Continuous professional development will be evidenced through your application and you will be able to demonstrate how you learn from your own and others' experiences. Much of this role includes being able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, including those in their last days, about sensitive and potentially distressing topics. Equally, it also involved championing the drive for improved patient experience at a senior level within BCHC and across the wider healthcare system.
In your application, please ensure that you demonstrate your understanding of self-care and reflective practice as an essential element for maintaining your own well-being. Evidence of writing and presenting reports to a range of audiences is important, as is a high-level of accuracy and experience of analysing data. Where your current experience and skills do not reach those described in the job description, we would be pleased to hear about any transferable skills you already have or learning needs you would like to explore.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- AHP or RGN, with current HCPC or NMC registration
- ENB 998/Mentor PREP or City and Guilds 730
- Masters Degree or equivalent
- Palliative Care course or relevant experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge of current government policy on health and social care pertaining to Gold Standard Framework, End of Life Care and national directives
- Demonstrates a high level of clinical knowledge in palliative and end of life care and relevant recent experience in palliative care
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to lead on developments of the service(s)
Desirable
- Ability to use patient information system or similar patient administration system
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-registration experience, including in palliative/end of life care
- Experience of team leader or equivalent experience
- Experience of report writing
- Experience of participating or leading a project
- Significant experience of working in partnership with other agencies
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexibility to the needs of the role
- Trustworthy
- Strong commitment to team working
- Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritise workload.
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Full UK driving license and access to transport
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address
Trust HQ
3 Priestly Wharf
Birmingham
B7 4BN
