Community Clinical Specialist

Saint Francis Hospice; Romford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free car parking

Orange Cafe access

Monthly supervision

Annual appraisal

Educational opportunities

Job summary

Saint Francis Hospice is seeking a Clinical Specialist to deliver specialist palliative and end of life care across the community, working as an autonomous practitioner within a skilled hospice team. The role includes home, onsite or virtual visits and telephone assessments, with travel across Brentwood, Havering, Barking & Dagenham.

You will contribute to reflective practice, supervision and ongoing education.

Qualifications

• Must have senior level experience in palliative care and work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent communication, assessment and prioritisation skills and understanding of evidence-based practice.
• Willingness to travel across specified boroughs and provide varied visit types (home, onsite, virtual) and telephone support.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist palliative and end of life care assessment, advice and support to patients, families and professionals.
• Work autonomously as a core member of the hospice multidisciplinary team.
• Provide timely decision-making, symptom management, crisis response and coordinated care for complex needs.

Skills

Palliative care expertise

Autonomous practitioner

Clinical assessment

Communication skills

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, enthusiastic, self-motivated, experienced Clinician, with good clinical palliative care knowledge base, to join our well-established Hospice Community Team as a Clinical Specialist. This post will provide varied senior experience in a multidisciplinary working environment delivering a 24/7 service to individuals, carers and other health care professionals across the community.

We are a progressive, creative team, with a strong ethos, working in collaboration with our external place-based partners, enabling and encouraging access to palliative and end of life care to any individual living across Brentwood, Havering, Barking & Dagenham over a 24hr 7 day service in addition to out of hours telephone support for Redbridge.

The Clinical Specialist will provide specialist palliative and end of life care assessment ,advice and support for people, families, carers and professionals across communitysettings. The Clinical Specialist will work as an autonomous practitioner as a core partof the hospice multidisciplinary team, providing timely decision-making, effectivesymptom management, crisis response and coordinated care for people with complexpalliative care needs.

Main duties of the job

With the launch of the hospice 5- year strategy and ranked Outstanding by Care Quality Commissioners, there is not a better time to join our experienced & skilled specialist palliative care service, providing excellent, compassionate care to individuals and their loved ones across all residential community settings.

The varying role includes home, onsite or virtual face to face visits and telephone contact assessments. Embracing diversity and always forward thinking, with the ability to travel across the boroughs of Brentwood, Havering, Barking and Dagenham having the use of own car is essential.

If you feel you meet the criteria and you want a job where you matter and contribute fully to the team working: offering reflective practice, monthly supervision and annual appraisal, along with educational opportunities, free car parking, and access to our Orange Cafe, this might be the job for you.

We are looking for a candidate who is working at a senior level and has excellent communication, assessment and prioritisation skills, and understands the needs of those receiving palliative and end of life care, a working knowledge of evidence -based practice and the ability to develop a good knowledge base of current initiatives and developments in palliative care.

We are a dynamic, forward thinking organisation delivering a full range of specialist palliative care services for individuals & their loved ones with palliative or end of life care needs. We achieved Outstanding in our CQC inspection & have reconfigured our services to meet the changing needs of our local community. We support 5 Clinical Commissioning Groups & have a robust governance structure in place. We provide ward clinical services within a modern, personal & friendly 18-bedded unit, as well as Specialist Community Crisis Support Service, Hospice at Home Service & Specialist Day Therapy Service. We also have the hospice Pepperell Education Centre that has an excellent reputation for delivering high quality education programmes and study days.

Saint Francis Hospice is a charity based in the UK. We will require all successful candidates to be able to provide documentary ID proof of their Right to Work in the UK. We are not a Licensed Sponsor, so are unable to provide sponsorship to support applicants applying from outside of the UK.