NHS
Palliative/End of Life Frailty Lead
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Job Description
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- Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on this role.
- Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on this role.
- Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on this role.
- Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on this role.
Job summary
x1 2-Year Fixed-Term Post Available
We have an exciting opportunity for a Palliative/End of Life Frailty Lead to join our team at St Lukes Hospice, working predominantly in the community setting.
This fabulous opportunity is to help support the delivery of outstanding quality care to frail and vulnerable people within Plymouth and surrounding areas, supporting patients with moderate to severe frailty and could be within the last year of life.
You will use your experience and specialist palliative care knowledge to work closely with health professionals to deliver appropriate management, advance care planning, undertake assessment and medication review for end-of-life care.
As part of our commitment to a continuous improvement strategy for this group of individuals and, in order to reduce variation in care with the focus being on standardising practice we have created this innovative post. This is a new role within St Lukes Hospice and will be pivotal to the delivery of a new pathway for the frail and elderly who are in their last year of life and approaching end of life. The successful candidate will ensure that the frail person is at the centre of decision making, ensuring that the risk of these patients being admitted to hospital unnecessarily is reduced.
A further aim of the role is to work towards a model that ensures those patients who require hospitalisation are admitted and discharge is proactively expediated to their preferred place of care.
Main duties of the job
For further information regarding the main duties of this role, please see the Job Description attached.
About us
St Lukes is a friendly, dynamic, and progressive organisation, where innovation and a can-do ethos is championed; we would value those with the desire to work in this specialist area.
As a staff member of St Luke's, you will receive an attractive employment package, which includes 7 weeks annual leave rising with service (inc. bank hols), and membership to a cash back health plan.
If you are interested in this role and would like further information, please contact Jen Nicholls (Nurse Consultant / Head of Community Services) on 07920561750 or 01752 964200 (Single Point of Access).
Date posted
16 December 2024
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience £44,533 - £50,961 per annum, depending on experience
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
2 years
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
B0259-24-0033
Job locations
Stamford Lane
Turnchapel
Plymouth
PL9 9XA
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on this role.
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on this role.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Experience
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Additional informationDisclosure 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
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
St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth
Address
Stamford Lane
Turnchapel
Plymouth
PL9 9XA
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth
Address
Stamford Lane
Turnchapel
Plymouth
PL9 9XA
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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