Main area: Cardio-Respiratory
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Including regular weekend working)
Job ref: 423-6729278
Employer: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Airedale General Hospital
Town: Keighley
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/11/2024 23:59
End of Life Care Coordinator (Band 4)
Be part of our future landscape. At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
These are exciting times for Airedale. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come.
Job Overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic team member to join the team who can work flexibly to support patients and family/significant others at the end of life. To be an excellent communicator to enable support when ringing families/significant others on bereavement calls. To assist with audit work with the clinical nurse specialists.
Main Duties of the Job
1. To work with ward teams to complete and implement holistic, individualised plans of care for all patients who are in the last days/hours of life.
2. To be with dying patients who would otherwise be on their own, providing emotional support, a calm and peaceful environment, and allowing the patient time to talk if they wish/able.
3. To identify signs and symptoms of distress, including pain, breathlessness, agitation, secretions, spiritual or psychological anguish, and liaise with ward staff.
4. To assist ward teams to provide basic personal care for patients in the last days of life when needed, including mouth care, positional changes, comfort and dignity care, and assisting with diet and fluids.
5. To support those identified as important by patients at the end of life, i.e., family members/significant others, building a trusting relationship to provide pre and post-bereavement care.
6. Provide family members/significant others with spiritual, psychological, emotional, and practical support.
7. Work autonomously and proactively to identify and support the provision of the patient’s needs, utilising basic clinical and administrative knowledge.
8. Collaborate and communicate with the palliative care and ward teams to ensure the provision of appropriate services to maximise the quality of care for the dying patient and their families/friends.
Working for Our Organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
* Cycle to Work
* Travel Scheme
* Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
* Onsite Nursery
* Buying and Selling Annual Leave
* Car Leasing
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee Health and Wellbeing
* Extensive Reward Scheme
* Counselling Service
* Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
* Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our Values: We take pride in fostering a friendly, effective, and caring work environment. Our values are:
* Committed to Quality of Care
* Compassion
* Working together for patients
* Improving Lives
* Everyone Counts
* Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply? Please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
For full details of this job vacancy, please see the attached full job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications, Education & Training
* Good standard of education equivalent to Maths and English GCSE at Grade C or above.
* NVQ4 or NVQ3 plus additional training to diploma level equivalent, or equivalent through short courses.
* Computer literate essential (able to use clinical systems, Word, PowerPoint, and basic Excel).
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Experience of teaching, delivering talks to a small number of people.
* ECDL or equivalent.
Experience
* Administration support for clinical team.
* Experience of working with multi-professional teams.
* Experience of managing or supervising staff.
* Experience of caring for dying patients.
* Experience of supporting families/informal carers.
* Experience of System One.
Knowledge
* Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality.
* Ability to understand the needs/concerns of dying patients and their informal carers.
* Demonstrate a high level of skill in administration.
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost from your first full month's salary. This is a condition of your employment.
In applying for a post that requires a DBS check you are confirming that you have read and understood the DBS Privacy Policy for Enhanced and Standard Checks.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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