Job overview
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.
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