Senior Staff Nurse, Supportive Care Team (Hospice at Home)
37.5 hours per week (including weekends and bank holidays)
Role Outline
The post holder will have a key role in providing support to patients in their own home environment who have palliative and end‑of‑life care needs, role‑modelling high‑quality care and clinical standards and promoting a learning environment for team members and other health care providers. You will be responsible for planning, assessing, implementing, and evaluating care in collaboration with the District Nurses Team to prevent avoidable hospital admission and manage holistic care & support needs.
Equality and Diversity
We support an inclusive and holistic working environment and aim to empower our people to bring their authentic self to work. We are committed to this and so encourage applications from all individuals with the required skills for the role inclusive of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, colour, caste, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, socio‑economic background, trade union membership status, marriage, and civil partnerships. East Lancashire Hospice is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and volunteers.
Therapy Assistant – Creative and Support Therapies
Hours: Up to 30 hours, negotiable per week
Role Outline
- Support therapy interventions, and work alongside other disciplines, to include Physiotherapy, Hospice at Home, Clinical Nurse Specialists and the Hospice Inpatient Unit.
- Actively engage with patients and their families to identify what matters most to them, and support them to achieve meaningful outcomes.
- Facilitate and deliver a varied programme of creative, therapeutic and wellbeing activities, both for individuals and groups, tailored to personal needs, preferences and goals.
- Adapt activities in a flexible and responsible way to meet changing physical, emotional and social needs.
- Support participation in activities that promote independence, confidence and emotional well‑being.
- Collaborate with team members in order to plan effective rotas, training activities and annual leave whilst ensuring baseline cover is maintained.
- Proactively work with team members to overcome obstacles to access and maintain a flexible approach to provision to meet the needs of individuals and those that matter to them.
- Provide verbal and written feedback that is accurate, timely, focused and objective, including changes/deterioration in a person’s condition and/or concerns for family/carers.
- Provide physical care for patients as necessary, for example, assisting people to access toilet facilities and supporting personal care needs during the Hospice visit.
- Contribute to the support and development of volunteers working within the service.
- Engage with patients, professionals and partner organisations both within the Hospice and community to achieve positive outcomes for those accessing Hospice services.
- Demonstrate well‑developed and effective communication, negotiation and motivational skills, using empathy, tact, sensitivity and discretion when working with individuals and those that matter to them.
- Contribute to information collection to meet national minimum data set requirements, organisational reporting, local and national audit, as well as other evaluation programmes.
- Participate in general housekeeping duties to maintain a working environment that is welcoming and safe.
Equality and Diversity
We support an inclusive and holistic working environment and aim to empower our people to bring their authentic self to work. We are committed to this and so encourage applications from all individuals with the required skills for the role inclusive of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, colour, caste, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, socio‑economic background, trade union membership status, marriage, and civil partnerships. East Lancashire Hospice is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and volunteers.
Bonus scheme, Pension, Expenses, 31 days paid holiday, full time and part time opportunities
About you
- Living in or within travelling distance of the BB postcode area?
- An effective, persuasive, and engaging communicator able to create a rapport in a face‑to‑face situation?
- A car driver with a full driving licence and your own vehicle? (Not essential if working door to door)
- Self‑motivated with a positive attitude, a high level of self‑motivation and a strong work ethic? Someone who wants to put their life skills to good use by helping others.
