Job summary
Compassionate Sheffields mission is to collaborate with individuals, communities and organisations, enabling them to do the small things that make a big difference to our life and experiences of death.
We are looking to recruit compassionate and motivated individuals to join the team, in order to bolster our capacity to engage with communities and effectively communicate with varied stakeholders.
We welcome applications from people who wish to work part time or full time hours. If on reading this job description you feel that you do not meet all of the criteria, please do not feel discouraged. If there is a well-balanced match, we will embrace a job sharing arrangement.
We believe that by connecting and supporting people, communities and organisations to harness the power of compassion, we will create a happier and healthier Sheffield.
We are keen to be as flexible as possible with this role. We welcome applications from people who need to work around childcare commitments, educational activities, caring responsibilities, other employment etc.
If you are a compassionate person, who is confident with creating and sharing engaging content and / or, enjoys working with people and communities, we welcome your application.
This role will primarily be working from home, with occasional team meetings on site and engagement events out in the community. Post holders will be provided with a laptop in order to accommodate this.
Main duties of the job
Some of the projects we are currently working on:
- Advance Care Planning: Encouraging people to reflect and plan for the End of Life experience they want. Working with traditionally underrepresented communities and encouraging them to share plans with health and care services.
- Talking About Death: Death is part of life. lets talk about it. Working with communities, arts organisations, voluntary sector organisations, civic institutions and other partners to challenge the idea that death is a taboo subject.
- Navigating End of Life: Upskilling members of the community, health care professionals and public sector workers with the knowledge and confidence to support each other with death, dying, loss and bereavement. Helping people to navigate the processes and emotions that can improve peoples end of life experience.
- Promoting the Value of Compassion: People everywhere are stressed or facing difficulties. Its important for us to be kind to each other and always lead with compassion. Compassionate Sheffield are regularly invited to speak to groups, networks, organisations, teams etc. These opportunities provide a space to generate positivity and motivation for people who welcome the value of compassion.
About us
St Lukes is dedicated to the wellbeing of the terminally ill in Sheffield and their loved ones. No patient or family is ever the same, and our journey with each individual is unique. Above all, we are about life, and enabling our patients and their loved ones to live theirs and die with dignity and respect.
OUR VISION:Supporting and caring for
everyone affected by terminal
illness in Sheffield.
OUR MISSION:To deliver the best possible
palliative care in Sheffield, whilst
developing and driving continual
improvements for everyone
affected by terminal illness.
OUR VALUES:The Board and Executive agreed
St Lukes organisational values
in 2015 ensuring they reflect our
culture and what we want to
achieve together. We have four
simple values which set out how
we work together to achieve
success at St Lukes.
No matter what area of St Lukes
we work in and no matter who we
work for, we are committed to
the following ways of working:
- Compassionate
- Dignified
- Inspired
- Pioneering
Job description
Job responsibilities
Overall Purpose of the Role
To engage people and communities with the Compassionate Sheffield programme.
To build relationships and work closely with people, communities and other key stakeholders.
To harness the power of community engagement and communication in order to improve peoples experience of death, dying loss and bereavement.
Main Activities
To empathise with people and their experience of death, dying, loss and bereavement.
To encourage, enable and inspire communities to support one another with death, dying, loss and bereavement.
To help link communities into services and services into communities.
To generate and share engaging content on Compassionate Sheffields social media platforms.
To create posters, flyers, graphics and other content (using simple software, E.g. Canva).
To play an active role in generating content that showcases the programmes impact.
To work flexibly with other members of the Compassionate Sheffield team and its key partners.
To record and communicate insights to support the future development of the programme.
To be a part of strategic discussions and offer ideas for how we can improve the programme.
Required Qualities
To be compassionate.
To be computer literate.
To be an effective and attentive listener.
To have effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
To understand the importance of messaging.
- To understand the importance of design.
To feel confident talking about death, dying, loss and bereavement.
To work flexibly and have a desire to learn new skills.
To be excited by this opportunity.
Commitment to Equal Opportunities
- Compassionate Sheffield aims to be an inclusive and accessible programme.
- Compassionate Sheffield acknowledges that structural barriers often prevent people from applying for job opportunities.
- For this role, there is no requirement for formal qualifications.
- This role will be recruited to and appraised using a values based approach.
- Our main objective is to ensure that anyone in this role embodies the values of Compassionate Sheffield
.
- For more information on the values of Compassionate Sheffield, please visit;
www.compassionate-sheffield.co.uk
- For more information on the values of St Lukes, please visit; www.stlukeshospice.org.uk/welcome/mission-vision-strategy
Job description
Job responsibilities
Overall Purpose of the Role
To engage people and communities with the Compassionate Sheffield programme.
To build relationships and work closely with people, communities and other key stakeholders.
To harness the power of community engagement and communication in order to improve peoples experience of death, dying loss and bereavement.
Main Activities
To empathise with people and their experience of death, dying, loss and bereavement.
To encourage, enable and inspire communities to support one another with death, dying, loss and bereavement.
To help link communities into services and services into communities.
To generate and share engaging content on Compassionate Sheffields social media platforms.
To create posters, flyers, graphics and other content (using simple software, E.g. Canva).
To play an active role in generating content that showcases the programmes impact.
To work flexibly with other members of the Compassionate Sheffield team and its key partners.
To record and communicate insights to support the future development of the programme.
To be a part of strategic discussions and offer ideas for how we can improve the programme.
Required Qualities
To be compassionate.
To be computer literate.
To be an effective and attentive listener.
To have effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
To understand the importance of messaging.
- To understand the importance of design.
To feel confident talking about death, dying, loss and bereavement.
To work flexibly and have a desire to learn new skills.
To be excited by this opportunity.
Commitment to Equal Opportunities
- Compassionate Sheffield aims to be an inclusive and accessible programme.
- Compassionate Sheffield acknowledges that structural barriers often prevent people from applying for job opportunities.
- For this role, there is no requirement for formal qualifications.
- This role will be recruited to and appraised using a values based approach.
- Our main objective is to ensure that anyone in this role embodies the values of Compassionate Sheffield
.
- For more information on the values of Compassionate Sheffield, please visit;
www.compassionate-sheffield.co.uk
- For more information on the values of St Lukes, please visit; www.stlukeshospice.org.uk/welcome/mission-vision-strategy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- To be computer literate.
- To have effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
Desirable
- Working with communities.
- Communicating in creative and engaging ways.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- To be computer literate.
- To have effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
Desirable
- Working with communities.
- Communicating in creative and engaging ways.
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.
