Job responsibilities
Team Leadership
Under supervision by the Associate Director Patient Care and Communities, create a self-coaching team environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team work.
Provide the team with a vision around how their objectives link to the Hospice strategy.
Motivate and inspire team members.
Coach people in order to help them:
Develop new skills and recognise and use their and each others talents.
Help them generate their own solutions to the problems they face
Develop and maintain good relationships,
Act early and be proactive, competent and confident in managing conflict.
Overcome barriers and try new things in a safe and supportive environment.
Motivate, support and mentor each other as team colleagues
Facilitate problem solving and collaboration
Ensure discussions and decisions lead to an outcome
Be creative, courageous and focused on constant improvement
Facilitate problem solving and collaboration
Ensure discussions and decisions lead to an outcome
Be creative, courageous and focused on constant improvement
Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives and carers, using
specialist advanced communication skills and restorative conversations
Influence practice and policy through the establishment of partnerships and
networks with colleagues
Promote harmonious relationships within the inter-professional team, supporting
the vision and values of the HospiceMaintain effective and responsive
external partnership working with health and social care colleagues such as
Community Teams and Acute Trusts.
Ensure integration of the various multi-disciplinary professions, particularly
in relation to processes
Assure that the team members have the necessary education and training to
effectively participate on the team.
Recognise and celebrate team and team member accomplishments
and exceptional performance
Monitor the performance and promote the development of the
team, providing regular supervision and development conversations, observing
their practice and coaching them to develop new skills. Manage and monitor the proper and effective use of the
financial and other resources available to your service.
Actively and regularly engage your team in how they can help
achieve the strategic aims of the Hospice.
Support people to achieve their development outcomes.
To deputise for the Associate Director Patient Care and
Communities, supporting the strategic delivery of all services pertaining to
the community.
To submit statistics and activity reports as required.
To liaise frequently with the members of the team to ensure
that patients on the caseload are reviewed and supported according to the
caseload management guidelines.
To support the Associate Director Patient Care and
Communities to implement the Princess Alice Hospice Clinical Strategy and
Service Plan.
To receive and disseminate information through chairing
locality team meetings and attendance at other relevant meetings.
Supports the delivery of activity by clinical volunteers who
work with the Community team ensuring integration and support needs are met.
Participates in the recruitment, selection and retention of
staff, to ensure that adequate staffing levels and skill mix are maintained,
and that staff receive appropriate induction and personal development plans.
Supports multi-professional caseload management for all
patients, ensuring that all necessary information on patients is available as
appropriate.
Under supervision and leadership by the Associate Director
Patient Care and Communities contribute to the Hospice Governance arrangements
and apply Clinical Governance and Risk Management standards ensuring that
policies and guidelines are available and adhered to.
Clinical
Participates and takes a lead role in multi professional
team meetings to provide informed specialist practitioner opinion and care
management options.
Will spend a minimum of 60% of the working week in direct contact
with patients and families
Promotes and supports the team to deliver a seamless package
of care, including liaison with external agencies, to enable patients to be
managed in their preferred place of care
Works alongside the Nurse Consultant develop advanced
practice within the team, developing a team that is responsive and skilled in
physical assessment and non -medical prescribing, ensuring that any advice
given is within the scope of practice
Under the supervision of the Associate Director Patient Care
and Communities and the Nurse Consultant develop clinical leadership for the
Hospice at Home Team throughout the patient pathway from referral, triage,
advance care planning to preferred place of care and death at the end of life. To participate in cover and the 24 hour on-call rota as appropriate, that
covers the Princess Alice Hospice catchment area.
Educational
Keeps abreast of current developments in Specialist
Palliative Care and End of Life Care, and the implications they may have to
clinical practice.
Acts as a role model and mentor, providing informal
education and support to colleagues in their provision of care.
Promotes a learning environment for students, other clinical
placements and visitors to the Team specifically and the Hospice generally.
Participates in the development and delivery of formal
educational programs internally and with external clinical and academic
partners.
Participates and leads as appropriate in developing and
auditing nursing specific and multi professional standards.
Participates in and supports nursing specific and
collaborative clinical research, and leads in the development of evidence based
practice.
Professional:
Ensures own Professional registration is valid and current
and adheres to own code and scope of professional practice.
Ensures that a professional portfolio is kept and updated in
accordance with revalidation as appropriate
Ensures that personal knowledge and skills meet the
requirements of the post and that they are in line with current practice.
Acts as an ambassador for the Hospice at all times,
including representing the Hospice in fundraising and public relations
activities as requested.
Other responsibilities
To undertake any other such duties or general tasks and
hours of work as may reasonably be required and to work in other locations
within the hospice organisation.
A job description is not a rigid or inflexible document but
acts to provide guidelines to the duties expected while in post.
This job description will be reviewed and amended in the
light of changing professional demands
