Palliative/End of Life Frailty Lead

Job summary

x1 2-Year Fixed-Term Post Available

We have an exciting opportunity for a Palliative/End of Life Frailty Lead to join our team at St Lukes Hospice, working predominantly in the community setting.

This fabulous opportunity is to help support the delivery of outstanding quality care to frail and vulnerable people within Plymouth and surrounding areas, supporting patients with moderate to severe frailty and could be within the last year of life.

You will use your experience and specialist palliative care knowledge to work closely with health professionals to deliver appropriate management, advance care planning, undertake assessment and medication review for end-of-life care.

As part of our commitment to a continuous improvement strategy for this group of individuals and, in order to reduce variation in care with the focus being on standardising practice we have created this innovative post. This is a new role within St Lukes Hospice and will be pivotal to the delivery of a new pathway for the frail and elderly who are in their last year of life and approaching end of life. The successful candidate will ensure that the frail person is at the centre of decision making, ensuring that the risk of these patients being admitted to hospital unnecessarily is reduced.

A further aim of the role is to work towards a model that ensures those patients who require hospitalisation are admitted and discharge is proactively expediated to their preferred place of care.

Main duties of the job

For further information regarding the main duties of this role, please see the Job Description attached.

About us

St Lukes is a friendly, dynamic, and progressive organisation, where innovation and a can-do ethos is championed; we would value those with the desire to work in this specialist area.

As a staff member of St Luke's, you will receive an attractive employment package, which includes 7 weeks annual leave rising with service (inc. bank hols), and membership to a cash back health plan.

If you are interested in this role and would like further information, please contact Jen Nicholls (Nurse Consultant / Head of Community Services) on 07920561750 or 01752 964200 (Single Point of Access).