Job summary
- Hours: 22.5 hours per week
- Location: Based at Grove House, St Albans but travel to all Rennie Grove Peace offices and external sites required
- Salary: 28,751 per annum (pro rata)
- Closing date: 22 August 2025 at 12 noon
- Interview date:2 September 2025
As part of the care home education team, this role will focus on supporting the delivery of a comprehensive outreach palliative End of Life Care (EOLC) education programme, and ongoing support to care homes, and home-care agencies within our locality.
Main duties of the job
- With support, delivery of prepared training to care homes either individually or with the Care Home EducationLead.
- To work alongside the Care Home and Outreach Education Lead providing ongoing support to identified carers and other professionals working in care homes and care agencies.
- Attend, where relevant, internal and external meetings, promoting the EOLC education programme.
- Acting as a Rennie Grove Peace ambassador within the community.
About us
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to patients, carers, and families facing progressive life-limiting illness.
We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire and our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years). Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces.
We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individuals needs, whether that's at home, in a care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose-built Living Well Centre facilities.As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.
Our staff team of 340+ includes a wide range of patient-facing disciplines plus operational support based in Watford, Tring, St Albans, Chalfont St Giles and Berkhamsted.
The Charity is now one of the larger UK hospice charities, reaching a GP population of 797,037 of whom 75% live in Hertfordshire and 25% in Buckinghamshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Leadership
- Support in the provision of a multi-professional EOLC education programme which is responsive to the needs of care homes and home-care agencies.
- Support in the promotion of an EOLC care home education programme and the wider support available through Rennie Grove Peace.
Operational
- Support with the recording and reporting of the monthly activity of the care home education programme.
- Support with the promotion of the service.
Clinical practice
- With support deliver an educational programme to care homes and home care agencies acting as a role model and always demonstrating Rennie Grove Peace values.
- Ensure own knowledge and skills are updated and maintained.
Professional/Personal
- Understand and comply with all Rennie Grove Peace policies and procedures.
- Maintain required organisational standards for all mandatory training.
- Keep up to date with current legislation and any training relevant to role.
- Demonstrate ongoing personal and professional development in accordance with annual Individual Progress Review (IPR) system.
- Ensure that information (in any form) relating to patients, staff, volunteers, customers and supporters is always protected and treated confidentially and complies with current data protection laws.
- Attend relevant meetings as appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Leadership
- Support in the provision of a multi-professional EOLC education programme which is responsive to the needs of care homes and home-care agencies.
- Support in the promotion of an EOLC care home education programme and the wider support available through Rennie Grove Peace.
Operational
- Support with the recording and reporting of the monthly activity of the care home education programme.
- Support with the promotion of the service.
Clinical practice
- With support deliver an educational programme to care homes and home care agencies acting as a role model and always demonstrating Rennie Grove Peace values.
- Ensure own knowledge and skills are updated and maintained.
Professional/Personal
- Understand and comply with all Rennie Grove Peace policies and procedures.
- Maintain required organisational standards for all mandatory training.
- Keep up to date with current legislation and any training relevant to role.
- Demonstrate ongoing personal and professional development in accordance with annual Individual Progress Review (IPR) system.
- Ensure that information (in any form) relating to patients, staff, volunteers, customers and supporters is always protected and treated confidentially and complies with current data protection laws.
- Attend relevant meetings as appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Experience of delivering clinical or non clinical training
- Confident to deliver an agreed education programme with support
- Competent in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and virtual delivery spaces
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Experience of community or care home environments
- Strong organisational skills.
- Attention to detail
- Flexibility and openness to change
- Resourcefulness and excellent time management skills
- Ability to take initiative
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Track record of motivating teams
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Experience of delivering clinical or non clinical training
- Confident to deliver an agreed education programme with support
- Competent in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and virtual delivery spaces
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Experience of community or care home environments
- Strong organisational skills.
- Attention to detail
- Flexibility and openness to change
- Resourcefulness and excellent time management skills
- Ability to take initiative
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Track record of motivating teams
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.
