Job summary
Hours: 37.5 hours per week,
Monday to Friday 0830 - 1630
(but will be
expected to ensure regular interaction with team members supporting patients
across the 24/7 365 service).
Salary: £49,226
FT - £53,000 depending on experience
Closing
Date: 14th
February 2025
As our existing Head
of IPU has decided to retire and move onto new adventures with her own loved
ones, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a new leader to
join our In Patient Unit.
We are now looking for an experienced leader to build
upon the fantastic service already in place in our 10-bedded Inpatient Unit and
to take the department forward, working with our Director of Patient Services,
to deliver strategic plans.
Main duties of the job
Working in line with the Hospice values and behaviours, the
postholder will be member of the Senior Clinical team, who together with the
Director of Patient Services and the wider MDT, provides leadership to drive
forward excellence in palliative and end of life care and continuous
improvement.
You will be responsible for ensuring compassionate,
individualised, person and family centred care within the Inpatient Unit. You will provide strong, effective clinical
leadership, clinical governance and management to the IPU department, promoting
responsive, evidence-based, high-quality, end of life care for patients, carers
and relatives.
About us
At Heart of
Kent Hospice, we believe that everyone deserves compassionate, expert care when
there is no cure for their illness and when they have a limited time left to
live.
We are a
charity and we dont charge a penny for our care. We depend on the compassion
and kindness of you, the people of this community, to power our services and
ensure that everyone gets the help they need.
We provide
specialist care and support to adults who have a terminal illness as well as
their families, friends and carers. We help people to live as fully and as well
as possible for the rest of their lives and ensure that their final days are
comfortable and peaceful,
wherever they
choose to be. We treat every individual as the unique and special
person that they are. Everything we do is tailored and personalised.
Our
vision is that everyone living with a terminal illness in our community will
have the best quality of life. Our purpose is to enable people
with a terminal illness in our community to live with comfort, independence and
dignity to the end of their lives, and to support those closest to them. All our care is underpinned by
our core values of compassion, integrity, respect and teamwork. These
values guide our decision-making and how we conduct ourselves in our work and
every one of our colleagues plays an important part in enabling us to give our
patients and their families the best possible care.
If youre
passionate about our cause consider joining our team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As Head of IPU you will be responsible for:
Leading a specialised, compassionate,
individualised, person and family centred care within the Inpatient Unit. Promoting
responsive, evidence-based, high-quality, end of life care for patients, carers
and relatives.
Ensuring effective, evidence based
clinical, exemplary clinical governance
Inspirational values-led leadership of the
24/7 365 IPU team, coaching, ensuring the team is continuously developed and
competences are continuously maintained.
Promoting the service externally as
necessary, producing high standard of evidence based reporting and as part of
the Hospice Leadership team building effective relationships
Collaborating with all Patient Services
teams to ensure services are seamless and teams work holistically as one team
with patients and their families at the heart of our ways of working
Working in line with the Hospice values and
behaviours, the postholder will be member of the Senior Clinical team, who
together with the Director of Patient Services and the wider MDT, provides
leadership to drive forward excellence in palliative and end of life care and
continuous improvement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As Head of IPU you will be responsible for:
Leading a specialised, compassionate,
individualised, person and family centred care within the Inpatient Unit. Promoting
responsive, evidence-based, high-quality, end of life care for patients, carers
and relatives.
Ensuring effective, evidence based
clinical, exemplary clinical governance
Inspirational values-led leadership of the
24/7 365 IPU team, coaching, ensuring the team is continuously developed and
competences are continuously maintained.
Promoting the service externally as
necessary, producing high standard of evidence based reporting and as part of
the Hospice Leadership team building effective relationships
Collaborating with all Patient Services
teams to ensure services are seamless and teams work holistically as one team
with patients and their families at the heart of our ways of working
Working in line with the Hospice values and
behaviours, the postholder will be member of the Senior Clinical team, who
together with the Director of Patient Services and the wider MDT, provides
leadership to drive forward excellence in palliative and end of life care and
continuous improvement.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a senior nurse responsible for leading a team.
- Experience working in a palliative care setting.
- Knowledge of symptom management, end of life care and recognizing palliative care emergencies.
- Experience of organizing and managing a clinical area.
- Good understanding of Clinical Governance and the audit process.
- Knowledge of political and economic influences affecting palliative care.
- Knowledge of the key CQC standards.
Desirable
- Experience of managing budgets.
- Experience in recruitment and interviewing.
- Knowledge of the charitable sector.
- Experience of colleague and team development.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication and inter personal relationship skills.
- Ability to manage own workload and co-ordinate the work of others.
- Have the ability to lead by experience.
- Confident and assertive.
- Action, solution focused.
- To be able to act as an ambassador to influence best practice throughout the hospice.
- Flexible and adaptable.
Desirable
- IT Skills in Outlook, word processing and spreadsheets.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Post Registration Qualification -Bsc level or equivalent- in palliative care,health and social care
Desirable
- Mentorship or teaching qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a senior nurse responsible for leading a team.
- Experience working in a palliative care setting.
- Knowledge of symptom management, end of life care and recognizing palliative care emergencies.
- Experience of organizing and managing a clinical area.
- Good understanding of Clinical Governance and the audit process.
- Knowledge of political and economic influences affecting palliative care.
- Knowledge of the key CQC standards.
Desirable
- Experience of managing budgets.
- Experience in recruitment and interviewing.
- Knowledge of the charitable sector.
- Experience of colleague and team development.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication and inter personal relationship skills.
- Ability to manage own workload and co-ordinate the work of others.
- Have the ability to lead by experience.
- Confident and assertive.
- Action, solution focused.
- To be able to act as an ambassador to influence best practice throughout the hospice.
- Flexible and adaptable.
Desirable
- IT Skills in Outlook, word processing and spreadsheets.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Post Registration Qualification -Bsc level or equivalent- in palliative care,health and social care
Desirable
- Mentorship or teaching qualification
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
