Job summary
Look at this - your next opportunity!
The community service provided by Mountbatten
Hampshire aims to provide care to patients and their families that is
supportive, professional and respectful of patients choices.
We are looking for a compassionate and dedicated Palliative Care Support Worker who - through excellent
assessment, being mindful of the quality of life and the meaning this has for
each individual - will offer intervention and care for patients with progressive
and life limiting illnesses enabling them to remain at home, in accordance with
their wishes.
This includes patients in
residential, nursing homes and other long stay settings for as long as
possible, according to their individual preferences.
*Please note a vehicle insured for business use
and a full UK driving licence is essential for this role*
Salary Range: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum FTE (equivalent to Agenda for Change Band 4)
Main duties of the job
The role is responsible for supporting the
delivery of palliative and end of life care as part of Mountbatten Hampshires
community services team, providing nursing interventions and ongoing assessment
under the direct clinical leadership of the Advance Nurse Practitioners/Senior
Nurse on Duty reporting to the Locality Leads.
The purpose of the role is to work
independently, to assess and report the current patient status, support
patients and carers and initiate and deliver specific interventions as
required, in accordance with the supporting practice competencies.
About us
Your local hospice
If you live in Southampton and West Hampshire, Mountbatten Hampshire (formerly Countess Mountbatten Hospice) is your local hospice.
We are a charity which provides free care and support to people with any life-limiting illness, including respiratory disease, Motor Neurone Disease, heart disease, advanced dementia, respiratory disease and cancer. We also provide free bereavement and psychological support to patients and their families.
Much of our work takes places in people's own homes across our community.
Mountbatten Hampshire is part of the Mountbatten Group, and its sister Hospice is Mountbatten Isle of Wight.
Mountbatten is there for our community every step of the way, at whatever stage of life, death and bereavement.
OUR VALUES
We
care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different,
and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local
community and to each other.
We
are experts in our field. We are professional at all times,
aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do.
We
are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively
to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and
financial resources.
We
respect our community. We exist for our local
population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more
together by working in partnership with others.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Tasks
- Develop and maintain respectful communications with patients and carers demonstrating empathy, compassion, understanding, diplomacy and honesty.
- Demonstrate an awareness of limits of practice and seek appropriate support and guidance from senior colleagues.
- Work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team and outside agencies to ensure individualised care is provided in a timely and responsive way.
- Provide assessment and advice by telephone to patients, carers and other professionals, as required from the Community Hub.
- Give and receive accurate reports and changes in patients condition.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records in all areas of clinical practice.
- Demonstrate skills for assessing and interpreting any changes in a patients condition and reporting to appropriate senior professional.
- Provide a rapid response visit to a patients home when required, assessing need and offering support and care.
- To undertake joint clinical assessments, in various settings, with other professionals and liaise as appropriate regarding ongoing care.
- Be aware of health and safety aspects of the service and adhere to lone worker policy.
- Promote a safe environment for all patients, carers, visitors and staff in the patients own home/inpatient unit as appropriate.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the full requirements of this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Tasks
- Develop and maintain respectful communications with patients and carers demonstrating empathy, compassion, understanding, diplomacy and honesty.
- Demonstrate an awareness of limits of practice and seek appropriate support and guidance from senior colleagues.
- Work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team and outside agencies to ensure individualised care is provided in a timely and responsive way.
- Provide assessment and advice by telephone to patients, carers and other professionals, as required from the Community Hub.
- Give and receive accurate reports and changes in patients condition.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records in all areas of clinical practice.
- Demonstrate skills for assessing and interpreting any changes in a patients condition and reporting to appropriate senior professional.
- Provide a rapid response visit to a patients home when required, assessing need and offering support and care.
- To undertake joint clinical assessments, in various settings, with other professionals and liaise as appropriate regarding ongoing care.
- Be aware of health and safety aspects of the service and adhere to lone worker policy.
- Promote a safe environment for all patients, carers, visitors and staff in the patients own home/inpatient unit as appropriate.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the full requirements of this role.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels including volunteers
- Experience of working in a community care setting
- Recent Palliative Care Experience
Skills
Essential
- Understands specific needs of patients requiring palliative or end of life care
- Demonstrate commitment to the patients right to be involved in decision making relating to their health care and ensuring decisions are understood by care teams
Abilities
Essential
- Physical capability of performing the role and carrying out responsibilities required by the duties of this post, including manual handling
- Able to work shift patterns including evenings, weekends and bank holidays
Qualifications
Essential
- Care Certificate Qualification/ NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care
- Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
- Clinically up to date in general nursing care
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels including volunteers
- Experience of working in a community care setting
- Recent Palliative Care Experience
Skills
Essential
- Understands specific needs of patients requiring palliative or end of life care
- Demonstrate commitment to the patients right to be involved in decision making relating to their health care and ensuring decisions are understood by care teams
Abilities
Essential
- Physical capability of performing the role and carrying out responsibilities required by the duties of this post, including manual handling
- Able to work shift patterns including evenings, weekends and bank holidays
Qualifications
Essential
- Care Certificate Qualification/ NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care
- Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
- Clinically up to date in general nursing care
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.
