St Michael's Hospice (Hastings & Rother)

Community Partnerships & Inclusion Lead

The closing date is 14 September 2025

Job summary

At St Michaels Hospice, we know how important local communities are in helping people connect and support each other.By combining this with our expertise in palliative and end of life care, we can enhance the experience of people experiencing dying, death and loss.

To help us do this were looking for someone to join us as Community Partnerships and Inclusion Lead. If you have an interest in public health palliative care, understand how to build strong communities, and are great at bringing people together, wed love to hear from you.

You dont need to have worked in end-of-life care before, but you do need to understand how valuable and meaningful this work is. You should also be passionate about diversity and inclusion.

You will be a dynamic, creative individual with exceptional interpersonal skills someone who can build strong relationships, lead a team and drive a variety of diverse projects forward.

Main duties of the job

To strategically lead programmes, aligned with a public health palliative care approach, to

engage with the community and civic institutions to build a compassionate community that

effectively supports each other in dying, death and loss throughout Hastings and Rother.

About us

We support and enable the community of Hastings and Rother to live well with dying, death and loss.

We identify what matters most to patients and families, whats making life difficult for them, including worries and concerns. We then create a care and support plan that can be adapted when things change.

Our services are provided via in-patient beds and at home and we also offer Wellbeing support, both out-patient and virtual. Expert bereavement support is available for anyone struggling to come to terms with the death of a loved one.

We also recognise the communitys role in supporting those nearing the end of life and will play our part in building supportive neighbourhood networks via our compassionate communities work.

Date posted

21 August 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£40,687.47 to £45,791.57 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0518-25-0000

Job locations

St. Michaels Hospice

25 Upper Maze Hill

St. Leonards-on-sea

East Sussex

TN38 0LB

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Key responsibilities

1.1. Develop, implement and evaluate a strategy that enables the Hospice to understand and appreciate the community assets that already exist, build connections with others and takes action to address gaps in support for those living with dying, death and loss.

1.2. Strategically lead community development activities to discover, connect and mobilise the community and identify community champions who can lead the development of compassionate communities in their local area.

1.3. Strategically lead community volunteering activities that are aligned with and support the Hospices vision, ensuring that volunteers have the appropriate skills and support to deliver, and that there are mechanisms in place to measure effectiveness.

1.4. Ensure that within the strategy there is a balanced approach to clinically- led, Hospice-led and community-led initiatives. Where possible enable Hospice-led projects to transition to being community led.

1.5. In partnership with the Extended Leadership Team, raise awareness internally of a public health palliative care approach, ensuring this focus is well understood and integrated into strategic workstreams.

1.6. Establish and embed internal mechanisms to enable all areas of the Hospice to develop stronger connections within the community to support people living with dying, death and loss.

1.7. Lead the Hospice in adopting a positive approach to risk that enables the full potential of community volunteers, assets and shared partnerships to be realised.

1.8. Discover and implement opportunities for the Hospice and other stakeholders to listen to the experience of local people related to the processes of dying, death and loss, to guide the shape of the Hospices work.

1.9. Work collaboratively with the clinical directors to ensure community involvement in the co-design and co-production of services and initiatives.

1.10. Drawing on the Hospices existing connections and intelligence, proactively seek out and develop relationships, partnerships and networks with a range of local stakeholders from the voluntary, community, public and private sectors and those who have strong local networks, and who may wish to create a Compassionate Charter for Hastings and Rother.

1.11. Support the Diversity and Inclusion Lead to progress community-related diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) workstreams to ensure that the are no barriers to access by any members of the community.

1.12. As part of the DEI steering group take responsibility for translating the community related DEI action plan into objectives that align with the compassionate communities agenda.

1.13. Lead the Diversity & Inclusion Group (DIG), ensuring co-ordination, implementation and monitoring of agreed projects and workplans.

1.14. Support the Community Partnerships and Inclusion team (CPI team) and the DIG to organise and facilitate events, workshops, information sessions and training to raise awareness and celebrate existing or aligned inclusive initiatives within the community.

1.15. Identify clear and consistent messages for use in publicity materials to promote the purpose and benefits of establishing inclusive, compassionate communities. Work with the Marketing and Communications team to develop a communications plan.

1.16. Contribute to the dissemination of this work by presenting at internal and external local and national events, particularly contributing to overall learning for the hospice sector on public health palliative care approaches; and by talking to Hospice visitors and funders about this approach.

1.17. With the Trusts Fundraiser, identify possible funding opportunities and develop business cases to support funding applications. Ensure effective implementation, evaluation and reporting of externally funded projects ensuring compliance with funder requirements and agreed project timeframes.

1.18. Explore and develop partnerships with local research teams who can complement this work and evaluate and evidence the impact of initiatives.

1.19. Participate in managers meetings and provide progress updates to the Extended Leadership Team (ELT). Prepare reports for, and present at, the Board and other Committees as required.

1.20. Scope and define effective monitoring and evaluation requirements; ensure information is being gathered and accurate records are maintained to support longer term impact measurement and current and future funding opportunities.

1.21. Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and opportunities to support decision making.

1.22. Provide effective and supportive line management to direct reports, addressing issues of concern in a timely manner whilst demonstrating and influencing good management practices.

1.23. Effectively manage all allocated budgets including those for externally funded projects.