Description
Your role will be crucial in supporting individuals entering the last phase of their lives, enabling them to discuss their priorities and helping achieve their wishes and goals. You will also support families and friends while providing expert care for a dignified death. Your responsibilities will include offering symptom control, social, emotional, and spiritual care, as well as advising and educating the primary healthcare team and hospital staff as part of an interdisciplinary team.
St Christopher's Hospice is an extraordinary place to work, aiming to deliver high-quality care and support to patients, families, and carers. The organisation values its staff and offers a comprehensive wellbeing programme.
The successful candidate will be a compassionate and resilient individual with experience in palliative care or oncology, possessing excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
Key benefits of joining St Christopher's include:
- A stimulating and rewarding career with opportunities to make a real difference
- Access to excellent training and development opportunities, including master's-level education and non-medical prescribing
- Various health and wellbeing schemes
- A competitive contributory pension scheme and life assurance scheme
- Generous beneficiary plan
- Access to plenty of free local street parking
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical expertise in palliative care to patients and their families
- Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to deliver comprehensive care
- Offer symptom control, social, emotional, and spiritual care
- Educate and advise the primary healthcare team and hospital staff
- Manage stressful situations effectively
Requirements:
- Experience in palliative care or oncology
- Relevant qualifications
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
- Compassionate and resilient nature
Terms and Conditions:
- Salary: £32,250.60 to £36,390.60 per year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time (22.5 hours per week)
- Location: Sydenham, London SE26 6DZ
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