# Head of Supportive Care

**Company**: St Joseph's Hospice
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £73,474.49 to £83,959.64 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and transform a diverse portfolio of supportive care services, ensuring that people living with life-limiting illness, and those important to them, receive outstanding, person-centred support that enables them to live well until the end of life.

Reporting to the Director of Care, you will provide strategic, operational and professional leadership across a broad range of services.

As a key member of the Hospice leadership team, you will lead the development and delivery of our supportive care strategy in line with the Hospice Strategy 2026-2031. You will drive service transformation, develop innovative models of care, strengthen community partnerships, expand volunteer-led services, reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes for patients, families and carers.

**Main duties of the job**

- Professional registration within a health or social care profession.

- Significant senior leadership experience within palliative care, community health, supportive care or social care services.

- Experience of leading large multidisciplinary teams and complex services.

- Strong strategic planning, operational management and service transformation skills.

- Experience of partnership working across health, social care, community and voluntary sector organisations.

- A strong understanding of safeguarding legislation, governance, quality improvement and regulatory requirements.

- Experience of budget management, workforce planning and service development.

- Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.

- A commitment to inclusion, reducing health inequalities and improving access to care for underserved communities.

- A leadership style that reflects the values of compassion, advocacy, justice, quality and respect for human dignity.

**Benefits**

- 27 days holiday plus public holidays, increasing up to 33 days with service

- Subsidised cafe and early access to retail sale events

- Season ticket loan

- Continuation of NHS Pension Scheme or an excellent salary-exchange pension scheme

- Santander cycles discount and cycle to work scheme

- Health Cash Plan and access to the EAP services

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- operational management
- service transformation
- partnership working
- safeguarding
- budget management
- workforce planning
- communication
- influencing
- stakeholder engagement

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