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