Role Summary
The Palliative Care Facilitator is a new, innovative pilot role, progressing the Enhanced Healthcare in Care Homes work. The role will be pivotal member of the Adult Health and Social Care team linking with and supporting primary care, community nursing and the multidisciplinary team at practice and community health and social care team level for patients within the community setting.
The Palliative Care Facilitator will establish links and liaison between care homes and all other aspects of the health and social care community within a locality. The post holder will participate in audit and research to measuring clinical effectiveness and user satisfaction. The post holder may be expected support and develop students of nursing and/or allied health professions through mentorship
Whilst the post holder will not hold a clinical caseload, they will be expected to provide support directly to individual people as well as care providers. Please see Job Description for further detail.
About the Role
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
Applications are invited for an opportunity to apply for a Band 6 Palliative Care Facilitator role within the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. There are two fixed term or secondment position available for 12 months, ideally working 37.5 hours per week, which would be suitable for a Registered Nurse/Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist.
We are looking for two B6 Palliative Care Facilitator to join our dedicated and highly professional team of nurses and allied health professionals working in the Devon location. One role will be based within the Woodbury/Exmouth/ Budleigh area and one role will be based within an area of Exeter. This is a great opportunity for introducing innovative approaches to providing Advance Care Planning support to staff and people in residential care settings, and support the health and social care community.
In this Palliative Care Facilitator role, the post holder will be expected to have studied at degree level and able to demonstrate experience and understanding of Advance Care Planning and delivering end of life care in the community, in partnership working within an integrated team including care homes, medical colleagues in Primary care, Community Nursing, allied health professionals, Social Services and voluntary agencies.
The post holder will work with care homes within a locality, to identify people in last year of life and create comprehensive advance care plans for those residents. This is achieved by bringing together all the information about a person’s identified care and support needs and exploring what is important to them, to meet these within a single personalised advance care plan, based on what matters to the person. Palliative care facilitators will review residents’ needs and help them and their carers to access the services and support they require to understand and manage their own health and wellbeing, referring to other professionals where appropriate.
The post holder will have advanced communication skills and will also support care homes in delivering quality end of life care, working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure appropriate end of life care is supported as outlined in the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care – a national framework for local action 2021-2026 NHS strategy. This may include liaison between services, education for carers and active engagement in developing systems.
This post brings great scope for integrated working, and the post holder to be able to demonstrate strong clinical leadership skills and develop and enhance relationships with care provider colleagues. The position will include driving to support patients within their own residential settings. This is a community-based post and you will be required to drive between clinics and to participate in wider team activities within the Trust both in person and through MS Teams events.
We welcome enquiries about this role before or during your application process.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week
Interview Date: TBC
For further information please contact Harriet Nicholls (Advanced Clinical Practitioner for End of Life, Community) h.nicholls5@nhs.net, 07513 702848
** As this is a new role and it may be something very different to what you have done previously, we encourage you to ring or email to find out more about the opportunity and talk through what the role entails. **
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
