Job Description
Hospice at Home Team Lead
Hospice Band: 7
Hours: 37.5
Starting Salary: £52,768 WTE pro rata per annum (based on 37.5 hour week)
(rising to £56,747 WTE subject to satisfactory performance review)
+ Pension + Benefits
St Columba's exists to give everyone who needs it the very best hospice care. We're an independent charity at the heart of our local community, offering free, flexible and person-centred palliative care and support to our patients and their families.
As Hospice at Home Services Team Lead, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operational leadership of our community services, Community Palliative Care Team, Care at Home Team and the Virtual Ward Team.
Using your advanced assessment and decision-making skills, you will provide direct patient care and expert clinical input, ensuring the highest standards of palliative and end-of-life care.
You will work closely with our Head of Clinical Services and our multi-disciplinary team and wider healthcare partners across primary, secondary, voluntary, and social care services. You’ll also play a key role in strategic service development and planning, ensuring our care is accessible, responsive, and aligned with national and regional priorities
TO APPLY:
For more information including an application form and job description, click the 'Apply' button above to visit our Hospice website. We welcome enquiries about our vacancies. For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Helen Gray, Hospice at Home Team Lead, using the contact details on our website.
MORE INFORMATION:
This post requires the post holder to have a criminal records check at a PVG scheme record update level. An application will be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post. A joint application will be made which the Hospice will pay for.
St Columba's Hospice Care is an independent Scottish Charity, SC003634, regulated by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). Scotland’s first modern hospice, it first opened its doors in 1977. Over the years it has grown and evolved into an exemplary provider of specialist palliative care for thousands of people with life-limiting illnesses in Edinburgh and the Lothians annually, while also providing support to their relatives and loved ones.
The Hospice offers competitive rates of pay, generous pension contributions, annual leave allowance and occupational sick pay entitlements that increase with length of service at St Columba's Hospice, and a supportive and rewarding place to work, with our own on-site education and research team - we're an Investor in People organisation! For a full summary of terms and conditions of employment please click on to our website using the Apply refer to the vacancy pack for the role you are interested in.