Job Overview
The Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care will provide strategic and clinical leadership, alongside relevant colleagues and services, leading on pan Health Board strategic development of Palliative and End of Life Care, including working closely with national and regional colleagues and groups. They will be responsible for the development of a Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy, and driving delivery of this strategy across the Health Board, within the Health Boards financial, workforce, operational targets and strategic objectives. The postholder will be accountable for overseeing clinical governance and quality relating to Palliative and End of Life Care.
Establishing effective working relationships across clinical and professional groups will be key to the success of the role, including participation in decision-making, target setting, workforce and job planning, and appraisal and revalidation processes
Main duties of the job
To develop a Health Board wide concept of good end of life care.
To advise the executive lead for end of life care on an end of life strategy for the organisation, consistent with NHS Wales' Service Specification for Palliative and End of Life Care, A Healthier Mid + West Wales, and other relevant strategies.
To support design and delivery of education on palliative and end of life care for health board staff, and wider colleagues delivering palliative and end of life care.
To advise on the implementation of nationally agreed measures of outcomes & experience in end of life care.
To improve end of life care from the perspective of patients and their informal carers.
To ensure that peoples' individual needs, priorities and preferences for end of life care are identified, documented, reviewed, respected and acted upon whereverpossible.
To work with the relevant stakeholders to ensure end of life care services seek and act on the views of those with relevant lived experience.
To engage and work with relevant stakeholders and partners (including voluntary sector providers) to improve provision of coordinated and 'seamless' care for patients approaching the ends of their lives.
Working for our organisation
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, inc luding our volunteers, through:
Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and With ybush General in Haverfordwest ;
Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Re source Centre in Pembrokeshire;
48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only p roviders and 11 health centres;
Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
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