Overview
These posts will be adult hospice posts with the opportunity to be involved in transitional care for young adults. We have adult inpatient units at St Barnabas in Worthing and Martlets in Hove, each housing 8 specialist and up to 6 nurse-led All Age Continuing Care beds; a community team; hospice at home and living well services. Services are supported by multiprofessional teams with nursing, medical, therapy, social work, chaplaincy and counselling dedicated input. Successful applicants will be assigned a primary site of work and there will be opportunities for working across both adult hospices with an expectation to contribute to internal cross cover to maintain patient safety and service delivery. The proportion of time spent at each site will vary depending on the total number of PAs in your job plan.
Opportunities
These posts also offer the exciting opportunity to lead a hospital in-reach and liaison pilot following a successful bid to the Sussex Cancer Alliance. We have a well-established history of working with colleagues across the NHS and social care sector to facilitate access to specialist palliative care in the appropriate setting. However, pathways where they exist are predominantly unfunded and may need to adapt in line with the NHS 10 year plan shift to Neighbourhood Health. These posts will both include up to 2 PAs (or 20% of job plan) to focus on identifying better ways of working to reduce reliance on the acute sector for specialist palliative care patients working alongside an advance nurse practitioner.
Education and Collaboration
St Barnabas House and Martlets are training hospices and offer ample opportunity to participate in education programmes for all levels of healthcare professionals both internally through our education department and teaching for medical students from Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities of the posts include active involvement with audit and clinical governance and involvement in research will be encouraged. The senior medical team contribute to and lead on aspects of clinical governance working alongside a multiprofessional leadership team across Southern Hospice Group.
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