Job Description
Providing outstanding care as rated by CQC, Dorothy House provides compassionate, supportive and holistic care for people in our community with a life-limiting illness. Our focus is on quality of life, helping patients to live well and die well.
We are here for anyone in our community who is facing a life-limiting illness. Using our full breadth of service, we create individual care journeys, which start at diagnosis and continue with bereavement support for family, carers and children.
The successful candidate will work alongside existing members of a supportive Community Palliative Care Team (CPCT) and will contribute to the delivery of palliative care by providing expertise in decision-making, advance care planning & holistic symptom control. This position will be within the East Somerset area.
COMMUNITY NURSE SPECIALIST | Band 6 | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata)
The successful candidate duties will include:
1. To participate in the development of services in line with the organisational strategic direction, to assist individuals to support 'Death is a part of life', 'Living Well', to lead to a 'Peaceful death', incorporating a 'Supported bereavement' and participate in developing/maintaining an 'increase in income'.
2. To provide coaching support to the CPCT within the development of a new model of community palliativ...