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About the role
This role supports the provision of palliative care to children, young people and families living with a life limited condition across Sussex and South East Hampshire. Palliative care includes the provision of respite breaks, enabling children opportunities to have fun, make memories ‘adding life to shortened years’.
The hospice delivers end of life care to a small number of children, working with specialist teams providing training and advice to manage children’s symptoms effectively. You will work as part of a large team comprising of clinical staff, activities coordinators and the child and family support team.
Essential criteria
- Provide a skilled assessment of the needs and resources of referred individuals.
- Active involvement in caseload management from new referrals through to allocation.
- Liaise with the community and in-house nursing teams and colleagues in the Child and Family Support Team regarding referrals to the service.
- Deliver in-person and online therapeutic interventions to individuals (children/young people/adults), couples or family groups to support families who have a child with a life- limiting condition or family members who are bereaved.
- Deliver group therapeutic intervention to support those experiencing complex loss.
- Work with the multi-professional team to provide appropriate support services to children, young people and families known to CTH.
- To confidently identify and respond to the changing needs of the patient/family member, adjusting intervention accordingly and when required in discussion with the Team Leader.
- Support for families at points of crisis when appropriate
- Ensure that all work is appropriately recorded and entered on databases.
About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.
Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.
Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.
We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.
Benefits
- Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
- Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- On-site education support and study leave opportunities
- Option to access Health Shield and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
- Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
- Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in Service
Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.