Band 6 Team Sister / Therapist - Palliative Care

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Band 6 Team Sister / Therapist with HCRG Care Group based at Gravesham Community Hospital, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 6 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 5% high cost area allowance
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

Job Introduction

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Band 6 Staff Nurse or Therapist, with specialist knowledge and experience in discharge planning and pathways, to join our Community Transfer of Care Hub based at Gravesham Community Hospital.

Your focus will be to support palliative and EOL discharge for the Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley area. For this role you will be required to attend the local acute hospital to review and assess any palliative /EOL patients to ensure smooth discharge into the community, you will also be responsible to follow the identified patients after discharge and complete any Continuing Health Care checklists or Fast tracks. You must have an excellent knowledge and understanding of palliative care.

Gravesham Community Hospital is located a short distance from St Georges Shopping Centre and is surrounded by well-known food establishments and local coffee shops making it an ideal location to be based from.

Whilst you will be based at Gravesham Community Hospital, you will be required to travel to local acute hospitals to provide in-reach support to meet the needs of the service and you’ll also be expected to visit patients in their homes and in care homes to undertake assessments in line with our "Home First" approach. Therefore, a driving license and access to a car for work purposes is essential for this role.

Main Responsibilities

As a Band 6 Team Sister / Therapist you will:

• Support and manage the Community Transfer of Care Hub Team on a day-to-day basis, providing clinical/management leadership, support, and guidance.
• As requested, support the Team Senior Sister and Clinical Service Manager with recruitment.
• Have an oversight of the bed management processes and reporting requirements
• Participate in the induction of new staff, students, bank, and agency staff.
• Involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of community services/placements.
• Maximise best use of clinical resources and organise clinical cover where necessary.
• Monitor and evaluate patient flow, admission, and discharge arrangements, take responsibility for initiating improvements.
• Support members of the team with facilitating safe and timely discharge plans.
• Take responsibility for the most complex cases, including leading on the assessment of homeless patients ensuring that statutory responsibilities have been met.
• Reviewing complex patients that require 1-1 funding.
• Review and support with any safeguarding issues raised.
• Develop and support robust effective communication with all HCRG Care Group colleagues and other relevant agencies i.e., GPs, social care, nursing colleagues.
• Take clinical responsibility for any placements made by the Community Transfer of Care Hub and to deal with any issues arising from these placements.

For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will be / will have:

• Registered Nurse (RN) or registered Therapists (OT / Physio) with current live PIN on NMC register or HCPC register
• Significant discharge pathway experience with excellent knowledge in complex discharge planning across all areas of the organisation and acute hospital sites
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification 998/997/mentorship.
• Continuous Professional Development Portfolio
• Specialty knowledge and experience in discharge planning and pathways
• Experience of working within a multiagency health and care system
• Relevant post registration clinical experience

As this role requires travel, a driving license and access to a car is required for this role.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. 

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. 

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. 

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