Job Summary
Are you someone who likes to make a difference within your role, and do you hold ample amounts of empathy and compassion? Would you like to work where teamwork is at the forefront of everyone's mind? Where everyone supports each other and together provides the utmost care for their patients?
The postholder will support the registered nursing team in providing care and support to our patients - this could be on the Inpatient Unit at our Hospice, or out in the community with our Care at Home team, visiting patients in their own homes.
This role offers excellent opportunity for you to develop and enhance your healthcare skills and experience within palliative and end of life care.
Bank - hours to be worked flexibly including weekends, bank holidays, evenings/nights
About The Role - Inpatient Unit:
You will deliver high quality Specialist Palliative and End of Life care as part of the Inpatient Unit multidisciplinary team, under the direction of the designated nursing team.
You will support the assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centered care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients' ever-changing needs, maintaining the patients comfort, dignity and privacy at all times.
About the role: Care at Home Carer - full clean driving licence essential
You will be delivering direct care, treatment and emotional support for patients as required within set protocols/policies in accordance with the patient's individual care plan, working flexibly across all care services provided by Mountbatten.
This will involve working in patients' own homes or other places of care, and work in collaboration with colleagues to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate care and support.
This role requires promoting and maintaining effective liaison with the care team, and other health and social agencies involved in the patients' care.
About You:
You will be qualified to Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate and have previous care experience.
You will be required to deliver a high standard of direct patient care, with both direct and indirect supervision as delegated by the qualified nurse.
About Us
Mountbatten Hampshire is part of the Mountbatten Group, and its sister Hospice is Mountbatten Isle of Wight.
We pride ourselves on providing expert care and support to our communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, who are facing death, dying and bereavement.
Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those closest to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.
Our Values
We care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other
We are experts in our field. We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do
We are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources
We respect our community. We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others
Salary: £12.42 an hour (£24,276 per annum FTE) Mountbatten Band 2
Reference number: B0507-VC219
Job locations: Botley Rd West End Southampton Hampshire SO30 3JB
Job Description Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Descriptions, which include the Person Specifications, for the full duties of these exciting roles with us here at Mountbatten.
Person Specification
Other
Essential
- For the Care at Home role: a full clean UK driving licence, with access to a vehicle insured for business use.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a good standard
- Care Certificate or NVQ level 2 in health care or equivalent or willing to study towards
Desirable
- Specialist palliative care training
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate commitment to the patients right to be involved in decision making relating to their health care and ensuring decisions are understood by care teams
- Good IT Skills including Microsoft and email applications
- Good communication skills to explain complex and sensitive information effectively in both written and oral to both patients, families, carers and other professionals
- Knowledge of pressure area care, nutrition and moving and handling with the ability to assess risk
Desirable
- Commitment to improving and promoting palliative care services
- Motivated and committed to personal and professional development
Abilities
Essential
- To respond to difficult situations in a sensitive manner and have the ability to deal with difficult emotional situations
- To be an effective advocate for the patient within multi-disciplinary teams across all healthcare settings
- To work shift patterns on a rota basis including nights, weekend, bank holidays
- To be flexible in covering shifts at short notice.
Desirable
- To effectively manage own time and workloads
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing personal care and support for patients within care in a hospital, hospice or community setting
- Experience of working in a person centred/personal outcomes approach
Desirable
- Awareness of palliative care issues
- Recent Palliative Care Experience
- Experience of dealing with vulnerable adults in a care setting
- Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels including volunteers
Person Specification
Essential
- Experience of providing personal care and support for patients within care in a hospital, hospice or community setting
- Experience of working in a person centred/personal outcomes approach
Desirable
- Awareness of palliative care issues
- Recent Palliative Care Experience
- Experience of dealing with vulnerable adults in a care setting
- Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels including volunteers
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Address: Botley Rd West End Southampton Hampshire SO30 3JB
Employer's website: https://www.mountbatten.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
