Job summary
East Anglia Children's Hospices are recruiting for a Head of Wellbeing and Spiritual Care to join their friendly team on a full-time basis for 37.5 hours per week, although applications for flexible/part-time working (minimum 30 hours) are welcomed. The post-holder will be based in Ipswich, Norwich and Milton, Cambridgeshire.
As the Head of Wellbeing and Spiritual Care, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the holistic care and support provided to children and their families within our hospices. You will have a strategic focus on developing and implementing a comprehensive wellbeing strategy and will lead initiatives aimed at fostering emotional, and spiritual wellbeing across all three sites.
The role will manage all wellbeing services via the locality wellbeing leads on each site. Professionally qualified therapists will be supported to continue direct clinical work at EACH and maintain their registration.
Main duties of the job
- Overall management of all wellbeing and spiritual care services at each including staff and budgets via the locality wellbeing leads and accountable directly to the director of care.
- Work collaboratively with head of nursing, head of performance and delivery and the business development manager to be part of the each senior leadership team.
About us
We are currently caring for over 350 families with children needing palliative and end of life care and are providing support to more than 200 bereaved families.
Our full and diverse range of services includes:nursing care, specialist symptom management nursing, short breaks, wellbeing activities, counselling & therapies, care at end of life, bereavement support, and volunteer services in the home; all meeting the individual needs of the baby, child, young person and their whole family.
The support you need to enable you to provide safe and effective care and support to the children and their families who use our service. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits:
- Pool car provided when working in the community
- Free onsite parking & subsidised meals at our hospices
- NHS pension - continuation if already contributing
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement - 27 days + 8 UK Bank Holidays
- Additional holiday purchase scheme
- AVIVA pension package up to 7% employer contribution including life assurance
- Wellbeing support & employee assistance programme
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact our Human Resource Department at: [email protected].
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professionally registered in a relevant clinical field e.g. Psychology, Nursing, Social Work, Counselling.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leadership in Spiritual Care.
- Knowledge of Paediatric Palliative Care, grief support, and spiritual care practices.
- Understanding of the unique needs and challenges faced by children with life-limiting conditions and their families.
- Knowledge of NICE and other national guidelines on childrens palliative and end of life care and other national guidelines on psychological therapies and spiritual care.
- Good understanding of other professionals theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and setting, and its implication for both clinical practice and professional management.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological/ emotional and spiritual wellbeing therapies and holistic assessment methodologies.
- Knowledge of theory and practice in outcome and experience.
- Experience of managing staff.
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified therapists in own area of therapeutic expertise.
- Experience of multiagency and partnership working.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
The Treehouse Hospice
St. Augustine's Gardens
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP3 8NS