Job summary

Nottinghamshire Hospice lead the provision of compassionate, community palliative care to those who are dying in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire from a terminal or life limiting illness. Our values are embedded throughout the organization -Compassion, Trust and Ambition.

We are now looking for an exceptional, experienced senior clinical leader to join our team in a Director of Care job-share role as our current Director of Care is looking to reduce their hours. We have a strong senior leadership team who work extremely well together with high levels of trust, compassion and ambition. This is wide and varied strategic role which will shape the delivery of our services into the future, as well as driving quality of care and compliance within our current services. You will be required to work 18.75 hours per week (0.5 FTE)

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday predominantly between the hours of 8.00am 5.30pm with some evening meetings and participation in the on-call rota.

For further information please see the job description. If would like to arrange a conversation week commencing 10th June with Rachel Hucknall, our CEO or Rachel McCarty, our Director of Care, please contact Julie Hart, Executive Assistant, on 0115 9101008 ext 239 or [email protected]

Main duties of the job

The job share and partner will be responsible for the following, between them.

The post holder is a key member of the Senior Leadership Team and will be responsible for development and delivery of the Care Strategy for Nottinghamshire Hospice. This includes the leadership, operational management and development of clinical services and clinical governance to ensure high quality care and evidence-based clinical practice. In collaboration with other members of the management team the post holder will contribute to the wider strategic development of the Hospice and work to ensure objectives are achieved.

On behalf of the Hospice, they will also hold the public position of:

Registered Manager for the Hospice with the Care Quality Commission

Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs

Safeguarding Officer

Caldicott Guardian

The post holder will also; ensure that the hospice services are compliant with regulatory bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission, lead the governance agenda for the Hospice across all service areas, ensuring compliance with the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Quality Schedule requirements and ensure compliance with contractual requirements for services provided for Clinical Commissioning Groups and other commissioners.

About us

Our mission is to add life to every day for people who have been told their illness cannot be cured, helping them to live as actively and well as possible with care that puts them at the front of everything we say and do.

Our Values:

Compassion We are focused on:

being inclusive; being kind and having

empathy; empowering others; having

integrity and being patient.

Trust We are focused on:

being authentic; unified; loyal;

accountable; trustworthy; responsible;

reliable and professional.

Ambition - We are focused on:

the growth of the Hospice; being

courageous; getting the right outcomes

and results; improvement of our services;

being the best version of ourselves for

the benefit of each other and our service

users.