Visa Sponsorship Jobs 2024

 Support Worker Job Summary

The Palliative Care Support Worker is a member of the hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team (SPCT) working at Royal Sussex County (RSCH) and Princess Royal Hospitals (PRH). Their role is integral to maintaining an efficient and effective palliative care service and ensuring patients and those important to them are able to access the support they require, as well as other health care professionals.

The Palliative Care Support Worker works alongside and under the guidance of the Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) to provide support, advice and assessment for patients who have been diagnosed with an advanced life-limiting disease. They are often the first point of contact, providing an essential link between the CNS team and health care professionals in the hospital, triaging calls, offering advice and support, signposting and referring on as required / appropriate.

Main duties of the job

The Support Worker will work alongside the palliative care clinical nurse specialist team to build and maintain good working relationships with health care professional teams both within the hospital and in the community.

The Support Worker will  provide accessible information to patients and those important to them, offering resources and signposting to external charitable organisations.

The Support Worker will liaise with and refer to community palliative care services to ensure coordinated patient care from hospital into the community.

To coordinate the collection of routine service activity data and support palliative care leadership team in presenting data for quarterly and annual reports.

To manage the administrative work for the palliative care service including relevant information sharing and onward referrals.

To provide patient and family psycho-social support and guidance, alongside the palliative care clinical nurse specialist team.

About us

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance – because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.

Person Specification

Essential and desirable for role

Essential

  • GCSE English Language and Mathematics (Grades A-C) or equivalent
  • Experience of working in health or social care environment
  • Experience of multi-professional team-working
  • Experience in the use of data management
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
  • Excellent IT skills
  • Ability to show empathy and understand the difficulties faced by people living with advanced life-limiting disease

Desirable

  • NVQ4 or training in foundation degree in health and social care equivalent, or equivalent through short courses -Foundation degree in health and social care
  • Knowledge of palliative and end of life care
  • Experience working with patients in hospital
  • Willingness to undertake learning and development courses relevant to Palliative Care speciality

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Essential

  • Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles
  • Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 03 November 2024

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.