Living Well Co-ordinator - Sobell and Katharine House

We are seeking an enthusiastic, energetic, creative and proactive Living Well Coordinator to join the Living Well team at Sobell House and Katharine House Hospice. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside the other members of our multidisciplinary team, to coordinate, develop and provide a wide range of wellbeing focused support to our caseload. The post holder will arrange, co-ordinate and develop the Living Well programme of sessions, activities and courses as well as the current provision of online/remote support., The Living Well service aims to enable and empower individuals to live well by equipping them with skills and knowledge to help them achieve their goals and to live day to day with a sense of purpose and wellbeing., Sobell and Katharine House are NHS hospices within the Oxford University Hospitals Trust specially designed to provide care and support for adults with progressive life-limiting illness, along with their families. Their work is enhanced through the support of the Sobell House Hospice Charity and the Katharine House Hospice Charity., Support with the operational management of the Living Well services, including:

• Coordinating practical and emotional wellbeing support to patients, their families, friends, and carers.
• Facilitating sessions and courses, both within the hospice and at sites across the community as well as online/remote.
• Designing and scheduling sessions and courses and further developing the Living Well services in collaboration with Living Well Lead and wider MDT.
Clinical
• Accept referrals to agreed criteria.
• Work in partnership with other professionals to deliver co-ordinated programmes of care effectively and referring patients to other practitioners as required.
• Assessing health and psychosocial needs of individual patients, and provide care to meet these needs, through a process of shared decision making.
• Undertaking 1:1 and MDT assessment of patients, establishing personalised goals and assessing suitability for available activities.
• Providing physical support to patients accessing services if required. This may include moving and handling.
• Communicate with patients in ways that empower them to make informed choices about their health and health care.
  
  We're looking for an individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills - a team player committed to collaborative working with colleagues and patients to promote self-care. The successful candidate will demonstrate innovative and confident teaching skills and an ability to assess patients' health and psychosocial needs to plan appropriate care through shared decision making. In return we will be able to offer a supportive and friendly working environment, with access to teaching, clinical supervision, involvement in research and opportunities for relevant postgraduate study., Nursing/Occupational Therapy qualification/degree or equivalent relevant professional qualification
• Registration with professional body - e.g. NMC
Desirable criteria
• Specialist skill that would enable co-ordinator to lead sessions both face to face and remotely
• Palliative care module at diploma/degree or Masters level, Demonstrates up to date knowledge in palliative care, Evidence of being able to work across organisational boundaries, Experience of working as a Band 6 nurse
• Experience of undertaking complex holistic assessment
Desirable criteria
• Co-ordinated or led volunteers in the past
Personal skillsEssential criteria
• Ability to problem solve in a creative and flexible way, produce new ideas and insights and use own initiative.
• Experience of working as part of MDT
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment , we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.