Team Leader - Clinical Services

About us: St Wilfrid's Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an 'outstanding' provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community. We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework. We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues. The Role: Our people are vital to the future of

St Wilfrid's Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment. We are looking for a permanent full-time Team Leader in our Community Nursing Team, and a Team Leader in our Inpatient Unit for a fixed-term of 2 years working 22.5 hours a week. The Community Team Leader will work as part of a multi-professional team providing palliative nursing care interventions for patients and their families across clinical services. They will provide clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and allied staff, ensuring effective day to day running of Community Services, including nurse Line, same day response team and Care at Home, whilst supporting the Community Nurse manager and the Associate Director for clinical services. The Inpatient Unit Team Leader will work as part of a multi-professional team providing palliative nursing care interventions for patients and their families across hospice
services. They will provide clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and allied staff, ensuring effective day to day running of the IPU, whilst supporting the Head of IPU. Benefits included: We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership Discounted cinema tickets Employee assistance programmes Additional training opportunities Supportive working environment We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including; various shift patterns and part time hours. If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources team on or email Please note that CV's will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability. Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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