Project Facilitator for Health Inequalities in Peolc - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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2 weeks ago

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Band 7 12 month - Fixed Term Contract - Project Facilitator for Addressing Health Inequalities in Palliative and End of Life Care

We are looking for an ambitious and experienced healthcare care practitioner with experience in quality improvement, advance care planning and end of life care conversations, to join our well-established multidisciplinary Palliative and End of Life Care Team at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a 12 month post funded by GSTT Charity. We would welcome applicants from a nursing or allied health professional background.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the "Addressing Health Inequalities" workstream of the over-arching "Let's Talk: Advance Care Planning" project.

If you are looking for an amazing opportunity for career progression and to expand your skills in quality improvement, project delivery, research or audit, then please come and join our team.

We are a member of the Palliative Care Clinical Academic Group, providing unique access to world leading researchers in the field.

You will have the opportunity to develop your teaching skills through delivering training across the wider Trust. We support our staff wellbeing through clinical supervision as well as multiple team and Trust wide initiatives.

We really look forward to welcoming you to our team

Closing Date: 03/03/2024 at Midnight

Interview Date: 13/03/2024

We are looking for a clinician with skills to be capable of project management and leadership.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the 'Addressing Health Inequalities' workstream of the over-arching 'Let's Talk: Advance Care Planning' project.

We have identified several areas that require development and improvement to address the health inequalities of our diverse local population.

This includes the need to improve the accessibility of resources and support that we offer, including face to face conversations, written and digital information.

Our focus is to improve and embed the training we provide to professionals as well as the level of information we provide to our patients and carers so they can meaningfully engage in advance care planning and end of life care conversations.

The post holder will maintain relationships with stakeholders and collaborate with the relevant parties to deliver quality materials and ensure equitable access to resources and patient information about culturally sensitive advance care planning as part of palliative and end of life care.

The post holder will be required to work with the patient & public engagement specialist to create new diverse patient story films, develop educational materials to improve the cultural competence of our workforce and recruit to a patient & public reference group who will contribute to the co-design and evaluation of the project outcomes.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts.

We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

The Palliative Care team provides specialist information and supportive care to people facing serious illness. This includes symptom control and advance care planning.

We recognise that emotional, spiritual, family and financial worries can be just as important as physical problems and we support with these aspects of care as well.

Our Palliative and End of Life Care team includes specialist nurses and doctors, pharmacists, social workers, psychological support staff and administrative staff to help you cope with the consequences of serious illnesses such as cancer and long-term health conditions.

We are able to see patients in hospital, in their own home, and in our outpatient clinics.

We work closely with GPs, hospital doctors and community nurses, as well as other local hospitals and hospices, to support our patients and those important to them.

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Responsibilities:

To lead the process of creating new diverse patient story films and collaborate with stakeholders to design, execute and promote new educational materials to equip our workforce to have culturally sensitive ACP and EOLC conversations.

To have an in-depth understanding and passion for equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and cultural competence in the context of Palliative and End of Life Care

To advocate and promote the value of ACP to health care professionals within the acute and community settings

To maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders and collaborate with the relevant parties to deliver qu