General duties
- Working with the CEO and Director of Nursing and Quality to lead the expansion of Teesside Hospice clinical services and develop new initiatives aligned with the hospice’s strategic plan, via:
- assessing the feasibility and options for offering current hospice-based services within the community; develop these into deliverables and implement.
- scoping, developing and implementing plans (including funding options) to develop a virtual ward for palliative and end of life care across Teesside.
- assess the feasibility of expanding the hospice’s services to include an offer for frailty and/or dementia.
- build on the existing commercial initiatives, which expand the current emotional support and wellbeing offers to employers, to generate income for the hospice.
- take an entrepreneurial approach to any opportunities that arise for the development of funded clinical services.
- Engage and collaborate with other hospice departments and external partners to ensure maximum efficiency, effectiveness and impact of any services developed
- Ensure all developments are co-designed.
- Deliver agreed goals, objectives and targets.
- Complete reports and updates on progress as required.
- To work with the Trustees and Senior Management Team in delivering corporate objectives.
- To represent the hospice at regional and national levels, developing partnerships, sharing best practice and integrating this knowledge within the organisation.
- To take responsibility for managing own workload and personal development.
- To undertake any other appropriate duties with the competence level and general level of responsibility of the post as required by the CEO.
- From time to time there may be a requirement to work outside normal working hours.
- To always behave in a professional manner, following all policies and procedures, reflecting and maintaining the values and ethos of Teesside Hospice and generating a positive image of the organisation.