Head of Wellbeing & Spiritual Care
Job Summary: As the Head of Wellbeing and Spiritual Care, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the holistic care and support provided to children and their families within our hospices. With a strategic focus on developing and implementing a comprehensive wellbeing strategy, you will lead initiatives aimed at fostering emotional, and spiritual wellbeing across all three sites.
The role will manage all wellbeing services via the Locality wellbeing leads on each site at Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge, based in one hospice but with a regular presence in all 3 Professionally qualified therapists will be supported to continue direct clinical work at EACH and maintain their registration Responsibilities Overall management of all wellbeing and spiritual care services at each including staff and budgets via the locality wellbeing leads and accountable Directly to the Director of care.
Work collaboratively with Head of Nursing, Head of Performance and delivery and the business development manager to be part of the each senior leadership team. Responsibility for developing a Wellbeing Strategy and Vision: o Lead the development of a wellbeing strategy and vision tailored to the unique needs of children and families served by the hospices.
o Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment of the strategy with organizational goals and values. o Using recent reviews Identify key areas of focus and measurable outcomes to guide the implementation and evaluation of the strategy. o Develop manageable processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness providing more time to undertake roles.
o Consider the use of external wellbeing centres to host therapeutic sessions, to provide choice in place of care and room capacity within the hospice buildings. o Develop and enhance the collection of impact assessment data and fully evaluate any change and transformation as part of the care quality and performance reporting Implementation and oversight: o Oversee the implementation of the wellbeing strategy across all three sites, ensuring consistency and effectiveness of initiatives.
o Provide guidance and support to staff members involved in delivering wellbeing programs and services. o Monitor and evaluate the impact of interventions, making adjustments as necessary to optimize outcomes. o Provide Line Management and ensure clinical supervision to Locality Wellbeing Team Leads o Responsible for identifying continuing professional development needs, ensuring access to educational resource.
o Ensure the required need for contracting with clients when commencing therapeutic sessions and manage teams capacity by evaluation of meeting attendance and caseload expectations. o To be responsible for overseeing implementation of a range of emotional/psychological/therapeutic interventions delivered by the wellbeing team practitioners for individuals, carers, families and groups o To evaluate and support wellbeing practitioners to make decisions about options for therapeutic interventions taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group o To ensure wellbeing team professionals provide advice, guidance and consultation (as appropriate to their training/profession), to other professionals and contribute directly to clinical formulation and multidisciplinary care plans for children and their families/carers.
o To ensure the wellbeing team practitioners contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group (health, education, social care and third sector organisations), with particular responsibility to consult to nursing colleagues in the hospice.
o To ensure that wellbeing team practitioners undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and make appropriate onward referrals to mental health services when necessary.
o To ensure that wellbeing practitioners practice within their competencies and maintain professional registration as appropriate. o To ensure appropriate systems for the clinical and professional supervision of qualified and unqualified members of the wellbeing teams.
Partnership development: o Establish partnerships with external organizations, community groups, and healthcare providers to enhance wellbeing support services. o Collaborate with local spiritual leaders and counsellors to integrate spiritual care into the overall wellbeing framework.
o Foster a network of support for families beyond the hospice setting, facilitating access to resources and expertise. Staff training and development: - o Develop training programs to equip staff members with the skills and knowledge necessary to support the wellbeing of children and families.
o Provide ongoing education and professional development opportunities related to wellbeing and spiritual care. Promoting a culture of wellbeing: o Cultivate a culture of wellbeing within the hospice environment, emphasizing the importance of self-care and resilience among staff members.
o Advocate for the integration of wellbeing principles into organizational policies and practices. o Oversee provision / provide staff support for ALL EACH employees Utilizing outputs from recent Wellbeing Review: o Review and analyse findings from recent wellbeing reviews to inform the development of the strategy and identify areas for improvement.
o Incorporate recommendations and insights from the review process into the ongoing enhancement of wellbeing initiatives. o Contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the wellbeing teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
o Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in the wellbeing service. o Contribute to the identification, management and reduction of risk in the area of responsibility. o Ensure day to day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience.
o Ensure monitoring of quality and compliance with standards is demonstrable within the service on an on-going basis o Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
o Comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. o Advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. o Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of therapies practiced by members of the wellbeing service (e.g. counsellors, art therapists, music therapists, health play specialists and chaplains) o Ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical supervision and support of all members of the wellbeing service.
o Provide a lead role in developing responsive clinical referral pathways.
The role will manage all wellbeing services via the Locality wellbeing leads on each site at Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge, based in one hospice but with a regular presence in all 3 Professionally qualified therapists will be supported to continue direct clinical work at EACH and maintain their registration Responsibilities Overall management of all wellbeing and spiritual care services at each including staff and budgets via the locality wellbeing leads and accountable Directly to the Director of care.
Work collaboratively with Head of Nursing, Head of Performance and delivery and the business development manager to be part of the each senior leadership team. Responsibility for developing a Wellbeing Strategy and Vision: o Lead the development of a wellbeing strategy and vision tailored to the unique needs of children and families served by the hospices.
o Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment of the strategy with organizational goals and values. o Using recent reviews Identify key areas of focus and measurable outcomes to guide the implementation and evaluation of the strategy. o Develop manageable processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness providing more time to undertake roles.
o Consider the use of external wellbeing centres to host therapeutic sessions, to provide choice in place of care and room capacity within the hospice buildings. o Develop and enhance the collection of impact assessment data and fully evaluate any change and transformation as part of the care quality and performance reporting Implementation and oversight: o Oversee the implementation of the wellbeing strategy across all three sites, ensuring consistency and effectiveness of initiatives.
o Provide guidance and support to staff members involved in delivering wellbeing programs and services. o Monitor and evaluate the impact of interventions, making adjustments as necessary to optimize outcomes. o Provide Line Management and ensure clinical supervision to Locality Wellbeing Team Leads o Responsible for identifying continuing professional development needs, ensuring access to educational resource.
o Ensure the required need for contracting with clients when commencing therapeutic sessions and manage teams capacity by evaluation of meeting attendance and caseload expectations. o To be responsible for overseeing implementation of a range of emotional/psychological/therapeutic interventions delivered by the wellbeing team practitioners for individuals, carers, families and groups o To evaluate and support wellbeing practitioners to make decisions about options for therapeutic interventions taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group o To ensure wellbeing team professionals provide advice, guidance and consultation (as appropriate to their training/profession), to other professionals and contribute directly to clinical formulation and multidisciplinary care plans for children and their families/carers.
o To ensure the wellbeing team practitioners contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group (health, education, social care and third sector organisations), with particular responsibility to consult to nursing colleagues in the hospice.
o To ensure that wellbeing team practitioners undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and make appropriate onward referrals to mental health services when necessary.
o To ensure that wellbeing practitioners practice within their competencies and maintain professional registration as appropriate. o To ensure appropriate systems for the clinical and professional supervision of qualified and unqualified members of the wellbeing teams.
Partnership development: o Establish partnerships with external organizations, community groups, and healthcare providers to enhance wellbeing support services. o Collaborate with local spiritual leaders and counsellors to integrate spiritual care into the overall wellbeing framework.
o Foster a network of support for families beyond the hospice setting, facilitating access to resources and expertise. Staff training and development: - o Develop training programs to equip staff members with the skills and knowledge necessary to support the wellbeing of children and families.
o Provide ongoing education and professional development opportunities related to wellbeing and spiritual care. Promoting a culture of wellbeing: o Cultivate a culture of wellbeing within the hospice environment, emphasizing the importance of self-care and resilience among staff members.
o Advocate for the integration of wellbeing principles into organizational policies and practices. o Oversee provision / provide staff support for ALL EACH employees Utilizing outputs from recent Wellbeing Review: o Review and analyse findings from recent wellbeing reviews to inform the development of the strategy and identify areas for improvement.
o Incorporate recommendations and insights from the review process into the ongoing enhancement of wellbeing initiatives. o Contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the wellbeing teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
o Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in the wellbeing service. o Contribute to the identification, management and reduction of risk in the area of responsibility. o Ensure day to day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety and patient experience.
o Ensure monitoring of quality and compliance with standards is demonstrable within the service on an on-going basis o Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
o Comply with the Professional Codes of Conduct and to be aware of changes in these. o Advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing. o Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of therapies practiced by members of the wellbeing service (e.g. counsellors, art therapists, music therapists, health play specialists and chaplains) o Ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical supervision and support of all members of the wellbeing service.
o Provide a lead role in developing responsive clinical referral pathways.
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