COMPASS ACP Palliative care

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The objective of the COMPASS service is to enhance the Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) workforce to improve early identification of patients in their last year of life at the point of admission, reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, and shorten the length of stay for GSF (Gold Standards Framework) patients. This role will also provide support in the community through the Single Point of Access (SPoA), including care homes and patients receiving Hospital at Home (H@H) services as required, with the opportunity to work alongside Health & Care Trust teams. The intention is to leverage Specialist Palliative Care expertise to benefit generalist patients, while ensuring that patients requiring specialist level care continue to be supported within existing commissioned SPC services.

Key components include Integration with the Hospital at Home model and other community pathways to enable step-up and step-down care development.

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

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