Palliative Care Social Worker

• Support any children or young people within the family with the emotional implications of a loved ones diagnosis and subsequent death.
• Support Hospice patients, families and carers in making decisions about their future needs as they adjust to a new and changing situation, and offer appropriate interventions. This includes work with Hospice patients, families and carers coming to terms with the illness and possible death of someone close.
• To work in collaboration to deliver sustained improvements in performance, quality and consistency of practice across the team. Thereby achieving the best outcomes possible.
• To develop innovative ways of working to ensure positive outcomes for those receiving the service
• To represent and promote the service in relevant multi agency meetings;
• To ensure effective partnership working and engagement to achieve and deliver these objectives
• To engage in the strategic development of the Team and Service

DIRECT WORK
• Assess the needs of the bereaved, and provide bereavement support to individuals, families, children/young people and groups as appropriate.
• Complete a holistic assessment of need, and formulate a plan to address those needs, in collaboration with Hospice patients, families, carers, and other service providers.
• To formulate, design and deliver expert evidence-based interventions
• To build a professional relationship with service users and their families and to use that relationship to safeguard and promote positive outcomes
• To communicate effectively with service users and their families, ensuring that their views and wishes are heard and recorded accurately, and plans reflects their views
• To establish rapport and build a respectful, honest and trusted relationship with service users and their families, in order to identify and reduce risk in line with safeguarding procedures
• To understand and respect the rights of service users
• To support the completion of good quality assessments and the analysis of risk through the use of best practice guidance
• Facilitation of group work relevant to the service provision and identified need.
• Maintain accurate and appropriate records, including the computerised database, and provide reports and statistics as required.