Wellbeing Practitioner – Part Time

We are seeking well-motivated and forward-thinking Wellbeing Practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team in Thanet.

The role of the Wellbeing Practitioner aims to deliver creative, flexible and dynamic psychosocial care and support for our patients and carers. Offering group, 1-2-1 and virtual wellbeing interventions focusing on enabling quality of life, physical and psychological wellbeing and developing resilience.

You will be empowering patients to pursue their own wellbeing goals guiding them on a pathway through our social, supportive, therapeutic, creative and educational programmes. In addition to encouraging peer support networks and signposting to external community based support groups.

About the role:

This role is part time, 30 hours per week at our Thanet Hospice site. Working patterns will be 4 days  per week 8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm. Pay between £20,608 – £21,980.80 per annum depending on experience.

Key duties include:

• Undertake person centred holistic assessment in consultation with patients, carers and families identifying symptoms and needs and prescribe appropriate services to enable and empower individuals and enhance psychological, social and spiritual wellbeing.
• Engage with and contribute positively to Wellbeing Programmes; facilitating and delivering evidence based group interventions, one to one interventions and activities to improve health and wellbeing.
• Promote the benefits of Wellbeing Programmes to all hospice patients and their families, and encourage referrals from the Multidisciplinary Team and external health and social care colleagues. To engage with patients on the inpatient unit and support with patient centred wellbeing interventions.
• To support the service by undertaking administrative duties where required.
• Engage with and contribute positively to Multidisciplinary Team meetings and decision making, sharing appropriate information to benefit patient outcomes ensuring individual goals are achieved and alerting the Multidisciplinary Team of any concerns of crisis or problems arising with a patient or family member.
• Recognise and report any changes in psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients and provide appropriate level of psychological support within level of competency, referring to Multidisciplinary Team where required.

About us

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Vision

“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.

To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes

Other benefits

As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.

Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.

Our hospices offer:

• Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
• Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
• A sense of wellbeing
• A good work-life balance
• Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links
• NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free hospice parking

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.

If you would like to contribute to providing high quality patient care and support to those at the end of their life, please click the link below and apply now. 

For more information please find below the job description and job pack.