Role:     Palliative Care Co-Ordinator  (Fixed term 12 months)

Hours:  30 hrs per week to be worked over 7 days  

Salary:  Band 3 

Location: Compton, Wolverhampton

Great Teams, common purpose and competitive salary and benefits packages.

At Compton Care, we believe life with a complex and incurable condition doesn’t have to be limiting. We believe people are more than their diagnosis, and we are passionate about helping people and their families live their best life possible.

Our workforce is critically important to this mission,

We are looking for a Palliative Care Co-Ordinator

Can you, once trained, provide advice and support for patients and their families or carers? Our care co-ordinators will help patients navigate health and social care services and signpost to partner and voluntary organisations.

We are looking for someone to:

• Work out of our care co-ordination centre, manning and triaging phone calls and web enquires
• Act as a single point of access for healthcare professional and patients and families.
• To signpost and provide information on services as required

Do you have the following skills, qualifications, and attributes?

• English and Maths GCSE or equivalent level
• European Computer Driving Licence or equivalent IT skills and Microsoft Office experience
• Previous telephone and customer service experience
• To place the patient at the heart of all actions
• The ability to work alone and within a team
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• As real passion and commitment to proving high quality palliative and end of life care
• An understanding of the principles of Safeguarding
• The ability to share and receive learning with and from colleagues
• The ability to recognise and report risk

If so, we would very much like to hear from you around this exciting permanent role, we are offering a generous and competitive salary package of:

• Excellent competitive salary
• Excellent benefits including generous annual leave, life assurance, contributory pension scheme, employee assistance programme, free car parking in our beautiful surrounds and gardens
• Career progression and development opportunities and training.
• Location : Compton - Wolverhampton

About our recruitment process:

Please note that we reserve the right to close a vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. It is also subject to satisfactory references and occupational health clearance.