Head of Supportive Care

The Head of Supportive Care provides senior leadership for the hospice’s multi-professional support and wellbeing services, including rehabilitation and enablement, psychological and family support, complementary therapies and therapeutic activities. The role ensures that people using hospice services, and those important to them, receive holistic, person-centred support that enables them to live as fully and independently as possible.

Working closely with the Director of Care, Heads of IPU, Hospice at Home and Care Navigation, the post-holder will lead the integration of therapy and wellbeing offers across all hospice settings, including on the Inpatient Unit, in the community and through group and virtual programmes. They will support managers and specialist staff to deliver safe, effective and evidence-based interventions, and to develop new offers in response to patient and community need.

The Head of Supportive Care will oversee day to day operations, workforce planning at a strategic level and service development across their portfolio. They will champion equity, inclusion and access, including for under-served communities, and will ensure that patient, family and carer voice informs how services are designed and delivered. The post holder will be an experienced HCPC registered therapy professional , with substantial rehabilitation and enablement expertise and a strong commitment to holistic, person-centred care.