Head of Hospice at Home
| Posting date: | 27 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £52,636.50 to £64,333.50 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £52636.50 - £64333.50 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 April 2026 |
| Location: | Rotherham, S60 2SW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0109-26-0003 |
Summary
Clinical and operational leadership of Hospice at Home: Provide leadership and oversight for the Hospice at Home team, ensuring safe, person centred and holistic care in patients homes. Support the team to work confidently in community settings, often as lone workers, with clear escalation and support arrangements. Ensure effective multidisciplinary working across nursing, Health Care Support Workers, medical staff, therapists and other professionals. Quality, safety and clinical governance: Work with the Director of Care and the Clinical Governance & Audit Facilitator to ensure robust clinical governance for Hospice at Home, including risk management, incident reporting, audit and learning. Ensure that staff follow policies and procedures for safe community practice, including lone working, safeguarding, infection prevention and control and medicines management. Lead and participate in service audits, evaluations and improvement projects focused on community-based palliative care. Referrals, caseload and care coordination: Work closely with Care Navigation to ensure timely and equitable access to Hospice at Home, including triage, prioritisation and review of caseload. Oversee caseload management and allocation of visits at a strategic level, ensuring that patients with the greatest need receive appropriate support. Promote effective communication and coordinated care between Hospice at Home, IPU, primary care, community nursing, hospital teams and other partners. Workforce, rota oversight and staff development: Line manage the Hospice at Home Nurse Manager, Health Care Support Worker Manager, Community Clinical Practice Lead and, providing supervision support and challenge. Hold overall responsibility for ensuring safe staffing levels and skill mix across the Hospice at Home service, including agreeing rota principles, shift patterns and escalation processes. Oversee the maintenance and administration of rotas, visit schedules and staffing records, escalating issues to the Head of Hospice at Home Care where required. Support staff development and education, ensuring access to appropriate training, supervision and reflective practice. Community relationships and system working: Build strong relationships with GPs, community nursing, hospital teams, ambulance services and social care to support shared patients. Represent Hospice at Home in internal and external meetings as required, contributing community expertise to wider hospice and system discussions. Work with partners to develop and implement innovative models of community based palliative care and support. Performance, evaluation and development: Agree and monitor key performance indicators for Hospice at Home, including activity, responsiveness, outcomes and experience. Use data and feedback to identify trends, gaps and opportunities, and implement improvements. Contribute to business cases, service proposals and reports relating to Hospice at Home and community services.