Job overview

North London Hospice, a registered charity, has been the leading provider of end-of-life care in North London since 1984, providing specialist care to patients at home, in the community and on our Inpatient Unit in Finchley. Our mission is to help our patient’s live life to the full despite their illness.

Having provided incredible palliative and end of life care to patients for nearly four decades, we pride ourselves on the dedication and quality that we can bring to any situation. We’re passionate, caring, focused, and committed to empowering patients with life limiting illnesses, supporting them to achieve the best quality of life possible at one of the most important moments of their lives.

Main duties of the job

The Patient and Family Support Team provide psychosocial care to patients, families, and their carers pre & post bereavement.

The PAFs team act as advocates for people with advanced life limiting illness and their family / carers, aiming to enable individuals to make informed choices to manage their health, wellbeing, and lives independently for as long as possible.

This role will require you to work as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and provide a specialist palliative social work service to patients, their families and carers.

You will work with emotional and relationship complexity, acting as an advisor to other members of the MDT on social care issues.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A degree in Social Work or equivalent qualification
• Registered with Social Work England
• Proven experience of assessing/planning person-centre interventions 
• Proven experience of working with adults at risk/ adult safeguarding
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of supporting people through issues of loss
• Knowledge of current legislation and social policy relevant to role

Working for our organisation

North London Hospice is home to many diverse departments which include Nursing, Medical, Clinical, Cleaning & Catering, Patient and Family Support, Health and Wellbeing, Marketing and Communications, IT, Finance, Community, Volunteering, and our People department. 

As well as our inpatient unit at North Finchley, we work within the wider community, including our Outpatient and Wellbeing services; our support to patients in their own homes; our Community Specialist Palliative Care services; and our Patient and Family Support teams, providing emotional and practical support to patients, their families, and carers.

As an organisation, we are committed to offering a healthy work/life balance, with accessible mental health support, an extensive range of lifestyle and health benefits and excellent training and development opportunities, and hence, we offer the following range of competitive benefits:

• Competitive rates of pay 
• Generous annual leave
• Transfer of NHS pension scheme
• Pension - Employer contribution pension scheme
• Access to clinical supervision
• Fully funded Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance cover
• Flexible/Hybrid Working 
• A range of opportunities for professional learning and development
• Access to our 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Travel incentives
• Family friendly and special leave
• A supportive and collaborative work environment
• Blue Light Scheme membership and carers’ discounts
• Social events throughout the year and much more…