We require the services of a Palliative Care Manager (Psycho-social) to provide clinical programme leadership to the Palliative Care Services Team.
ENTRY LEVEL QUALIFICATION, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Post graduate qualification in Social Work.
Training in Palliative Care will be advantageous.
A minimum of 2 years' experience in a health/social work management environment.
Experience in managing and supervising teams.
Recognised social work supervision training will be advantageous.
Registration with a recognized professional body: SACSSP.
Fluency in two of the official languages of the Western Cape will be advantageous.
Proven team leadership capabilities.
Proven advanced administrative ability.
Advanced computer literacy with experience in MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook).
Ability to work independently and be a self-starter.
Unendorsed driver's license.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
Provide leadership ensuring that professional and clinical standards are maintained.
Manage all activities required to drive the achievement of goals within Palliative Care Services.
Meet Palliative Care Services reporting requirements; coordinating and consolidating all programme reports for sharing with key stakeholder audiences.
Provide oversight to patient record systems ensuring records are accurate and up to date at all times, and stored securely.
Work collaboratively with the entire Palliative Care Services team through active participation in departmental budget processes.
Provide oversight towards the execution of departmental administrative activities.
Identify gaps in staff competencies within the Palliative Care Services and facilitate acquisition of the requisite knowledge and skills upgrades across the department.
Oversight of Psychosocial community group programme across communities.
Facilitate people development.
Manage staff performance and adherence to policies and procedures within codes of conduct.
Perform ad-hoc and other tasks as requested by HOD: Palliative Care Services and relief as and when required in the event of staff shortages.
Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES
Organisational awareness.
Resilience and stress management.
Interpersonal sensitivity.
Relationship building/partnering.
Excellence orientation.
Action orientation.
Planning and organising.
Judgement and decision making.
Monitoring.
Teamwork.
Engaging diversity.
Developing people.
SCREENING PROCEDURE
A letter of motivation for the application and a fully completed application form.
A detailed Curriculum Vitae (with dates and reasons for leaving, citing your most recent remuneration and expected Income).
Portfolio of evidence demonstrating competencies and experience.
Proficiency assessments to assess competence in areas required, inclusive of a panel interview.
CLOSING DATE: COB Wednesday the 18th of September 2024. All applications received within the time frames will be considered.
Applicants, who do not receive a response on their application within 5 working days of the closing date of the advertisement, are to accede that the application was not successful. Please forward your application to ******, citing the staff notice reference number in the top left corner.
Note:
St Luke's Combined Hospices reserves the right not to make an appointment to this position.
St Luke's Combined Hospices is guided by the principles of Employment Equity.
On behalf of Management, we wish you well in your application and future endeavours!
Job Type: Full-time
Application Deadline: 2024/09/18
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