Palliative Care Specialist

**Palliative Care Specialist**:

- **Hawthorn East (with travel required to sites)**:

- **Permanent, Part-time (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)**

**What you do matters**
- Are you looking for a job that truly makes a difference in the lives of others? Join Benetas and be a part of our mission to help older Victorians live their best lives.
- We're looking for a **Palliative Care Specialist** to enhance services and outcomes for individuals receiving palliative care across Benetas, including Retirement Living, Residential Services, and Community Health and Care (CHC). This role involves collaboration across various operational units, working closely with the Quality, Risk & Safeguarding (QRS) and Learning and Development (L&D) teams.
- This will also develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to elevate the organisation's proficiency in palliative care. This is a permanent, part-time role working on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

**A typical day will have you**:

- Design and implement a Benetas Model of Palliative Care (BMPC) that improves Quality of Life outcomes
- Develop/update Policies and Procedures as they relate to Palliative and End-of-Life care and ensure they are effectively communicated to all employees
- Work closely with senior management team, Quality, Risk & Safeguarding, and L&D teams to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to elevate the organisation's proficiency in palliative care
- Ensure compliance to regulatory standards and conduct audits of palliative care
- Work with the Pastoral Care Team to develop a program, provide tools and evaluate the effectiveness of their input on the palliative and end of life experience
- Develop a brief and communication collaterals to implement Palliative Friendly environments in all Benetas Residential homes
- Work with CHC to develop palliative care specific packages for people requiring this support in their own homes and within Respite Centres
- Identify services and develop fee-for-service financial modelling for private clients
- Make recommendations for innovative palliative services and work with the Finance team to assess the financially sustainability of such services
- Build customer relationships with external agencies referring Palliative / end of life clients and residents to Benetas
- Travel is required to Benetas sites

**We're looking for someone with**:

- Registered Nurse or Allied Health Practitioner (essential)
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in the delivery of palliative care as a practitioner (essential)
- Tertiary qualifications in Palliative Care, or equivalent, with significant experience in Palliative Care (essential)
- Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner (highly desirable)
- Demonstrated senior clinical and management experience within aged care and palliative care services
- Experience in developing frameworks that lead to quality of life outcomes for people with life-limiting illnesses and nearing end of life
- Project management with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate success and impact of programs
- Experience with cultural change and change management

**Why work with us?**
- $74 hourly rate
- Permanent, part-time
- Not-for-profit salary packaging for $15,900 per year for general bills and expenses, plus an additional $2,500 for meals and entertainment - offering you more take home pay with less tax
- Novated leasing options in salary packaging
- A proven history of internal career progression and opportunities for you to move within Benetas so your story with us continues
- Paid training hours to build your skills

**Interested in applying**:
**What do we do? We care - in a big way**
- We make a difference - We have been caring for older Victorians for over 70 years, providing a safe and supportive services that cater for all.
- Benetas is a leading not-for-profit organisation dedicated to actively working with older Victorians, their friends and carers through a range of residential aged care, primary care and in-home services - all across Victoria. By working with our values in mind - Respect, Responsibility, Community, and Spirit, we are able to care for and celebrate every client and resident for being the incredible individual that they are. Not only do we celebrate our residents, but we celebrate each other.

**Have meaningful career with Benetas where the work that you do will really matter. Should you apply? It is a yes from us