Healthcare Assistant (Twilight Hours Bank)

Job summary

Job Title: Healthcare Assistant Flexibank

Reporting To: Head of IPU

Accountable to: Patient Services Director

Responsible for: Participating as one of the multi-professional specialist palliative care team in the provision of a co-ordinated and comprehensive palliative care service to patients and their families.

Hours: Twilight hours - 18:30 - Midnight across the week and weekends

Location: Aylesford Kent

Salary: £13.10 per hour

Main duties of the job

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join the Inpatient Unit team as a Healthcare Assistant on a Flexi Bank contract covering the twilight hours between 1830 and midnight. You will support the work of the Inpatient Unit providing a comprehensive palliative care service to patients and their families. Proven experience at this level preferred. Successful applicants will be expected to work twilight hours across the week and weekends.

Main Responsibilities include-

Participate and prioritise the daily nursing care provision of the highest possible standard of physical- psychological- social and spiritual care for patients and their relatives.

Assist in ensuring patients are nursed in a safe- friendly- clean- comfortable and welcoming environment- which promotes adequate rest and sleep.

Assist in the meeting of patient's nutritional needs

Assist with and encourage the use of divisional and leisure activities eg day therapy - complementary therapies - occupational therapies and physiotherapy.

Undertake routine interventions as delegated by a registered nurse including routine urine collection and testing - simple dressings - stoma care - testing and recording of blood sugars - taking and recording temperatures - pulse - respiration and blood pressure - supervise patients taking oral drugs and administer inhalers - nebulisers and creams under the direct supervision of a registered nurse.

About us

At Heart of Kent Hospice, we believe that everyone deserves compassionate, expert care when there is no cure for their illness and when they have a limited time left to live.

We are a charity and we dont charge a penny for our care. We depend on the compassion and kindness of you, the people of this community, to power our services and ensure that everyone gets the help they need.

We provide specialist care and support to adults who have a terminal illness as well as their families, friends and carers. We help people to live as fully and as well as possible for the rest of their lives and ensure that their final days are comfortable and peaceful,wherever they choose to be. We treat every individual as the unique and special person that they are. Everything we do is tailored and personalised.

Our vision is that everyone living with a terminal illness in our community will have the best quality of life. Our purpose is to enable people with a terminal illness in our community to live with comfort, independence and dignity to the end of their lives, and to support those closest to them. All our care is underpinned by our core values of compassion, integrity, respect and teamwork. These values guide our decision-making and how we conduct ourselves in our work and every one of our colleagues plays an important part in enabling us to give our patients and their families the best possible care.

Employer details

Employer name

HEART OF KENT HOSPICE

Address

Preston Hall

Aylesford

Kent

ME20 7PU

Employer's website

https://www.hokh.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

HEART OF KENT HOSPICE

Address

Preston Hall

Aylesford

Kent

ME20 7PU

Employer's website

https://www.hokh.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

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