Community Healthcare Assistant

Job description

Job responsibilities

About us: St Wilfrids Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an outstanding provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.

We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework.

We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues.

The Role:

Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrids Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment.

The role will work as part of a multi-professional team providing palliative nursing care interventions for patients and their families in the community. Responsible for the observation of patients and the provision of care in accordance with the management plans under the supervision of a Team Leader, Registered Paramedic/Nurse or Clinical Nurse Specialist for patients in their homes.

Benefits included:

• We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Employee assistance programmes
• Additional training opportunities
• Supportive working environment
• We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including; various shift patterns and part time hours.

If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources team on01323 434209or emailrecruitment@stwhospice.org

If you would like to discuss the role in further detail please contact Helen Davidson, Head of Community Nursingon 07841 043023.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability.

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

St Wilfrid's Hospice

Address

Eastbourne

BN22 9PZ

Employer's website

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