Job summary
As a Healthcare Assistant with the Marie Curie team based in Harrogate and the North Yorkshire Dales, you'll be supporting patients and families in their time of greatest need. We provide free specialist palliative care and support to patients with life limiting illness whilst offering vital emotional support for their families.
Main duties of the job
As a Healthcare Assistant with the Marie Curie team based in Harrogate and the North Yorkshire Dales, you'll be supporting patients and families in their time of greatest need. We provide free specialist palliative care and support to patients with life limiting illness whilst offering vital emotional support for their families.
About us
Marie Curie is the UK's leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness they're likely to die from.
The care and support we provide is highly valued by the people we care for and their loved ones, but at present we are only reaching around 10% of dying people at the end of life. Right now, one in four people in the UK with a terminal illness, do not get the care or support they deserve at the end of their lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
With experience of End of Life care, you're ready and able to make a real difference. Ours is a one-to-one approach to care, so you're sure to enjoy plenty of meaningful contact with patients and their families - usually in their own homes. Working without close supervision, you'll have the opportunity to use your own initiative in line with the patient's established care plan. You'll be required to carry out a range of care duties including helping patients meet their hygiene needs, monitoring symptoms, assisting with medications and keeping detailed records and emotional support to the patient and their families.
Job description
Job responsibilities
With experience of End of Life care, you're ready and able to make a real difference. Ours is a one-to-one approach to care, so you're sure to enjoy plenty of meaningful contact with patients and their families - usually in their own homes. Working without close supervision, you'll have the opportunity to use your own initiative in line with the patient's established care plan. You'll be required to carry out a range of care duties including helping patients meet their hygiene needs, monitoring symptoms, assisting with medications and keeping detailed records and emotional support to the patient and their families.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 2 in Health and Social Care OR an equivalent alternative Level 2 Qualification i.e. NCFE level 2 Certificate in Healthcare Support Services, BTEC level 2 Health and Social Care.
- Functional skills at level 2 in numeracy and literacy or equivalent
Desirable
- National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 3 in Health and Social
- Care OR an acceptable, alternative Level 3 Qualification
- Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
Experience
Essential
- 6 Months care delivery experience (current) in a Health or Social Care Environment.
Desirable
- Recent professional experience of providing care and caring for dying patients.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 2 in Health and Social Care OR an equivalent alternative Level 2 Qualification i.e. NCFE level 2 Certificate in Healthcare Support Services, BTEC level 2 Health and Social Care.
- Functional skills at level 2 in numeracy and literacy or equivalent
Desirable
- National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 3 in Health and Social
- Care OR an acceptable, alternative Level 3 Qualification
- Basic Food Hygiene Certificate
Experience
Essential
- 6 Months care delivery experience (current) in a Health or Social Care Environment.
Desirable
- Recent professional experience of providing care and caring for dying patients.
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.
