Senior Health Care Assistant - Hospice at Home

Job summary

Are you passionate about palliative and end of life care?

Do you have experience of working with patients in the community or senior health care experience?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Hospice at Home team (H@H). Working alongside the multidisciplinary team the H@H team provide high quality palliative and end of life care to patients wishing to remain in their own home.

We are inviting applications from candidates with a passion for palliative care and end of life care, looking for career development in this area. Candidates will need to work flexibly within the H@H service providing social, emotional, psychological and wider well-being care to our patients and their families.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description and person specification.

Applicants must have a full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk