Bank Senior Healthcare Assistant (Nights) - In-Patient Unit

Are you an experienced and compassionate Healthcare Assistant looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference? We are looking for Bank Senior Healthcare Assistants to join our In-Patient Unit team, working night shifts from 8:15pm to 7:45am. Working alongside our Registered Nurses, you will support the delivery of high-quality palliative and end of life care, whilst taking on additional responsibilities to help ensure safe, effective and compassionate care for patients and their loved ones. As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you'll play a key role in the team, providing both personal and clinical care, supporting colleagues and contributing to the delivery of exceptional patient-centred care. This role can be emotionally demanding at times, but you'll be supported by a caring, experienced and dedicated multidisciplinary team.,

• Deliver compassionate, person-centred palliative and end of life care.
• Support patients and their loved ones emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
• Work with Registered Nurses to plan and deliver personalised care.
• Monitor patients' wellbeing and respond appropriately to changing needs.
• Undertake enhanced clinical duties as part of the Senior Healthcare Assistant role.
• Support families through difficult and emotional times, including bereavement.
• Promote dignity, independence and choice for every patient.
• Work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team to provide outstanding care.
  
  You will:
• Right to Work in the UK.
• Have previous experience working as a Healthcare Assistant, ideally within palliative care.
• Hold an NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent qualification), or be able to demonstrate at least one year's experience working as a Senior Healthcare Assistant within the health care / hospice sector.
• Be caring, compassionate and emotionally resilient.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  
  We are an independent local charity based in Bosham, Chichester, offering a wide range of services to support our patients and their loved ones, who are living with a life-limiting or terminal illness. The work we do makes a real difference to the lives of local people, and we support over 330 patients at any one time across our services, including our 14-bed In-Patient Unit (IPU).
  
  Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - Access to free and confidential Virtual GP Advice, Counselling and Legal Support
• Continuation of existing NHS Pension Scheme Membership And recognition of reckonable service for certain benefits
• Generous Pension With 7.5% employer contribution for employees not in the NHS pension scheme
• Employee discount - In all our community charity shops and eligibility for the Blue Light Card discount scheme
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at St Wilfrid's, £13.48 to £14.52 an hour (plus enhancements for unsocial and weekend hours)