Healthcare Assistant Community Team

To provide quality, holistic care to palliative and end of life patients in their own home as well as supporting their family and carers. Our service offers support 7 days a week, 365 days a year to enable patients to remain in their own home if this is their preference. The role is integrated into St Giles community services provision., This role requires the post holder to have a flexible approach to ensure the holistic needs of the patient and their carers` are met. The support that you would be required to provide includes personal care visits, clinical interventions and observations as well as emotional support for our patients and their carers `and respite sits.

The Community Health Care assistant is expected to undertake care to meet the needs of the patients under the supervision and delegation of an appropriate Registered Health Care Professional, working within the Hospices policies and procedures.

The post holder will usually work in the community but will be required to support delivery of care on our in-patient unit dependent on team pressures at our Whittington site or other hospice locations.

The post holder will hold a Level 3 Health and Social Care Qualification (NVQ, Apprenticeship, Diploma).

St Giles Hospice is a registered charity founded in 1983 by the Reverend Paul Brothwell, originally to improve the care of local people dying with cancer.

We now support patients, and their loved ones, living with a terminal illness. Our dedicated team provides individually-tailored care, free of charge, either at the hospice or in patients own homes across our communities.

We spend close to £10 million a year providing our specialist services. With just 18% of this funded by the Government, we rely heavily on donations and income generation from the local community.