Healthcare Assistant, Hospice at Home

Are you passionate about helping and supporting people spend their final days in the place they choose?

If you have significant experience caring for people at the end of life in the community, we would love you to bring your skills and compassion and join our team.

Make a difference when it matters most.
Would you like to make a meaningful difference to people at the end of life? We would love to welcome Health Care Assistants with significant care and community experience to our dedicated Hospice at Home team. This is an opportunity to bring your experience and compassion to a role supporting people and those close to them.

Main duties of the job

Join Saint Francis Hospice, a dynamic, forward-thinking organisation providing specialist palliative care across Havering, Brentwood, Barking & Dagenham and Redbridge. Our Hospice at Home team brings together nurses and Health Care Assistants to provide hands-on nursing care and support to individuals and their carers in their own homes. Together, we help people in their last few weeks of life remain at home to die.If you enjoy working as part of a team, communicate well and feel confident working independently without supervision, we would be delighted to hear from you. You will need a flexible approach, the ability to travel efficiently and effectively across the hospice catchment area, and the ability to obtain business-use insurance for your vehicle.

HOURS 37.5 hours per week full time.

A weekly rota with flexible shift pattern consisting of early, flexi and late shifts.

A willingness to do an occasional night shift if service requires.

Service runs 7 days a week. 365 days a year.

Early 0900-1700

Flexi 1000-1800

Late 1300-2100

Nights 2200-0700

Interested in joining us? We would welcome a conversation about these opportunities or the chance to arrange an informal visit.

We are a dynamic, forward thinking organisation delivering a full range of specialist palliative care services for individuals & their loved ones with palliative or end of life care needs. We achieved Outstanding in our CQC inspection & have reconfigured our services to meet the changing needs of our local community. We support 5 Clinical Commissioning Groups & have a robust governance structure in place. We provide ward clinical services within a modern, personal & friendly 18-bedded unit, as well as Specialist Community Crisis Support Service, Hospice at Home Service & Specialist Day Therapy Service. We also have the hospice Pepperell Education Centre that has an excellent reputation for delivering high quality education programmes and study days.

All communication regarding your application including invitations to interviews will be sent to the email address you have stated on your application form, if you could also provide a contact telephone number as well.

Saint Francis Hospice is a charity based in the UK. We will require all successful candidates to be able to provide documentary ID proof of their Right to Work in the UK. We are not a Licensed Sponsor, so are unable to provide sponsorship to support applicants applying from outside of the UK.