Healthcare Assistant Inpatient Unit Nights - St Wilfrid's Hospice, 1 Broadwater Way

Healthcare Assistant Inpatient Unit Nights - St Wilfrid's Hospice, 1 Broadwater Way

Date: 2026-09-24T00:00:00

Location: Palehouse Common, East Sussex, GB, TN22 5

Application Deadline: 2026-10-26T05:00:37.73

About us

St Wilfrids Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an outstanding provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community. We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful. These values are embedded in our culture.

We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework. We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues.

The Role

Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrids Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment. We are looking for a part-time Healthcare Assistant Nights for 21 hours (two night shifts) a week.

The post-holder would be working within a team of Registered Nurses and Healthcare Assistants alongside the MDT to deliver safe and effective care to the patients and their families whilst under the care of the IPU. Night shifts are 8:30 pm - 8:00 am with a 1-hour unpaid break. Flexibility is required as we are unable to offer set nights.

Benefits included

• We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays


• Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership


• Discounted cinema tickets


• Employee assistance programmes


• Additional training opportunities


• Supportive working environment

We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including various shift patterns and part-time hours.

10% discount in the Street Cafe.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding your application, please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources team or email. If you would like to discuss the role in further detail, please contact Nikki Wilson, Head of Inpatient Unit, on.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disability. Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

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experienced mental health issues. The Role: Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrids Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment. We are looking for a part-time Healthcare Assistant Nights for 21hours (two night shifts) a week. The post-holder would be working within a team ofRegistered Nurses and Healthcare Assistants alongside the MDT to deliver safe and effective care to the patients and their families whilst under the care of the IPU. Night shifts are 8:30pm - 8am with a 1-hour unpaid break. Flexibility is required as we are unable to offer set nights. Benefits included: We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership Discounted cinema tickets Employee assistance programmes Additional training opportunities Supportive working environment We