Senior Healthcare Assista...
St John's Hospice, Primrose, Lancaster
- Part time
- Permanent
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Senior Healthcare Assistant (Nights)
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St John's Hospice, Primrose, Lancaster
- Onsite working
- Part time
- Permanent
Posted 3 days ago, 12 Jul
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Full Job Description
As a Healthcare Assistant, working to the standards set out in the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers, you will provide overnight support for patients, with life limiting conditions, in their own homes giving vital overnight respite for carers across the North Lancashire and South Lakes locality. The Night Sitting Service enables patients to remain in their own homes towards the end of life. Key role information >>
- This role is for either 19 hours (2 nights) per week or 28.5 hours (3 nights), the pay advertised is based on 28.5 hours per week.
- Hours include being in the patients home from 9.45pm - 6.45am (9 hours), plus 15 mins travel time and 15 mins reading time (to be completed before arriving at the patients home). This is a waking night-sit.
- You will also receive a £15 night allowance for each night worked & mileage expenses
- Hospice at Home serves the whole of North Lancashire, South Lakeland, Cumbria and includes parts of North Yorkshire, and visits may be anywhere in this catchment area. It is essential you hold a full UK driving license and have access to a vehicle during working hours.
We are looking for a Senior Healthcare Assistant who is compassionate and driven to make a difference to patients and their loved ones at a difficult time in their lives. This is a truly unique role.
The Hospice night-sitting service is a special part of the care we provide, and our team of experienced and dedicated Senior Healthcare Assistants provide respite care for patients and their carers within the patients own home through the night. Many people choose to spend their last weeks or days at home, and our Community team are there to support this wish where possible. Rachel is one our Night Sitters, and here's what she has to say about her role and why its important to her >> "I feel very privileged to be a part of someone's last moments of their life, giving the care and dignity they deserve. As Senior Healthcare Assistants, we aim to make a difference to the last weeks, days and hours of a patients life but also to the patients relatives offering them the chance to rest and build up the emotional energy they need for what is ahead of them, also offering reassurance, sympathy and understanding." If you are looking to take on a role where every day you can see the difference you have made to peoples lives, come and join us., St John's Hospice is a well established and respected local charity, and we offer free palliative care to patients with life shortening conditions both in our inpatient unit and through our Community Services (Hospice at Home). The majority of the people who St Johns cares for are looked after in their own home, in the community. Many people choose to spend their last weeks or days at home, and our community team are there to support them. The Community team is made up of Clinical Nurse Specialists, who are experts in pain and symptom management and advance care planning; the Hospice at Home team who support patients and their families in the last few weeks of life and the Respite team who provide day respite and night sits for the family who are caring for their loved ones at home in those last few weeks. Our Hospice at Home service is led by an experienced and supportive Management Team. Our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and you would play a key role in a person's wish to stay, and be cared for in their own home, providing crucial respite care for them and their loved ones. With close working relationships with the Inpatient Unit, CNS team, MDT and the area's District Nurses, the Hospice at Home team is a valued and well respected service in the local community. St John's Hospice is rated as CQC Good.
£20,836.92 to £21,474.18 a year NHS Pension subject to eligibility. Plus £15 per night worked