Job summary

Woking and Sam Beare Hospice In Patient Unit is looking for caring, passionate and enthusiastic Health Care Assistants to join our amazing team.

At our hospice, we provide exceptional care to patients and their families through some of the most challenging times of their lives. We support our patients in our In Patient Unit, at home plus in our Wellbeing Centre. Our charity specialises in palliative and end of life care for patients with complex and life limiting illnesses who live in North-West Surrey.

We ensure high quality care with great staff to patient ratios, making sure everyone feels cared for and valued. Our warm, clean and homely environment helps patients and families using our services feel safe and comfortable.

We also invest in your growth. Our education team offers excellent training sessions and support staff development through courses and university programs.

Recent examples of our commitment to developing our team include:

NA to RN apprenticeships
HCA to NA apprenticeships,
CNS supported and developed to join our medical team as a Non-Medical Prescriber/ANP
Staff Nurse to Senior Staff Nurse
Senior Staff Nurse into Clinical Nurse Specialist positions in our community team.

Join us to make a real difference in people’s lives!

Main duties of the job

” A beautiful setting, warm friendly staff and colleagues, and the gratitude of the patient’s and their families fuel my energies to keep going with a challenging role. What we do is not easy but its very worthwhile”.Clinical Colleague

We are looking for caring, compassionate and enthusiastic individual with key qualities:

Caring and compassionate
Eager to learn and improve
Excellent communication skills
Positive, can-do attitude
Experience of palliative caring for patients in health or social care settings is desirable but not essential as we can offer support through our training and development programme

Additional Requirements:

Applicants must have a legal right to work in the UK.
Care Certificate or NVQ 3 (QCF Level 3 or equivalent) qualification or a willingness to work towards this.
Experience of working as part of a team
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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