Full Time
Cumbria
Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job role: Health Care Assistant

Company name: NHS Jobs

Salary: £12.16 to £13.69 per hour

Job Reference: B0378-24-0029

About the Job:

The Health Care Assistant is a key member of the care team that supports Registered Nurses and other health professionals in the delivery of high standards of palliative and supportive care for patients, families and loved ones. Night Sitter Health Care Assistants play a vital role in providing respite overnight for family carers. This is an awake service the Night Sitter will provide personal care overnight, including emotional, psychological and practical support for patients and their carer.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will predominantly work as a Night Sitter, but may occasionally be required to work across the In-Patient, Hospice at Home and Living Well Therapy Services, providing palliative and supportive care to patients living with advancing illness. The role involves care provision on a physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional level with patients and their families. As a Night Sitter, the Health Care Assistant will usually work on their own in the patients own, enabling the patient to be cared for and die at home, when this is their preferred place of care. Patients will have been assessed by a Registered Nurse prior to a Night Sit being allocated. This post is subject to unsocial working conditions i.e. 24 hour shift rota (day and night shifts, week days and weekends, bank holidays). It will include lone working as a Night Sitter or in delivering Day Respite Care in patients homes. The post holder will work according to the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers (Skills for Health/Skills for Care 2013), and hospice policies and procedures.

About us

St Marys Hospice provides care and comfort for patients living with any life shortening illness or long-term condition and their family. We support people from the moment of diagnosis and their families for longer.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Health Care Assistant

Night Sitter

Flexible hours 18 minimum a week

£12.16 – £13.69 based on qualifications

Are you kind, caring and compassionate?

For this Health Care Assistant Night Sitter position, we are looking for an experienced Health Care Assistant with a passion for providing a high level of personal care at end of life, delivered with kindness and expertise.

You will be mostly based in patients homes, providing respite care, to help family carers to get a good nights sleep.

You will provide personal care and support for the patient overnight, as well as emotional and psychological support for family carers.

The post-holder will need to hold a current driving license and will sometimes be required to work in other services such as the In-Patient Unit.

Join the hospice and make a real difference to patients and families at end of life.

You can bring your NHS Pension with you.

Closing Date 1st October 2024

Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

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Desirable

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This 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.

Employer details

Employer name

St. Mary’s Hospice

Address

Ulverston, Cumbria

LA12 7JP

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