Bank Healthcare Assistant

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care; Waterford; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

The Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care is seeking a Bank Healthcare Assistant to support patients at home in their final weeks of life. You will provide compassionate personal care, assist with daily activities, and collaborate with families and healthcare professionals to tailor care plans.

Shifts are flexible across a 7-day week, and you must have access to a car. Training will be provided; prior caring experience is helpful but not essential.

Qualifications

• Right to work in the UK.
• Full, current UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Enhanced DBS check.
• Good IT literacy including Microsoft Office and email.
• Experience in caring or home-based support preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide end of life care to patients in their own homes as per care plan.
• Demonstrate high standards of personal care and support under management.
• Work with families and health professionals to address physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs.
• Observe and report changes in patient condition to the team.
• Identify safeguarding risks and follow policy guidance.

Skills

Driving license

IT literacy

Caregiving

Tools

Microsoft Office

Email

Job description

Bank Healthcare Assistant

• Hours: bank
• Location: Rennie Grove Peace Geographical Area
• Salary: £13.21 per hour
• Closing date: 2 November at 12 noon
• Interview date: TBC

The role of Healthcare Assistant is in place to provide end of life care to patients in their own homes in the final weeks of life.

• We are looking for caring staff who could provide personal care to patients in their last weeks of life.
• If you think this is you then we can offer a variety of shift patterns to suit working across a 7 day week.
• You will be visiting patients living in your local area, who wish to be cared for in their own home.
• You will provide support with washing, dressing, nutrition, and skin care.
• During your visit you will spend time talking to patients and their relatives, using your skills to ascertain the best possible care for the individual.
• Visits are mainly provided by 2 carers, but there are times when you will visit alone, so you must have access to your own car.
• Experience is not essential as training will be given but ideally you will have had some experience of prior caring i.e. for a dying relative, childcare etc.

What you will do

• Demonstrate and maintain consistently high standards of individualised personal care and support under guidance of Management.
• Work alongside the patient's families and/or health care professionals, maintaining an approach that incorporates physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care in accordance with the Rennie Grove Peace philosophy.
• Observe and report changes in the patient's symptoms, conditions and circumstances to the management and notify other healthcare professionals as necessary.
• Work in accordance with the patient's agreed care plan.
• Responsible for identifying and acting on any risk of safeguarding to patients and their families in accordance with the Rennie Grove Peace policies.

What you will need

• All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• We do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
• Manual handling and/or heavy lifting.
• Full, current valid UK driving licence.
• Access to a vehicle which can be used for work purposes.
• Car insurance, including business cover
• Disclosure and Barring Services Check: Enhanced - child and adult
• A good level of IT literacy is required, including confidence in using Microsoft Office applications, email, and other digital systems relevant to the role

For an informal chat about this role contact Sharon Parkins, RPCS Manager on or Ursula Reeve, RPCS Manager on

Please click on the attached link for further information about Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care - https://renniegrovepeace.org/our-care-and-support/

Please click on the attached link for more information and a look into the work Healthcare Assistants do - https://renniegrovepeace.org/healthcare-assistant-careers/

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

Our commitment to Equality and Diversity

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.

If you are disabled and best meet the minimum requirements for the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.