Health Care Assistant (Choose Home)

Integrated Care System; Sydenham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Sydenham seeks compassionate Health Care Assistants to support patients at home. Candidates must have an NVQ in Health and Social Care and experience in a care role. This position offers valuable training, pension benefits, and a positive work environment focused on holistic patient care.

Benefits

Access to training and development opportunities

Staff health and wellbeing schemes

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance scheme

Free off-street parking

Onsite staff canteen

Qualifications

• Recent experience of working as a Health Care Assistant or Senior Care Worker.
• Confident working independently and as part of a team.
• Strong ability to build relationships across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide community-based personal care as part of a short-term emergency service.
• Work creatively at points of care crisis.
• Support patients and families with emotional and practical needs.

Skills

Compassionate

Flexible

Reliable

Teamwork

Education

NVQ L2/3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent

Job description

We can offer a stimulating and rewarding career, with an opportunity to make real differences to the lives and experiences of people living with life-limiting and terminal illnesses.

Main duties of the job

We can offer a stimulating and rewarding career, with an opportunity to make real differences to the lives and experiences of people living with life-limiting and terminal illnesses.

About us

St Christophers, in our experience, is an extraordinary place to work.

Our aim at St Christophers is to deliver care and support that is of the highest quality to our patients, their families and carers and anyone else who looks to us for help. We know that people working across our organisation will only be able to provide this if they in turn, feel supported in their endeavours.

Job responsibilities

About Us:

St Christophers Hospice was founded in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders, and formed part of the modern hospice movement. Proudly celebrating over 50 years and with a turnover of over £20 million, we provide invaluable care and support to over 6,000 people across the five London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.

Your new role:

Joining our team means becoming part of a compassionate and supportive service, dedicated to delivering high-quality care. Gaining valuable experience and working as part of a wider multidisciplinary workforce, enriching your skills in holistic palliative and end-of-life care and with training opportunities which nurture and value your contributions.

We can offer a stimulating and rewarding career, with an opportunity to make real differences to the lives and experiences of people living with life-limiting and terminal illnesses. You will be able to support patients and families with both their emotional and practical needs, within the comfort of their own homes.

We are looking for an emotionally and physically resilient individual, to join our small Choose Home Team - Supporting those whom wish to remain at home (across five London Boroughs), at end of life.

This involves providing community-based personal care as part of a short-term emergency bridging service, until FastTrack (or alternative) arrangements are sought. This can also include visiting people at points of care crisis, with no equipment or microenvironment yet in place - working creatively, to remain solution-focussed. Choose Home also provides a variety of ad-hoc interventions, including: Occasional last offices, skill-sharing for families/other care staff and transitional support following recent discharges from the hospice inpatient unit and local hospitals.

To succeed in the role:

The successful candidate(s) will be compassionate, flexible, reliable and motivated in providing a high-quality care service toward our local communities. As well as having: A good level of education- Including NVQ L2/3 in Health and Social care, or equivalent- And recent experience of working a HCA role (EG. Providing personal care) within a Health and Social Care environment, or similar.

You will be confident working both independently and as a team, including the ability to establish good working relationships across the broader organisation.

In addition, you will benefit from access to some excellent training and development opportunities, a number of staff health and wellbeing schemes, a competitive contributory pension scheme and Life Assurance scheme with generous beneficiary plan. You will also have access to free off-street parking nearby, and an onsite staff canteen.

Please Note: Candidate(s) must hold a full UK driving license- Please see our full person spec.

Please have a look at our website for further information on all aspects of St Christophers atwww.stchristophers.org.uk and to apply for this position, please click the Apply Online button below

Closing Date: 8th August 2025

In the event we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the job earlier than the initial closing date.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Palliative Care Qualification

Experience

• Good level of recent experience of working as a Health Care Assistant or a Senior Care Worker in a health and social care environment
• Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team

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.