Health Care Assistant Community

The Methodist Church in Britain; St Leonards; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

The Methodist Church in Britain is recruiting a Health Care Assistant to join the hospice community team that serves Hastings and Rother. The role focuses on home visits and telephone advice for patients and families, including support with loss, grief and dying.

Join the Specialist Palliative Care Telephone Support Line and work alongside clinicians to provide compassionate, patient-centred care at the end of life, in hospice or community settings. Transferable experience is welcome.

Qualifications

• Transferable skills are welcome; palliative care experience is useful but not required.
• Ability to communicate compassionately with patients, families and carers.

Responsibilities

• Work as a key member of the interdisciplinary team to meet the holistic needs of patients, families and carers.
• Support patients to fulfil their personal priorities and goals.
• Provide compassionate palliative care to patients at the end of life and those close to them, in the hospice or community.
• Make home visits to patients and families.
• Give telephone advice and support.

Skills

Excellent communication

Sound judgment

Patient-centered care

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Job description

This Health Care Assistant post sits in the community team at St Michael's Hospice, which supports people in Hastings and Rother. The work centres on home visits and telephone advice for patients and families, including support with loss, grief and dying. The post also covers the Specialist Palliative Care Telephone Support Line and works alongside other clinicians. Palliative care experience is welcome but not required, so transferable experience can be enough to apply.

What the job involves

• Work as a key member of the interdisciplinary team to meet the holistic needs of patients, families and carers
• Support patients to fulfil their personal priorities and goals
• Work on the Specialist Palliative Care Telephone Support Line
• Provide compassionate, dignified palliative care to patients at the end of life and those close to them, in the hospice or community
• Make home visits to patients and families
• Give telephone advice and support
• Support people openly and honestly with sensitive topics including loss, grief and dying
• Build natural, trusted rapport with patients and families

What's required

Experience

• Transferable skills and experience

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent communication skills
• Sound judgement
• Commitment to patient-centred interdisciplinary team working
• Passion for palliative care

Nice to have

• Palliative care experience