Healthcare Assistant

St Joseph’s Hospice; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 22.000 - 26.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

27 days holiday + public holidays

Subsidised cafe

Season ticket loans

NHS Pension

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Descripción de la vacante

St Joseph’s Hospice in London is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join our inpatient team. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering care to patients and their families on one of our wards and learning from colleagues with palliative care expertise.

The role offers opportunities to grow through education and reflects our Catholic heritage, with a commitment to compassionate, high-quality end-of-life care across East and North London.

Formación

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work well within a team.
• Ability to care for people approaching the end of life.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver care to patients and families on one of the wards.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Learn from colleagues with palliative care expertise.

Conocimientos

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

End-of-life care understanding

Descripción del empleo

We have an exciting opportunity for a Healthcare Assistant to work within our inpatient team at St Josephs Hospice. The successful candidate will work as part of the multidisciplinary team, primarily delivering care to patients and their families on one of our two wards. The post offers the opportunity to work alongside and learn from colleagues with palliative care expertise.

You will need:

• Excellent and effective communication and interpersonal skills
• To be able to work well within a team
• To be able to care for people who are approaching the end of their lives

The successful candidate will need to have some experience of caring in either a paid for voluntary capacity, and will demonstrate a commitment to providing a high standard of care to patients.

With a sound understanding of health and safety, nutrition and hydration and infection control, candidates will demonstrate excellent communication skills and an ability to meet patients physical, social and psychological needs appropriately as they approach end of life. The hospice is committed to the supporting in respect of education of all its staff so there are opportunities to grow and develop.

St Joseph’s Hospice was founded in 1905 by the Religious Sisters of Charity and as such it has a rich, Catholic heritage which informs our work today: to support and welcome those in need, from all different cultures, religions and backgrounds.

We provide high quality specialist palliative care for patients with cancer and other life-threatening conditions across East and North London. We have a large team of clinical staff who work across community, in-patient and out-patient services delivering individualised, responsive and holistic support to patients and their families/carers.

Why work for us?

• 27 days holiday plus public holidays, increasing up to 33 days with service
• Subsidised cafe and early access to retail sale events
• Season ticket loans
• Continuation of NHS Pension Scheme or an excellent salary-exchange pension scheme
• Santander cycles discount and cycle to work scheme
• Health Cash Plan and access to the EAP services