Healthcare Assistant

Rowcroft Hospice; Torquay; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Rowcroft Hospice is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join our Inpatient Unit in Torquay. This permanent role offers both full-time and part-time hours up to 37.5 per week.

You will care for and support patients as part of a multidisciplinary team, bringing excellent customer service and a caring, patient-focused approach.

Band A £25,272 per annum pro-rata; Band B £25,760 pa after competencies. Training and development opportunities are provided.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills and experience in a patient or customer facing role.
• NVQ level 2 or equivalent in care.
• Driven by compassion and able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Care for and support patients as part of the inpatient unit team.

Skills

Customer service

Education

NVQ level 2 in care

Job description

Contract Type: Full Time & Part Time Available - Permanent

Part-time or full-time available up to 37.5 hours per week

Permanent

Band A : £25,272 per annum pro-rata

(Band B once competencies completed - £25,760 pa)

Make your work count! Are you our next Healthcare Assistant to join our Inpatient Unit?

If you want to feel personal fulfilment from a career with real meaning, consider Rowcroft Hospice. We offer purposeful work in a uniquely progressive environment.

An opportunity has arisen to join our Inpatient Unit as a Healthcare Assistant where you will help to care for and support our patients as part of our multidisciplinary team.

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role you will needto have excellent customer service skills,experience in a patient or customer facing role andanNVQ level 2 or equivalent in care.

You will be driven by our cause and will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment as part of a close team – to deliver on our strategy takes real teamwork, energy and passion, no two days are ever the same!

What’s in it for you?

At Rowcroft we pride ourselves in supporting staff to develop and we offer training. You will be supported and encouraged to innovate and to try new things. Our scope of work and our confident organisational vision creates opportunities for progress and development. We work together with passion and pride in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive and welcoming. It can be tough. We don’t shy away from that, but you’ll clearly see the importance and impact of your work and feel recognised and part of something remarkable.

Working at Rowcroft Hospice

Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year. Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.

For more Information

Please see below to download the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.

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Contract Type
Full Time & Part Time Available - Permanent