Healthcare Assistant - Blackpool

Marie Curie Hospice, Glasgow; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Marie Curie Hospice is seeking a dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our night-time community-based team. You will provide high-quality, person-centred care to patients in their own homes or community settings, focusing on dignity, comfort and individual needs during the night hours.

As a lone worker, you will manage your own workload, respond to changing patient needs, and deliver both personal and clinical care while escalating concerns to senior clinicians within the multidisciplinary team

Qualifications

• Night shift Healthcare Assistant role in a community setting.
• Ability to work independently as a lone worker.
• Strong communication and observational skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal and clinical care with dignity and comfort.
• Support with hygiene, nutrition, hydration and observation.
• Escalate concerns to senior clinicians when needed.
• Manage own workload and respond to changing patient needs during the night.

Job description

Working as part of our community-based team, you'll play a vital role in helping patients remain comfortable, safe and supported during the night, enabling them to stay in the place they choose to receive their care. You'll provide high-quality, person-centred care that focuses on dignity, comfort and individual needs at a time when compassionate support matters most.

As a lone worker, you'll be responsible for managing your own workload and responding appropriately to changing patient needs throughout the night. You'll deliver a range of personal and clinical care activities, including support with hygiene, nutrition, hydration, comfort and observation, while recognising when concerns need to be escalated to senior clinicians within the multidisciplinary team.

This role requires a confident, self-motivated Healthcare Assistant who is comfortable working independently in the community. You'll have a good understanding of palliative and end of life care, strong communication skills, and the ability to make sound decisions within your scope of practice while providing reassurance and support to patients and their families.

Marie Curie is the UKs leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement.Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, theyre likely to die from.

The care and support we provide is highly valued by the people we care for and their loved ones, but at present we are only reaching around 10% of dying people at the end of life.Right now, one in four people in the UK with a terminal illness, do not get the care or support they deserve at the end of their lives.