Healthcare Assistant - Buckinghamshire

Marie Curie Hospice, Glasgow; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading end-of-life charity is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to join their community team in Buckinghamshire. The role focuses on providing compassionate, person-centred end-of-life care and support to individuals and their families. Responsibilities include monitoring hygiene, assisting with nutrition, and ensuring a clean care environment. Candidates should demonstrate empathy and strong communication skills. Join us in making a difference in people's lives during critical times.

Qualifications

• Experience in personal care and support roles is desirable.
• Ability to demonstrate empathetic and professional communication.
• Commitment to providing high-quality care.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic, person-centred end-of-life care.
• Monitor and maintain patients' skin integrity and hygiene.
• Support nutritional needs and ensure adequate rest.

Skills

Empathy

Communication skills

Personal care

Emotional support

Job description

We invite qualified candidates to become part of our multidisciplinary community team in Buckinghamshire as a Healthcare Assistant. This role involves providing holistic, person-centred end-of-life care and support to individuals and their families, ensuring that they receive compassionate and thorough assistance during essential periods.

You will be responsible for:

• Monitoring and maintaining patients' skin integrity and personal hygiene
• Supporting their nutritional needs
• Ensuring they get adequate rest and sleep
• Assisting with mobility
• Helping keep the care environment clean and organised
• Providing essential support in symptom management

You will demonstrate empathetic and professional communication with patients and their significant others, consistently providing high-quality personal care and support to enhance overall wellbeing.

If you are passionate about making a difference in people's lives, we would love to hear from you.

Marie Curie is the UK’s 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, they are 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.

We provide free specialist care and support to patients with terminal illnesses whilst offering vital emotional support for their families. It's all about giving them the best possible quality of life. The support we offer is tailored to meet individuals' medical, social, spiritual and emotional needs.

We want a different society than the one we live in now. Our mission for the next five years is to close the gap in the number of people missing out on what they need at the end-of-life.