Healthcare Assistant - Catterick, Northallerton and Leyburn

NHS; Catterick Garrison; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading palliative care organization in Catterick is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to support patients at home. The role requires assistance with hygiene, monitoring symptoms, and providing emotional support. Candidates should have relevant qualifications, experience in end-of-life care, and must be drivers with a vehicle. The position offers part-time hours with additional benefits including training programs and fair leave policies.

Benefits

Annual leave (27 days plus 8 public holidays)

Industry leading training programmes

Life assurance for all employees

Loan schemes for bikes and computers

Discount scheme for employees

Qualifications

• Experience in providing care for dying patients.
• Functional skills at level 2 in numeracy and literacy or equivalent.
• UK licensed driver with access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with hygiene needs.
• Monitor symptoms and assist with medications.
• Provide emotional support to patients and families.

Skills

End of Life care

Emotional support

Initiative

Hygiene assistance

Education

S/NVQ Level 2/3 qualification

Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

Healthcare Assistant - Catterick, Northallerton and Leyburn

As a Healthcare Assistant with the Marie Curie Hospice Care at Home Overnight Service in Catterick, Northallerton, Leyburn, and the surrounding areas, you will provide essential support to patients and their families during their most critical moments.

Main duties of the job

With your experience in End of Life care, you are well-prepared to make a significant impact. Our one-to-one approach ensures that you will have ample meaningful interactions with patients and their families, typically within their own homes. Working independently, you will have the chance to use your initiative in accordance with the patient's established care plan. Your responsibilities will include assisting patients with their hygiene needs, monitoring symptoms, assisting with medications, maintaining detailed records, and providing emotional support to both patients and their families.

About us

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're 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.

Job responsibilities

We are currently recruiting Healthcare Assistants to join our Hospice Care at Home Overnight Service in Catterick, Northallerton, Leyburn and surrounding areas.

Hours: Part Time - 27 hours per week (3 night shifts) or 18 hours per week (2 night shifts)

Advert closes: 6th October 2025

Interview Dates: TBC

As a Healthcare Assistant with the Marie Curie Hospice Care at Home Overnight Service in Catterick, Northallerton, Leyburn and surrounding areas, you'll be supporting patients and families in their time of greatest need. We provide free specialist palliative care and support to patients with life limiting illness whilst offering vital emotional support for their families.

With experience of End of Life care, you're ready and able to make a real difference. Ours is a one-to-one approach to care, so you're sure to enjoy plenty of meaningful contact with patients and their families - usually in their own homes. Working without close supervision, you'll have the opportunity to use your own initiative in line with the patient's established care plan. You'll be required to carry out a range of care duties including helping patients meet their hygiene needs, monitoring symptoms, assisting with medications and keeping detailed records and emotional support to the patient and their families.

What were looking for:

• Be a UK licensed driver with access to a car and business insurance is essential
• Relevant community experience
• S/NVQ Level 2/3 qualification or an equivalent certificate/diploma is required
• Emotional strength and the ability to work on your own are crucial, though we will of course provide excellent on-going training and support
• Recent experience of providing care and caring for people with life limiting illness or palliative care needs

What's in it for you:

• Annual leave allowance 27 days plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
• Competitive Policy for parental/sick Leave
• Industry leading training programmes
• Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
• Defined contribution schemes for Pension
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
• Help with eye care costs
• Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
• Entitled to Benefit Hub Discount Scheme
• Life assurance for all employees
• 41% x your basic salary per hour paid for Saturdays & weekday night duty (8pm to 6am)and
• 83% x your basic salary per hour paid for Sundays and Public Bank Holidays
• To apply, please send us your most recent CV and a cover letter detailing your experience, how you meet the person specification and why you would like to work for Marie Curie.

Additional information

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences. We're happy to accommodate any requests for reasonable adjustments. Please email any requests to [e-mail]

This role will be subject to receiving an enhanced DBS criminal record check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 2 in Health and Social Care OR an equivalent alternative Level 2 Qualification i.e. NCFE level 2 Certificate in Healthcare Support Services, BTEC level 2 Health and Social Care.
• Functional skills at level 2 in numeracy and literacy or equivalent
• National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 3 in Health and Social Care OR an acceptable, alternative Level 3 Qualification
• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate

Experience

• Recent professional experience of providing care and caring for dying patients.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.