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Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Healthcare Assistant/Community Carer. This role involves delivering compassionate care in both inpatient and community settings, supporting patients with empathy and teamwork. Ideal for those with a Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate and a passion for making a difference in patients' lives.

Qualifications

Experience providing personal care in a hospital, hospice, or community setting.
Qualified to Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate.

Responsibilities

Deliver high quality Specialist Palliative and End of Life care.
Support assessment, planning, and evaluation of patient-centered care.
Deliver direct care and emotional support for patients.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Teamwork

Education

Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate

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Job Summary

Are you someone who likes to make a difference within your role, and do you hold ample amounts of empathy and compassion? Would you like to work where teamwork is at the forefront of everyone's mind? Where everyone supports each other and together provides the utmost care for their patients?

The postholder will support the registered nursing team in providing care and support to our patients - this could be on the Inpatient Unit at our Hospice, or out in the community with our Care at Home team, visiting patients in their own homes.

This role offers excellent opportunity for you to develop and enhance your healthcare skills and experience within palliative and end of life care.

Bank - hours to be worked flexibly including weekends, bank holidays, evenings/nights

Main duties of the job

About The Role - Inpatient Unit:

You will deliver high quality Specialist Palliative and End of Life care as part of the Inpatient Unit multidisciplinary team, under the direction of the designated nursing team.

You will support the assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centered care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients' ever-changing needs, maintaining the patients comfort, dignity and privacy at all times.

About the role: Care at Home Carer - full clean driving licence essential

You will be delivering direct care, treatment and emotional support for patients as required within set protocols/policies in accordance with the patient's individual care plan, working flexibly across all care services provided by Mountbatten.

This will involve working in patients' own homes or other places of care, and work in collaboration with colleagues to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate care and support.

This role requires promoting and maintaining effective liaison with the care team, and other health and social agencies involved in the patients' care.

About You:

You will be qualified to Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate and have previous care experience.

You will be required to deliver a high standard of direct patient care, with both direct and indirect supervision as delegated by the qualified nurse.

About Us

Mountbatten Hampshire is part of the Mountbatten Group, and its sister Hospice is Mountbatten Isle of Wight.

We pride ourselves on providing expert care and support to our communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, who are facing death, dying and bereavement.

Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those closest to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.

Our Values

We care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other

We are experts in our field. We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do

We are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources

We respect our community. We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others

Date posted

03 April 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.42 an hour (£24,276 per annum FTE) Mountbatten Band 2

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0507-VC219

Job locations

Botley Rd

West End

Southampton

Hampshire

SO30 3JB

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Descriptions, which include the Person Specifications, for the full duties of these exciting roles with us here at Mountbatten.

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Descriptions, which include the Person Specifications, for the full duties of these exciting roles with us here at Mountbatten.

Person Specification

Other

Essential

For the Care at Home role: a full clean UK driving licence, with access to a vehicle insured for business use.

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to a good standard
Care Certificate or NVQ level 2 in health care or equivalent or willing to study towards

Desirable

Specialist palliative care training

Skills

Essential

Demonstrate commitment to the patients right to be involved in decision making relating to their health care and ensuring decisions are understood by care teams
Good IT Skills including Microsoft and email applications
Good communication skills to explain complex and sensitive information effectively in both written and oral to both patients, families, carers and other professionals
Knowledge of pressure area care, nutrition and moving and handling with the ability to assess risk

Desirable

Commitment to improving and promoting palliative care services
Motivated and committed to personal and professional development

Abilities

Essential

To respond to difficult situations in a sensitive manner and have the ability to deal with difficult emotional situations
To be an effective advocate for the patient within multi-disciplinary teams across all healthcare settings
To work shift patterns on a rota basis including nights, weekend, bank holidays
To be flexible in covering shifts at short notice.

Desirable

To effectively manage own time and workloads

Experience

Essential

Experience of providing personal care and support for patients within care in a hospital, hospice or community setting
Experience of working in a person centred/personal outcomes approach

Desirable

Awareness of palliative care issues
Recent Palliative Care Experience
Experience of dealing with vulnerable adults in a care setting
Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels including volunteers

Person Specification

Essential

Experience of providing personal care and support for patients within care in a hospital, hospice or community setting
Experience of working in a person centred/personal outcomes approach

Desirable

Awareness of palliative care issues
Recent Palliative Care Experience
Experience of dealing with vulnerable adults in a care setting
Experience of working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and the ability to form good working relationships at all levels including volunteers

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Mountbatten Hampshire

Address

Botley Rd

West End

Southampton

Hampshire

SO30 3JB

Employer's website

https://www.mountbatten.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Mountbatten Hampshire

Address

Botley Rd

West End

Southampton

Hampshire

SO30 3JB

Employer's website

https://www.mountbatten.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Seniority level

Seniority level
Entry level

Employment type

Employment type
Part-time

Job function

Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals

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