Healthcare Assistant - Overnight

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care; England; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 23,000; Part time

Job summary

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care in the United Kingdom is seeking an HCA to provide hands-on personal and clinical care to patients in their own homes. You’ll work mainly in the community, often alone, with nursing team guidance and a clear developmental path after completing the RGP HCA competency workbook.

Join a charitable hospice service delivering palliative and end-of-life care, bereavement support, and a wide range of patient services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.

Qualifications

• Care Certificate, or a health and social care qualification at level 2 or above.
• Level 3 health and social care qualification, or completion of the RGP HCA competency workbook within twelve months with our support.
• Experience of caring for people, paid or unpaid.
• Communicates clearly and kindly with patients, families and colleagues.
• Understands safeguarding, dignity and confidentiality.
• Basic IT skills and willingness to use the electronic patient record after training.
• Can show how they work in line with RGP's values: compassionate, supportive, inclusive and collaborative.
• Experience of palliative or end of life care; experience of clinical observations or phlebotomy.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care with dignity: washing, toileting, mouth and skin care, nutrition and hydration, comfort at the end of life.
• Work to each patient's care plan; notice and report changes in condition or family need promptly to the registered professional.
• Once signed off in the workbook, carry out delegated clinical duties: observations (blood pressure, oxygen saturation, blood glucose), urinalysis, IPOS reviews, simple wound dressings, syringe driver safety checks.
• Record the care you give accurately and promptly in the electronic patient record.
• Work under the direction of a registered professional; act on your own initiative within delegated tasks, with supervision accessible including when working alone in patients' homes, with phone support always available.

Skills

Compassionate

Clear communication

Reliability

IT literacy

Team collaboration

Education

Care Certificate or Level 2+ in health and social care

Level 3 health and social care qualification or workbook completion

Job description

• Hours: 19 per week (2 x 9.5 hour shifts per week, worked 21:15 07:15 with 30 min break)
• Location: Rennie Grove Peace Geographical Area
• Interview date: 25 November 2026

Main duties of the job

You'll give hands-on personal and clinical care to patients and support the people close to them, Community: in patients' own homes, working alone with the nursing team's guidance behind you, under the direction of a registered professional. Once you've completed the RGP HCA competency workbook you'll take on delegated clinical duties, and your development from day one follows a clear path with named support.

About us

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to patients, carers, and families facing progressive life-limiting illness. We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire and our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years.) Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces.

We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individuals needs, whether that's at home, in a care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose-built Living Well Centre facilities. As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.

Our staff team of 340+ includes a wide range of patient-facing disciplines plus operational support based in Watford, Tring, St Albans, Chalfont St Giles and Berkhamsted. The Charity is now one of the larger UK hospice charities, reaching a GP population of 797,037 of whom 75% live in Hertfordshire and 25% in Buckinghamshire.

Job responsibilities

• Provide personal care with dignity: washing, toileting, mouth and skin care, nutrition and hydration, comfort at the end of life.
• Work to each patient's care plan; notice and report changes in condition or family need promptly to the registered professional.
• Once signed off in the workbook, carry out delegated clinical duties: observations (blood pressure, oxygen saturation, blood glucose), urinalysis, IPOS reviews, simple wound dressings, syringe driver safety checks.
• Record the care you give accurately and promptly in the electronic patient record.
• Work under the direction of a registered professional; act on your own initiative within delegated tasks, with supervision accessible including when working alone in patients' homes, with phone support always available.

Person Specification

Additional Criteria

• Care Certificate, or a health and social care qualification at level 2 or above
• Level 3 health and social care qualification, or completion of the RGP HCA competency workbook within twelve months with our support
• Experience of caring for people, paid or unpaid
• Communicates clearly and kindly with patients, families and colleagues, including where there are barriers to understanding and where people are distressed
• Works reliably under direction, carries out delegated duties and reports concerns
• Understands safeguarding, dignity and confidentiality
• Basic IT skills and willingness to use the electronic patient record after training
• Can show how they work in line with RGP's values: compassionate, supportive, inclusive and collaborative, with examples that match RGP's behavioural indicators.
• Experience of palliative or end of life care; experience of clinical observations or phlebotomy

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.