Healthcare Assistant - Scottish Borders

NHS Scotland; Scotland; Remote; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 27 days

Sick/Parental leave

Training programmes

Season ticket loan

Pension scheme

Bike loan

Friend referral

Eyecare support

Marie Curie Blue Light Card

Discount scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

Marie Curie is seeking a compassionate Healthcare Assistant to provide overnight, terminally ill patient care in community settings across the Scottish Borders. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, visiting patients at home within a 25-mile radius, delivering tailored, dignified care and supporting families through end-of-life care.

This permanent part-time role offers 18 hours per week (two night shifts), with pro rata pay Band 2 and extensive benefits, based from home with local

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 months’ experience delivering care in health or social care.
• Valid UK driving licence and access to own vehicle.
• NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care (or willing to work towards).
• Employer requires nurturing, compassionate approach and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Access visit schedules and patient details via electronic tablet at start of each shift.
• Contact patients and families before arrival to confirm visits and provide reassurance.
• Attend patients' homes and liaise with patient, family and out-of-hours clinical service.
• Deliver high-quality, person-centred care including pain and symptom management and fluid intake support.
• Accurately document care and observations in electronic records.
• Work one-to-one in the patient’s home, ensuring safety, dignity and professionalism.
• Provide overnight support to a single patient with companionship and monitoring for deterioration.
• Escalate concerns to out-of-hours service promptly.
• Deliver sensitive care following a patient’s death and assist with body preparation.
• Notify out-of-hours if a patient passes during the night and complete documentation.

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care

Job description

Are you a compassionate Healthcare Assistant looking for a role where your care can make a truly meaningful difference?

Marie Curie is looking for dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our community-based overnight service across the Scottish Borders, supporting people living with a terminal illness in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes. Covering communities including Galashiels, Coldstream, Eyemouth, Cockburnspath, Hawick, Jedburgh and Lauder, you’ll typically provide care within a 25-mile radius of your home.

Working overnight, you’ll provide compassionate, person-centred care that helps patients feel safe, comfortable and supported. Just as importantly, your presence will offer reassurance to families and those close to them, knowing their loved one is receiving skilled and dignified care throughout the night.

You’ll work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, helping us make sure that every person receives the care, dignity and compassion they deserve at the end of life.

This is more than a Healthcare Assistant role. It’s an opportunity to make a real difference to people in your local community when they need you most.

If you share our commitment to compassionate, person-centred care, we’d love to hear from you.

What you will be doing:

• Access visit schedules and patient details via the electronic tablet system at the start of each shift.
• Contact patients and their families prior to arrival to confirm the visit and provide reassurance.
• Attend patients’ homes and communicate effectively with both the patient and their loved ones, as well as liaise with the out-of-hours clinical service.
• Deliver high-quality, person-centred care tailored to individual needs, including:pain and symptom management, pressure area care and monitoring and supporting fluid intake.
• Accurately document all care provided and observations in the patient’s electronic records.
• Work independently on a one-to-one basis within the patient’s home, ensuring safety, dignity and professionalism at all times.
• Provide overnight support to a single patient, offering companionship and monitoring for any signs of deterioration.
• Escalate any concerns or changes in the patient’s condition to the out-of-hours service promptly.
• Deliver sensitive and respectful care following a patient’s death, including personal care and preparation of the body.
• Notify the out-of-hours service in the event of a patient passing during the night and complete all required documentation.

What we’re looking for:

• Minimum of6 months’ experiencedelivering care in a health or social care setting
• Full UK driving licenceand access to your own vehicle
• NVQ Level 2 qualification in Health and Social Care(or equivalent), or a willingness to work towards this qualification
• Anurturing and compassionate approach, with excellent communication skills
• The ability towork independentlywhile being an integral part of a multidisciplinary team

Salary: Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale Band2 £26,696 to £28,988 per annum pro rata with generious enhancements which include44% x your basic salary per hour paid for Saturdays & weekday night duty (8pm to 6am)

88% x your basic salary per hour paid for Sundays and Public Bank Holidays

Contract: Permanent part time 18 hours per week (2 night shifts per week across a day service 10pm to 7.00am)

Based: Community Based (Based from home traveling within a 25-mile radius across the Scottish Borders)

Benefits You’ll Love

• Annual leave allowance 27 days plus 10 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
• Introduce a friend scheme
• Help with eyecare cost
• Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
• Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme
• Life assurance – for all employees