Senior Healthcare Assistant

St Michaels Hospice; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospice provider in Harrogate is seeking a Senior Team Healthcare Assistant to deliver compassionate, high-quality care to individuals with life-limiting illnesses. You will act as a shift leader, mentoring staff, and ensuring care plans are implemented. The ideal candidate will have at least three years of experience in a care setting, strong communication skills, and a commitment to hospice values. Make a significant difference in the community with us.

Qualifications

• At least three years experience in a specialist care setting.
• Two years leading end-of-life care preferred.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding and infection control.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic, evidence-based support to individuals with life-limiting illnesses.
• Act as a shift leader, guiding and mentoring Healthcare staff.
• Allocate tasks and ensure care plans are delivered.

Skills

Compassion

Leadership

Communication skills

IT proficiency

Decision-making

Mentoring

Job description

As a Senior Team HCA, youll be at the heart of our mission to deliver compassionate, high-quality, patient-centred hospice care. Youll provide holistic, evidence-based support to individuals with life-limiting illnesses, ensuring patients and families receive both emotional and practical care during lifes most vulnerable moments. Acting as a shift leader, youll guide and mentor Healthcare staff, allocating tasks, ensuring care plans are delivered, and inspiring your team to provide the very best standards of care.

To thrive, youll bring at least three years experience in a specialist care setting, ideally with two years leading end-of-life care. Compassionate, resilient and highly organised, youll be confident in clinical practice while skilled in leadership, mentoring and decision-making. With strong communication skills, IT proficiency and a sound understanding of safeguarding, infection control and multidisciplinary teamwork, youll be a role model for best practice. Above all, youll embody our hospice values, compassion, dignity, inclusivity and professionalism and act as a positive ambassador for hospice care within the community.

Do you want to be part of an organisation that makes a real difference to our local communities? Our family of services including Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just B and Saint Michaels Hospice provide vital support to people when they need it most. Our vision is of a community where everyone gets the care they need, want and deserve You can help make that a reality.

We are an independent charity powered by local communities. Every day, we help to improve quality of life for people living with terminal illness, bereavement and mental health concerns, because our belief is that no one should suffer. Our incredible teams work together to make this happen.