Senior Palliative Care Assistant (Senior Healthcare Assistant)

Senior Palliative Care Assistant (Senior Health Care Assistant)

Location: Wolverhampton, WV3 9DH

Hours: 23 hours per week

Salary: £24,350 (pro-rata)

(successful applicants are normally appointed at the bottom of the salary band, exceptions may apply).

What we do

Compton Care is proud to provide care and support to those living with life limiting conditions through several dedicated but also interlinked service including our inpatient unit, community care, our living well centre, and supportive care services.

What will you do?

As a Senior Palliative Care Assistant, you will provide accessible, innovative, and influential care for people living with complex and incurable conditions in our communities as well as supporting their families and carers.

You will participate in delivering healthcare to patients and providing emotional and psychological support, working in partnership with the patient and in collaboration with internal colleagues and the external health community.

What we want you to bring.

You will need experience of providing care in a health or social setting along with an NVQ level 3 in care or equivalent. You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skill and be able to demonstrate the ability to be compassionate and sensitive towards our service users and your colleagues.

You should be able to use IT and be familiar with packages such as Word and Excel.

Please refer to the full Job Description for further details and requirements for the role.

What’s in it for you?

• Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with long service.
• A contributory pension scheme with salary sacrifice or transfer of NHS pension for those in patient facing roles.
• Death in service benefit at two times salary (for those not in an NHS pension scheme).
• Employee assistance programme and 24/7 GP access.
• Blue Light card accredited and access to a discount platform.
• Career progression and development opportunities.
• Free onsite car parking at Compton Hall.

About our recruitment process:

Please note that we reserve the right to close a vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. It is also subject to satisfactory references and occupational health clearance.