Health Care Assistant - Herriot Hospice @The Lambert

Saint Michaels Hospice

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Job summary

Up to 37.5 hours per week (5 shifts per week) - Part time hours also available

Permanent

£27,159 per annum FTE (based on a fixed rota system)

Shifts cover days, evenings, weekends, bank holidays and nights

Thirsk - Herriot Hospice @The Lambert In-Patient Unit

Closing date: 25thFebruary2024

Interviews will be held in Harrogate on Wednesday 13th March between 10am and 4pm.

Our Health Care Assistants work within the Inpatient Unit alongside other Health Care Professionals, providing an excellent standard of care to patients with palliative and end of life care needs, whilst also offering vital emotional support to their families.

Health Care Assistants provide a patient-centred and holistic approach to the care they deliver, this may include assisting to meet hygiene needs, monitoring symptoms, basic wound care, and have the opportunity to develop clinical skills working closely with the registered nurses.

What is in it for you?

7 weeks holiday per year (35 days, including Bank Holidays pro rata)
4 participatory specialist training days per year (fully funded)
Access to staff support and clinical supervision
Development of clinical skills
Employee Assistance Programme
Free group life assurance
Pension Scheme with employer contribution of 8%
Support from a Clinical Practice Educator.
Free DBS
Free car parking at Hospice office sites.
Refer a friend bonus scheme

Main duties of the job

What are we looking for?

Caring, compassionate and enthusiastic people.
Experience isnt as essential as being motivated and passionate about developing your specialist palliative care knowledge and skills.
Great communication skills.
Someone who enjoys working within a team.

About us

You will be joining an organisation that is driven, caring, and responsive and you will be playing an important role in enabling us to provide our highly valued services to the people of Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, and District.

Unfortunately, we are not currently able to consider applicants who do not have the right to work in the UK, but we are exploring becoming a sponsorship employer and hope to be able to offer this in the future.

At North Yorkshire Hospice Care we believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Every member of our organisation has a responsibility to promote the welfare of all who encounter our services. We aim to keep people safe and to operate our services in a way that protects them; to make reporting concerns as easy as possible and respond quickly; to listen to all worries and work in partnership with individuals and agencies. All our staff and volunteers receive annual training on both adults and children/young peoples safeguarding.

We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks being obtained including successful applicants being required to undertake a DBS Check. Disclosure expenses will be met by the employer.

Date posted

29 January 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£27,159 a year £27,159 per annum (based on a fixed rota system)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

B0009-24-0003

Job locations

Herriot Hospice @The Lambert

Chapel Street

Thirsk

North Yorkshire

YO7 1LU

Job description

Job responsibilities

Health Care Assistant

Job Description

Job Purpose

To be an effective member our clinical team to ensure the provision of high-level care (including palliative, end of life, complex care and social) within a multi-disciplinary approach across all North Yorkshire Hospice Care services.

Key Tasks all services

1. To assist patients and clients with their activities of daily living, reimagining the care and support they need to live their lives with dignity and compassion, providing high quality and specialist palliative, end of life, complex care or social care.

2. To participate in agreed programmes of care ensuring that all care given is clearly and accurately documented in line with standards and seeking support from senior staff as necessary.

3. To engage with and support all client and patients carers, loved ones, relatives and friends, in a courteous and friendly manner, providing additional support as required.

4. To follow all infection prevention and control policies, procedures and guidelines.

5. To follow North Yorkshire Hospice Care procedures in caring for patients after death and providing support to family and carers as necessary.

6. To support new members of the team accorss the organisation in their orientation process.

7. To communicate with external professionals, members of the team, clients, patients and carers clearly and effectively, seeking help as needed.

8. To work closely with the Multi-disciplinary Team and volunteers, promoting supportive and collaborative working relationships.

9. To follow North Yorkshire Hospice Care policies and practice in taking care of patients property and valuables.

10. To provide any clinical skills such as medication administration, glucose montioring and any other skills, that are within the operating perameters of the service, that are required within the patients and clients care or care plans and within your trained competencies.

11. To follow moving and handling policies, procedures and training to support the independence and dignity of our patients and clients.

12. To maintain a safe working environment at all times, making the best and most economic use of resources, and equipment.

13. To work in line with all systems requirements, working with the Hospice Services Team where needed, based on location and service to ensure timely, effective and accurate documentation of care provided and to ensure effective communication of needs between different clinical professionals, shifts or otherwise as required to support patient and client care.

14. To ensure that all aspects of confidentiality and data protection are maintained in line with North Yorkshire Hospice Care policies and the principles of information governance.

15. To embed the values of the organisation into your working practices evidencing this regularly and ensuring this remains a priority, positively representing the organisation at all times.

Key Tasks place based services

1. When not allocated to a particular team during a shift, to provide support to each team as necessary supporting patient care and at lunch time taking part in support to patients with meals and feeding patients as necessary.

2. To maintain high standards of comfort and hygiene and meet the needs of patients work with the Housekeeping and Catering teams in dealing with tasks such as laundry, preparing refreshments and serving meals.

3. To deliver high standards of comfort and care meeting the needs of our patients and working alongside our wider MDT, including the housekeeping team to ensure this.

To undertake all duties in accordance with the law, hospice philosophy, recognised professional guidelines and the hospice commitment to equality of opportunity and collective responsibility.

The above tasks are indicative of the role to be carried out; they may change from time to time in collaboration with the post holder and in line with service need.