Job summary
The Hospice at Home service cares for patients across Cambridgeshire who choose to remain in their own home in their last weeks of life. We are holistic in our approach and the care is tailored to each persons specific needs. The compassionate team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants provide practical and holistic care supporting patients and their families in their homes. You will work directly and alone with patients and families in their own homes, on a shift basis over 7 days. Please also note that we have full-time and part-time hours available for the role.
These roles work within a team to assist in the delivery of nursing and palliative care, ensuring the highest standard of care are received by patients and their families in their own home.
We offer a range of benefits to our staff, including the option to retain membership to the NHS Pension scheme (subject to conditions.) Other benefits include:
Please note that the salary quoted is based on full time hours and needs to be pro-rata'd for part time posts. We regret that we are unable to negotiate salary above the maximum stated within the advert.
Main duties of the job
Colleagues working within our Hospice at Home (HaH) team cover a wide geographical area, from Tydd St Giles in the North of the county down to Saffron Walden in the South, and everywhere in between. Although allocated to either the Cambridge (South team) or Wisbech (north team) base, colleagues work flexibly as one team in order to meet patient needs wherever they may be. For this reason, we are pleased to offer mileage expense rates in excess of HMRC. Whilst every effort is made to allocate patients close to where you live, this is not always possible we ask all of our colleagues to be flexible and attend patients wherever they are located.
If you have a relevant healthcare experience, then we would like to hear from you!
Arthur Rank Hospice Charity is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults who draw on care and support and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are committed to inclusivity, respect, fairness, engagement and equality of opportunity for our patients and their families, our staff and trustees, our volunteers and our supporters.
About us
Arthur Rank Hospice Charity has an outstanding reputation for excellence in palliative and end of life care. We support people in Cambridgeshire, who are living with life-limiting illnesses and advance conditions. Our positive and practical services deliver care, counselling and education, helping patients to live well and their families to live on.
We value the strength that comes with difference and the positive contribution that diversity brings to our community, therefore, candidates with a disability that meet the minimum criteria will be guaranteed an interview. We are also working to increase diversity throughout the organisation and we particularly welcome applications from BAME people who are currently under-represented.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Hospice at
Home service cares for patients throughout Cambridgeshire who choose to remain
in their own home in their last weeks of life. We are holistic in our approach
and the care is tailored to each persons specific needs. The compassionate
team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants provide practical and holistic care
supporting patients and their families.
Job Purpose:
To
work within a team to assist in the delivery of nursing and palliative care,
ensuring the highest standard of care are received by patients and their
families in their own home.
Main Responsibilities:
-
Contribute
to the delivery of a planned programme of care under the direction of the
Registered Nurse
-
To
carry out tasks involving direct patient care and support to patients and families
-
To
act within the limits of your competency and authority
-
Contribute
to the effectiveness of the team by participating in the multi disciplinary
team working to support individuals in their own homes.
-
Promote
the privacy, dignity and confidentiality of patients at all times
Clinical Intervention:
- Report general observations and feedback to the Registered Nurse
both verbally and in written formats on system one, including any significant changes
in the patients condition
- Undertake specific duties that contribute to the assessment of
patients as requested by the Registered Nurse
- Seek appropriate advice and support from the Registered Nurse
during occasions when patients or their carers become distressed
- Adhere to Arthur Rank Hospice Charity Infection Prevention and
Control Policy
- Maintain the dignity of the patient at all times whilst dealing
with aspects of personal care
- Communicate effectively with patients, carers, staff and other
professionals. Use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome
communication barriers presented by patients due to their cognitive or
impaired sensory deficits.
- Support individuals and carers to cope with their emotional,
psychological and spiritual well-being
- Maintain accurate patient records in accordance with the Arthur
Rank Hospice Charity Record Keeping policy
- Plan with registered professionals activities, interventions or
treatments to achieve specified goals and care plans
- Contribute to care planning by monitoring and evaluating
therapeutic interventions within an overall programme of care
- Help individuals to retain, regain and develop the skills to
manage their lives and environment including enabling individuals to use
assistive technology
- Work in collaboration
with family/carers to enable them to support individuals
- Extra skills that can
be used within the community must be competency assessed yearly and can
only be carried out under the Arthur Rank Hospice Delegation Policy and
under the guidance of a Registered Nurse, such as wound care.
- Demonstrate the
ability to use basic listening skills with patients and their
relatives/carers when appropriate
- Under the guidance of
a Registered Nurse, maximise physical comfort and well-being of patients
in terms of hygiene, mobility, toileting and nutritional needs
- To exercise care and
economy in the use of stores
- Support volunteers,
students and colleagues.
Special feature of the job
- The service provides care 7 days a week across Cambridgeshire and
clinical staff are rostered to provide this coverage. Whilst the rosters
are created 5- 8 weeks in advance, there may be exceptional circumstances
in which the job holder will need to be flexible to change a scheduled
rota at short notice in times of clinical staffing crisis.
Personal Development
- Develop your own knowledge and practice and reflect on and
evaluate your own values, priorities, interests and effectiveness. Monitor
your own work practice.
- With the support of the team leader take responsibility for
attending clinical supervision and staff de briefing sessions.
- All staff are encouraged to contribute to identifying and meeting
their own job-related development needs. This will be achieved through a
variety of processes including 1-21s with line managers or senior
colleagues, annual appraisal and development reviews.
- All employees are subject to an annual appraisal and to maximise
the benefit from this process the employee must engage in the review and
agree with their Line Manager organisational, team and personal objectives
- Each employee must co-operate and attend all appropriate
mandatory and statutory training as required by the organisation.
Health and Safety
- Attends statutory training with respect to moving
and handling, fire safety and basic life support
- Reports any defect in equipment immediately to
the person with overall responsibility at that time.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessments
- Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, play a specific role
in maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and families
- Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety.
Minimise the risk of spreading infection by cleaning, disinfection and
storing care equipment. Ensure your actions contribute to a positive and
safe working culture.
- Protect individuals
from abuse
- Support the
safeguarding of individuals
Key working relationships
-
Patients
and families providing personal care to patients and emotional/spiritual
support and guidance to patients and families
-
Colleagues
working with all members of the MDT to plan and deliver specialist care and
escalating information or concerns about patients to the Registered Nurse
-
Other
agencies sharing information regarding patient care needs to relevant
agencies
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Hospice at
Home service cares for patients throughout Cambridgeshire who choose to remain
in their own home in their last weeks of life. We are holistic in our approach
and the care is tailored to each persons specific needs. The compassionate
team of Nurses and Healthcare Assistants provide practical and holistic care
supporting patients and their families.
Job Purpose:
To
work within a team to assist in the delivery of nursing and palliative care,
ensuring the highest standard of care are received by patients and their
families in their own home.
Main Responsibilities:
-
Contribute
to the delivery of a planned programme of care under the direction of the
Registered Nurse
-
To
carry out tasks involving direct patient care and support to patients and families
-
To
act within the limits of your competency and authority
-
Contribute
to the effectiveness of the team by participating in the multi disciplinary
team working to support individuals in their own homes.
-
Promote
the privacy, dignity and confidentiality of patients at all times
Clinical Intervention:
- Report general observations and feedback to the Registered Nurse
both verbally and in written formats on system one, including any significant changes
in the patients condition
- Undertake specific duties that contribute to the assessment of
patients as requested by the Registered Nurse
- Seek appropriate advice and support from the Registered Nurse
during occasions when patients or their carers become distressed
- Adhere to Arthur Rank Hospice Charity Infection Prevention and
Control Policy
- Maintain the dignity of the patient at all times whilst dealing
with aspects of personal care
- Communicate effectively with patients, carers, staff and other
professionals. Use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome
communication barriers presented by patients due to their cognitive or
impaired sensory deficits.
- Support individuals and carers to cope with their emotional,
psychological and spiritual well-being
- Maintain accurate patient records in accordance with the Arthur
Rank Hospice Charity Record Keeping policy
- Plan with registered professionals activities, interventions or
treatments to achieve specified goals and care plans
- Contribute to care planning by monitoring and evaluating
therapeutic interventions within an overall programme of care
- Help individuals to retain, regain and develop the skills to
manage their lives and environment including enabling individuals to use
assistive technology
- Work in collaboration
with family/carers to enable them to support individuals
- Extra skills that can
be used within the community must be competency assessed yearly and can
only be carried out under the Arthur Rank Hospice Delegation Policy and
under the guidance of a Registered Nurse, such as wound care.
- Demonstrate the
ability to use basic listening skills with patients and their
relatives/carers when appropriate
- Under the guidance of
a Registered Nurse, maximise physical comfort and well-being of patients
in terms of hygiene, mobility, toileting and nutritional needs
- To exercise care and
economy in the use of stores
- Support volunteers,
students and colleagues.
Special feature of the job
- The service provides care 7 days a week across Cambridgeshire and
clinical staff are rostered to provide this coverage. Whilst the rosters
are created 5- 8 weeks in advance, there may be exceptional circumstances
in which the job holder will need to be flexible to change a scheduled
rota at short notice in times of clinical staffing crisis.
Personal Development
- Develop your own knowledge and practice and reflect on and
evaluate your own values, priorities, interests and effectiveness. Monitor
your own work practice.
- With the support of the team leader take responsibility for
attending clinical supervision and staff de briefing sessions.
- All staff are encouraged to contribute to identifying and meeting
their own job-related development needs. This will be achieved through a
variety of processes including 1-21s with line managers or senior
colleagues, annual appraisal and development reviews.
- All employees are subject to an annual appraisal and to maximise
the benefit from this process the employee must engage in the review and
agree with their Line Manager organisational, team and personal objectives
- Each employee must co-operate and attend all appropriate
mandatory and statutory training as required by the organisation.
Health and Safety
- Attends statutory training with respect to moving
and handling, fire safety and basic life support
- Reports any defect in equipment immediately to
the person with overall responsibility at that time.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessments
- Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, play a specific role
in maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and families
- Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety.
Minimise the risk of spreading infection by cleaning, disinfection and
storing care equipment. Ensure your actions contribute to a positive and
safe working culture.
- Protect individuals
from abuse
- Support the
safeguarding of individuals
Key working relationships
-
Patients
and families providing personal care to patients and emotional/spiritual
support and guidance to patients and families
-
Colleagues
working with all members of the MDT to plan and deliver specialist care and
escalating information or concerns about patients to the Registered Nurse
-
Other
agencies sharing information regarding patient care needs to relevant
agencies
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a Healthcare Assistant (or equivalent) in a hospice, hospital or community setting
- Experience of working Independently
Skills/Ability/Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to empathise with the needs of the clients
- Ability to work as part of a team
Qualifications
Essential
- Good general education
- NVQ2 or willingness to undertake
Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work under pressure and in difficult/emotional situations
- Interest in the provision of palliative care
Other Requirements
Essential
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a Healthcare Assistant (or equivalent) in a hospice, hospital or community setting
- Experience of working Independently
Skills/Ability/Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to empathise with the needs of the clients
- Ability to work as part of a team
Qualifications
Essential
- Good general education
- NVQ2 or willingness to undertake
Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work under pressure and in difficult/emotional situations
- Interest in the provision of palliative care
Other Requirements
Essential
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.
