Bank Hospice Community Carer/HCA

Job summary

Reports to:Care Team Coordinator

We are looking for enthusiastic dedicated health-care workers to join our team, providing care at home in our local catchment area. In this role you will make a lasting difference to the lives of people through care that will have a positive impact on the patient, and the community for many years to come.

PLEASE NOTE: We do not provide sponsorship, the successful applicant must be a current UK resident authorised to work in the UK without restrictions

Main duties of the job

As a palliative care provider, we reduce pain symptoms and discomfort for patients, and support their welfare with an individually agreed plan, at a difficult time in their lives.

About us

The Hospice of St Francis is a charity which helps 2,000 local people and their families, in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, to live their precious lives well.

Improving symptoms, achieving personal goals and helping them to feel safe.

Defined by each persons need, our free care for people managing, or recovering from, serious illness has many forms care at the Hospice, at Home, or in our Health and Wellbeing Centre which offers courses, workshops, clinics and therapies.

Based in beautiful surroundings just outside Berkhamsted, were also here for family, friends and carers.

We offer advice for those worried about a loved one which could mean recommending group activities, supporting children through a close relatives illness or providing practical support and advice when someone special is no longer here.