Senior Palliative Care Assistant (Senior Healthcare Assistant)

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

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.

We offer the following benefits:

• 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 us

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.