Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Healthcare Assistant - Hospice at Home

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Job summary

Healthcare Assistant - Hospice at Home

Band 3

Part time - 20 hours per week

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Care Assistant to join our Hospice at Home team. The team provide care and support to patients with palliative care needs, and their families, alongside existing primary care services across South Sefton in the patient's own home.

It is essential that applicants have a relevant NVQ Level 3 and previous experience of working as a Healthcare Assistant in a community setting, along with a valid full UK driver's licence and access to their own car for business purposes.

The successful applicant will be supported to complete the Care Certificate as part of their induction.

This post involves shift work over 7 days, and rotation between nights and days will be required.

**Please note this vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received**

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team and will assist and support the community clinical team(s). This will include working as within the patient's home environment to provide care and support to patients with palliative care needs, and their families.

The Hospice at Home service supports the family and patient to enable the patient to remain at home in their preferred place of care towards the end of their life. It is supplementary to any CHC package of care, and provides HCA care shifts or sits, for extended periods of time providing 1:1 care for palliative patients, supporting the family to have a break from their carer role during these periods.

The post holder would be expected to undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills as determined by the needs of the individual patient. The successful applicant will be required to work unsupervised as a lone worker in the patient's own home caring for patients with a range of palliative care needs, in the last months, days and hours of their lives. Excellent communication skills are essential for this role, both with patients and families, the wider specialist palliative care MDT, and when collaborating with primary care teams caring for the patient.

The post holder may at times be required to provide support and cover as a Band 3 HCA for the specialist palliative care inpatient unit based at Woodlands Hospice.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Details

Date posted

18 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

287-AMED-148-24

Job locations

Woodlands Hospice - Community Based Role

Longmoor Lane

Liverpool

L9 7LA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of this role and its requirements.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of this role and its requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Previous health and social care experience or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of the principles of Data Protection Act
  • Health and Safety
  • Equality and Diversity

Skills

Essential

  • Able to work without direct supervision.
  • Able to plan own workload
  • Ability to undertake clinical interventions commensurate with NVQ level 3 skills
  • Able to work as a team member
  • Excellent developed oral and written communication skills
  • Able to keep accurate written and electronic contemporaneous records
  • Able to work in a confidential and sensitive manner
  • Able to travel for work purposes
  • Basic computer skills/ECDL or equivalent
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Previous health and social care experience or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of the principles of Data Protection Act
  • Health and Safety
  • Equality and Diversity

Skills

Essential

  • Able to work without direct supervision.
  • Able to plan own workload
  • Ability to undertake clinical interventions commensurate with NVQ level 3 skills
  • Able to work as a team member
  • Excellent developed oral and written communication skills
  • Able to keep accurate written and electronic contemporaneous records
  • Able to work in a confidential and sensitive manner
  • Able to travel for work purposes
  • Basic computer skills/ECDL or equivalent

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Woodlands Hospice - Community Based Role

Longmoor Lane

Liverpool

L9 7LA


Employer's website

https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Woodlands Hospice - Community Based Role

Longmoor Lane

Liverpool

L9 7LA


Employer's website

https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Hospice At Home Coordinator

Tracey Taylor

01515298672

Details

Date posted

18 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

287-AMED-148-24

Job locations

Woodlands Hospice - Community Based Role

Longmoor Lane

Liverpool

L9 7LA


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