Role: Healthcare Assistant (Hospice in your Home)
Hours: 30 hours per week, internal rotation over 7 days a week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £18,564 – £21,209 per annum (pro rata of £22,896 – £26,158)
Closing date: 21/03/2025
Interview date: TBC
Wigan & Leigh Hospice is a wonderful place to work. Our staff are our greatest asset providing the very highest standard of care. All our teams are part of the Hospice team: working together to make the Hospice the best it can be. We have achieved Outstanding in the last CQC inspection. Our values: Compassion, Accessibility, Respect, Excellence, are at the heart of everything we do.
About the role
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will deliver high-quality, holistic, palliative, and end-of-life nursing care to patients under the direction of a Registered Nurse/Assistant Practitioner. As the successful candidate, you will have previous experience within a care setting and knowledge of palliative care and nursing patients at end of life. Experience in community nursing is advantageous.
You will provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support to patients in their normal place of residence and therefore must be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, hold a full UK driving license, and have access to a vehicle for work, which you must have insured for business use.
This role is part of the Hospice in your Home team – although whilst working in a patient’s place of residence you will be working alone, therefore you must possess excellent organisational and decision-making skills.
You will hold RQF Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent, be required to adhere to the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Workers, and we will support your personal development by assisting you through the Care Certificate. Palliative care experience is essential in order to apply for this role, which will need to be demonstrated within your application form.
We are proud to offer a wide range of benefits, including:
1. A warm and welcoming working environment
2. 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays, increasing with length of service
3. Contributory pension scheme
4. Free car parking
5. Subsidised lunches
6. Cycle to Work Scheme
7. Shopping, leisure and holiday discounts
8. On-demand GP
9. Westfield Health Cash Plan
10. Life Assurance
11. A range of Wellbeing initiatives
The available role
We have one permanent role available, working 30 hours per week on internal rotation over 7 days a week within our Hospice in your Home Team.
Shifts: 08:30am – 16:30pm, 12:00pm – 20:00pm, 21:30pm – 08:00am (night shift)
If you don’t hear from us within two weeks after the closing date, this will mean the recruitment is completed.
A Disclosure and Barring Services Check (DBS) will be required.
How to apply
To apply for this role, please complete the application form demonstrating how you meet the criteria set out in the Person Specification in the Recruitment Pack. The Recruitment Pack can be accessed via the Job Description tab below and sent to hr@wlh.org.uk
If you have any role-specific questions, these can be emailed through to Alison Govan, Team Leader at a.govan@wlh.org.uk
Closing date: 21/03/2025
Interview date: TBC
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