Employer: University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hospice at Home Macmillan Unit, Christchurch Hospital
Town: Christchurch
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/12/2024 23:59
Hospice at Home Health Care Support Workers
NHS AfC: Band 3
As University Hospitals Dorset, we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches, you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth, and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
Job overview
Would you like to work for an innovation team? The Hospice at Home Team cares for patients in the last 2 - 4 weeks of life at home within Bournemouth and Christchurch. We are looking to expand our current Hospice at Home Service to include the Poole conurbation. If you are an enthusiastic, compassionate, motivated Health Care Assistant looking to provide excellent end of life care, why not come and join us? This is an amazing opportunity to be a part of a reputable service and make a difference to many families.
The Hospice at Home service is a 24 hour/7 days a week service, based at the Macmillan Unit, Christchurch Hospital, predominantly visiting patients and families in their own homes to provide end of life care. Candidates will need to be able to drive and have a current UK licence, have experience in the care environment, with the confidence to work independently and be flexible with working patterns to include nights. There will be an induction for any training requirements on starting.
Main duties of the job
1. Work independently and assist in carrying a caseload under the supervision of a senior nurse, performing tasks according to specialist nursing need/assessment at end-of-life.
2. Provide essential holistic, high-quality nursing care as directed by individualised care plans in the patient’s own environment, respecting their backgrounds and beliefs.
3. Provide hands-on practical care and emotional support to patients and their families/carers, reporting any changes to the senior nurse.
4. Prepare the patient’s environment for care at home, maintaining their dignity and privacy, and ensure a safe working environment for patients, families, staff, and colleagues.
5. Recognise the Equality and Diversity of patients, relatives, and MDT groups, by supporting non-discriminatory practice and acknowledging the patient’s personal culture, beliefs, and identity.
Person specification
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively (to understand and be understood)
* IT Literate
* Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative
* Understanding of basic end of life symptoms and physiology
* Confidence in the use of EPR, CHIE, DCR
Qualifications
* Current UK driving License
* Completion of competency-based Care certificate including workbook equivalent to level 3 or equivalent
* Good standard of Numeracy and Literacy
* Short Courses to undertake patient and clinical care duties in End of life care
Experience
* Minimum of 1 year experience of working as a Health Care Support Worker in End of Life Care within a hospital or community setting
* Understanding and recognition of the need for personal resilience in Palliative and End of Life Care
* Previous experience of working within a care environment/NHS
* Experience of working within patients' homes
* Ability to recognise and record changes in the dying patient, preparing their family members and carers in a time-sensitive and supportive manner
Knowledge
* Understanding and experience in end of life care
* Understanding of basic patient care
* Understanding of the importance of promoting health and well-being
* Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, and relevant legislation particularly in end of life care
* Knowledge of relevant treatments and terminology in palliative care
* Aware of National and local guidance on palliative care conditions
Personal Attributes
* Open and approachable
* Motivated
* Understands limits of own responsibility
Please note: Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While this vaccination is not a condition of employment, we encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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