Health Care Assistant – Hospice at Home

Woking and Sam Beare Hospice is a regional charity organisation working closely with its NHS partners to provide excellent care to patients and their families. Operating from a bespoke building in Goldsworth Park in Woking, the Charity provides inpatient and community services across Northwest Surrey. Goldsworth Park is close to all major road networks and the Hospice offers ample free car parking.

You will be joining a passionate and dedicated team of professionals that make a real difference to the families across the Surrey community. An exciting opportunity has arisen at Woking and Sam Beare Hospice for a Health Care Assistant to join our friendly community specialist palliative care/Hospice at Home team. The team delivers and continues to develop palliative care services for people facing progressive and life-limiting conditions across our catchment area in Northwest Surrey.

Our community team consists of Clinical Nurse Specialists, Associate Clinical Nurse Specialists, Paramedics, Registered Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, and Specialist Doctors. We work closely alongside our therapy team, which includes Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Therapy Assistants. All our patients and carers have access to Counselling services and the Wellbeing unit. The hospice also has a 20-bed Inpatient Unit. The ability to travel in your car to visit patients at home is essential.

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic HCA who is patient-focused and passionate about palliative care. Excellent communication skills and the ability to liaise with patients and staff at all levels are essential.

The hospice is dedicated to staff development and progression opportunities. The team will mentor, invest, develop, teach, and help the candidate achieve their goals along their development journey.

In return for your skills, you can expect to join a caring multidisciplinary team working in a beautiful Hospice in the heart of Northwest Surrey. Our vision is to enable all of those with life-limiting illnesses to live life to the full and to equip them to die with choice and dignity.

Full Time (37.5 hours) or Part-time hours (15 hours or more) will be considered. The role requires participation in a rota covering a 7-day per week service.

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.

We are passionate about our colleagues’ careers. Along with our commitment to provide every colleague with a personal development plan to achieve their vocational goals, we provide the following industry-leading benefits:

• Annual Leave: 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years’ service, rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service. Pro rata for part-time.
• Flexible Working: We fully support flexible working opportunities, including working part-time depending on the role.
• Free Parking: Free parking is available.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): through a company called MetLife who also provide our ‘Death in Service’ benefit. This is a benefit that can be accessed by all of our substantive employees.
• Discounted Complementary Therapies: Our Wellbeing Team offers discounted therapies to all members of staff, including massages and reflexology and Staff Wellbeing Days.
• Blue Light Discount Card: Staff can apply for a Blue Light card that offers discounts across 15,000 retailers.
• On-Site Café: Our Garden Café based at the Hospice in Goldsworth Park offers a range of hot and cold food options, including sandwiches and jacket potatoes. Hot and cold drinks and snacks with a discount offered to all members of staff.