Healthcare Assistant - In-Patient Unit in Watford

Employee benefits overview

At Rennie Grove Peace, we are committed to creating a workplace where our staff can develop their careers and make a real difference.

A summary of benefits is below:

Competitive salaries

Generous holiday entitlement

Health Cash Plan

Salary£24,784.50 per annum (pro rata)

LocationPeace Hospice, Watford

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 18 days at 12:00 BST.

The Vacancy

Healthcare Assistant - Inpatient Unit

• Hours:Full time (37.5 hours per week)
• Location:Watford Peace Hospice
• Salary:£24,784.50 per annum (pro rata)
• Closing date:19 October 2026 at 12 noon
• Interview date:27 October 0226

These roles are to support the Inpatient Unit and is required over a 7-day period. You will work thirteen 11.5 hour worked shifts in a month (plus 1 hour unpaid break). You will need to support the effective management of out of hours calls for our community services.

You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas:

• Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
• Deliver high quality specialist palliative and end of life care as part of the Inpatient Unit multidisciplinary team.
• Under the direction of a multi skilled team, support the assessment, planning, and evaluation of individualised patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients' ever-changing needs.
• To support the smooth running of a shift, ensuring staff and patients are safe.
• To support the management of calls (call handling service) for all our community services.
• As a member of the wider organisation, demonstrate delivery of the agreed vision and values.

What you will need

• All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• Manual handling and/or heavy lifting.
• Disclosure and Barring Services Check: Enhanced Check
• A good level of IT literacy is required, including confidence in using Microsoft Office applications, email, and other digital systems relevant to the role.
• Please note, we do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimum hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
• Previous applicants need not apply.

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we're all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life-limiting illness and those who care for them, to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease of access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across West Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It's important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.

If successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.

For an informal chat about this role please contact Erin Beer, Inpatient Unit Services Lead - erin.beer@renniegrovepeace.org

Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time, therefore we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

Our commitment to equality and diversity

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection processes and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.

If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

The Company

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we’re all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It’s important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.

At Rennie Grove Peace, we are committed to creating a workplace where our staff can develop their careers and make a real difference.

A summary of benefits is below:

We offer competitive salaries

All roles are benchmarked against the external market and against the NHS pay structure for Clinical employees.

Plan your future with our Pension scheme options

Standard Life scheme with matched contributions; up to 7% (with a min of 4% employee contribution) or options for continuation in the NHS pension scheme for eligible staff.

Protected with Life Assurance

2x salary paid in the event of death for eligible employees up to age 75.

Family friendly policies

Including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay.Pro-rata for part time roles.

We pay professional registration fees for eligible employees in clinical roles

We reimburse your travel expenses

Eligible employees can claim travel expenses for mileage that qualifies for payment (subject to HMRC rules).

Additional employee discounts available

Including retail, entertainment and services discounts, including the Blue LightCard (subject to purchase ofmembership).

Achieving a work-life balance is important. We want you to enjoy your work and take valuable time out to relax and be with your loved ones. We enable this through the following:

Flexible working

Including hybrid, part time, job share (depending on role requirements).

Generous holiday entitlement

27 days per annum, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 30 days at 5 years and 33 days at 10 years’ service. (Pro-rata for part-time roles)

Birthday leave

Religious holidays

We are mindful of individual requests.

Your health and wellbeing is important, and we offer you options to support you in maintaining your health.

Health Cash Plan

• Rennie Grove Peace funded membership for you and up to four children.
• Membership can be extended to include your partner, at the employee’s expense.
• Including financial support for health screening, prescriptions, dental/optical, diagnostic tests/consultations, physiotherapy, chiropody, complementary/alternative therapies, as well as virtual GP services and discounted health club membership (subject to eligibility).
• Employee Assistance Programme – free 24/7 confidential service, offering unlimited access to advice, information, coaching and counselling, where appropriate.

Additional rules apply, these can be discussed with you.

We are committed in supporting your personal growth and development and we provide a range of opportunities, including:

• Comprehensive induction programme to help you settle in quickly.
• Regular development conversations with your Line Manager.
• Training and development opportunities including externally funded courses and coaching, where appropriate.
• Specialist palliative training for clinicians and non-clinicians.
• Clinical supervision training and mentoring for clinicians.
• Protected and dedicated time given to learning and developing.
• Employee Voice – fantastic opportunities to join collaborative focus groups.
• Opportunity to develop through our exciting programme of fundraising events and social occasions.

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