Are you passionate about helping and supportingpeople spend their final days in the place they choose?
If you have significant experience caring forpeople at the end of life in the community, we would love you to bring yourskills and compassion and join our team.
Make a difference when it matters most.
Would you like to make ameaningful difference to people at the end of life? We would love to welcomeHealth Care Assistants with significant care and community experience to ourdedicated Hospice at Home team. This is an opportunity to bring your experienceand compassion to a role supporting people and those close to them.
Job summary
Would you like to make ameaningful difference to people at the end of life? We would love to welcomeHealth Care Assistants with significant care and community experience to ourdedicated Hospice at Home team. This is an opportunity to bring your experienceand compassion to a role supporting people and those close to them.
Main duties of the job
Join Saint Francis Hospice,a dynamic, forward-thinking organisation providing specialist palliative careacross Havering, Brentwood, Barking & Dagenham and Redbridge. Our Hospiceat Home team brings together nurses and Health Care Assistants to providehands-on nursing care and support to individuals and their carers in their ownhomes. Together, we help people in their last few weeks of life remain at hometo die.If you enjoy working as partof a team, communicate well and feel confident working independently withoutsupervision, we would be delighted to hear from you. You will need a flexibleapproach, the ability to travel efficiently and effectively across the hospicecatchment area, and the ability to obtain business-use insurance for yourvehicle.
HOURS37.5 hoursper week full time.
A weekly rota with flexible shift patternconsisting of early, flexi and late shifts.
A willingness to do an occasional night shift ifservice requires.
Service runs 7 days a week. 365 days a year.
Early 0900-1700
Flexi1000-1800
Late1300-2100
Nights2200-0700
About us
We are a dynamic, forward thinking organisation delivering a full range of specialist palliative care services for individuals & their loved ones with palliative or end of life care needs. We achieved Outstanding in our CQC inspection & have reconfigured our services to meet the changing needs of our local community. We support 5 Clinical Commissioning Groups & have a robust governance structure in place. We provide ward clinical services within a modern, personal & friendly 18-bedded unit, as well as Specialist Community Crisis Support Service, Hospice at Home Service & Specialist Day Therapy Service. We also have the hospice Pepperell Education Centre that has an excellent reputation for delivering high quality education programmes and study days.
All communication regarding your application including invitations to interviews will be sent to the email address you have stated on your application form, if you could also provide a contact telephone number as well.
Saint Francis Hospice is a charity based in theUK. We will require all successful candidates to be able to providedocumentary ID proof of their Right to Work in the UK. We are not aLicensed Sponsor, so are unable to provide sponsorship to support applicantsapplying from outside of the UK.
Please note that we are a charity & not part of an NHS Trust & we are situated in a quiet location in the village of Havering-atte-Bower, outskirts of Romford, therefore please consider our location when applying.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as a member of the Hospice at Home team and to provide appropriate palliative nursing care and support to people in their own homes as well as supporting their carers across our catchment area of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Brentwood and Redbridge.
To liaise with other members of the multidisciplinary team Hospice at Home Manager, Hospice at Home Team Co-ordinator, Primary Health Care Team, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Social Care providers.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To provide appropriate physical, emotional and spiritual care in agreement with the individual and family, enabling them to continue to provide nursing care for the individual if that is their wish.
To introduce the hospice services and the ethos of hospice care in the home environment.
To provide care for people with palliative care needs in their own homes in accordance with the individuals care plan as defined by the District Nurse.
To work under the direction of the Hospice at Home Team Manager and in close coordination with senior staff nurses within team as well as external professionals involved in persons care.
Communicates with individuals, carers and health professionals in a professional manner.
To provide physical care complying with moving & handling policy and continually perform risk assessment in the persons home.
To teach, empower and enable families to care for their loved one.
Communicate effectively and appropriately with individuals and carers and liaise with other professionals involved in their care, all working cohesively regarding any clinical decision making to ensure consistent high standard of care for the individual at home.
Recognises changes in palliative care symptoms and conditions and notifies other health care professionals as necessary
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