Healthcare Assistant - Hospice (Bank)NHS

Job summary

Are you a caring and dedicated individual looking to make a real difference in people's lives?

Mountbatten Hospice is seeking Healthcare Assistants to join our Inpatient Unit team. In this rewarding role, our HCAs work alongside registered nurses to provide outstanding person-centred care to patients with life-limiting illnesses, ensuring they receive the highest levels of comfort, dignity and support.

This is an opportunity to be part of a skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team, helping patients and their families during some of the most important moments of their lives.

If you are passionate about caring for others and want to make a genuine difference every day, we'd love to hear from you.

Hours to be worked flexibly including weekends, bank holidays, evenings/nights on a shift rota basis.

*Please note: we are not part of the NHS, and as such we do not hold a licence to enable visa sponsorship*

Main duties of the job

About the role:

Our Healthcare Assistants support the registered nursing team in providing the care and support to our patients on the Inpatient Unit at our Hospice. Working as part of the designated care team, they support the registered nurses in promoting and providing patient centred care, ensuring at all times the comfort, dignity and privacy of the patients in our care.

About you:

You will be qualified to Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate and have previous care experience. The role will be part of a dedicated team of professionals, who will also be able to work under their own initiative to ensure the highest standard of care. A can-do attitude with strong communication skills will be required.

You will be required to deliver a high standard of direct patient care, assisting the patient in all activities of daily living, with both direct and indirect supervision as delegated by the qualified nurse.

Job description

Promote a patient centred approach to care delivery by assisting patients in all daily living activities, as required by the nursing team and the patients care requirements, ensuring any changes in a patients condition is reported immediately to a registered nurse

Ensure patient comfort, dignity and privacy is maintained at all times and report any concerns to the nursing team.

Assist in the monitoring of patients blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, peak flow and oxygen saturation on completion of the internal training day and competency pack.

Obtain specimens of body fluids as requested by the qualified nurse on completion of the internal training day and competency pack

Escort patients to hospital and other appointments as requested

Maintain high standards of care in an environment which promotes equality and sensitivity for all individuals

Organise and provide patients meals and drinks as required, ensuring all dietary and medical needs of the patient are followed, raising any concerns with the registered nurse

Maintain a safe environment for all patients and colleagues across Mountbatten, reporting any concerns to the registered nurse

The postholder will be required to practice safe infection control methods at all times in accordance with Mountbatten policy and the required competency standards as a Healthcare Assistant

Be aware and practice safe manual handling in accordance with Mountbatten policy, in accordance with the required competencies and only when the relevant Moving and Handling training has been completed

Ensure that all general aspects of supporting the welfare of the patient(s) are provided, including ordering meals, changing and making beds and providing personal care as required

Please refer to the attached Job Description, which includes the Person Specification, for the full duties and responsibilities of this role.

About us

Mountbatten Hampshire is part of the Mountbatten Group, and its sister Hospice is Mountbatten Isle of Wight.

We pride ourselves on providing expert care and support to our communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, who are facing death, dying and bereavement.

Our vision at Mountbatten is of a world where all dying people and those closest to them, have access to expert care of the highest quality, provided by compassionate and professional teams.

Our Values

We care about what we do. We appreciate that people are different and we are kind and compassionate to our patients and families, to our local community and to each other

We are experts in our field. We are professional at all times, aspiring to be the best that we can be in everything that we do

We are innovative and bold. We respond quickly and creatively to the changing needs of our society within the scope of our human and financial resources

We respect our community. We exist for our local population, now and into the future, and we believe that we can achieve more together by working in partnership with others