Healthcare Assistant Carmarthenshire
Job description
We are looking for four enthusiastic Healthcare Assistants to join the Marie Curie team covering Carmarthenshire!
Title: Healthcare Assistant
Salary: £22,720 per annum
Hours: Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Based: Carmarthenshire
Closing date: 20th September 2023
Interview date: TBC
What we are looking for:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic Health Care Assistant to join our team in Carmarthenshire. You will deliver care and support to patients with a terminal diagnosis in the last days of life whilst also offering vital emotional support for their families.
With experience of End-of-Life care, you're ready and able to make a real difference. Ours is a one-to-one approach to care, so you're sure to enjoy plenty of meaningful contact with patients and their families - usually in their own homes. Working without close supervision, you'll have the opportunity to use your own initiative in line with the patient's established care plan. You'll be required to carry out a range of care duties including helping patients meet their hygiene needs, monitoring symptoms, assisting with medications, and keeping detailed records and emotional support to the patient and their families.
The ability to drive with access to a vehicle insured for business use is essential for this role.
What’s in it for you:
- Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
- Continuous development
- Industry leading training programmes
- Employee Assistance Programme Flexible Working
For more information or an informal chat please contact Llinos Trotman via email on [email protected] or telephone on 01554 77344
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
This role will be subject to receiving a satisfactory criminal record check, requires driving, and involves shift work working days, evening and nights.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.
