Healthcare Assistant, Ward Crawley, West Sussex, South East England, England
Job description
JOB TITLE:Healthcare Assistant, Ward
CONTRACT TYPE:Permanent
DEPARTMENT:Ward
HOURS:37.5 hours per week, part time hours will be considered
SALARY:£20,319 - £22,874 depending on experience
CLOSING DATE:29 June 2023
INTERVIEW DATE:4 July 2023
Are you an enthusiastic, caring, and compassionate individual looking for your next challenge? Would you find it rewarding to provide care and make a difference when it matters most? Then our Bank Healthcare Assistant role might be for you!
You will be working in our Ward where you will assist the registered nurses in delivering essential, hands on, and personalised care for our patients. This is a great time to join us ahead of our move towards a new, larger hospice at Pease Pottage in 2023.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, a professional demeanour and display a commitment to providing a high standard of care to our patients. An NVQ 3 in Health/Social care or relevant experience in Care work is an advantage but not essential as full training will be given. Candidates should have a sound understanding of health and safety procedures and infection prevention & control.
This is a great time to join us ahead of our move towards a new, larger hospice at Pease Pottage in 2023.
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This post is offered on a full time basis, working 37.5 hour per week. Part time hours will also be considered.
When applying for this vacancy, please submit a covering letter or add a note to your application, explaining why you would like to work for St Catherines Hospice.
When you join St Catherines, youll be joining a supportive team all working towards a big ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. If that sounds like something youd find fulfilling, please apply today.
Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:
- 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service to 30 days + public holidays
- Option to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave
- Day off for volunteering
- Day off for moving house
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye test vouchers
- Generous Pension Up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension
- Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
- Life Assurance 4x basic salary
- Pay enhancement of unsocial hours
- Flu Jabs
- Counselling Offering
- Discounted Gym
- Schwartz rounds
- Wellbeing Supervision (aka clinical supervision)
- Career pathway and progression
If this role sounds like it could be for you, please apply now.
Please upload either your CV or St Catherine's Hospice application form where it asks you to upload your resume, there is no need to complete both.
If you don't have a CV and would like to submit an application form, this can be found here.
Whilst it is not yet a requirement to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, we encourage all applicants to be fully vaccinated as this may be a requirement of the role going forward.
This role is subject to a Enhanced DBS check. By applying you are confirming you have read the Enhanced Check Privacy Policy for applicants https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-privacy-policies and understand how DBS will process my personal data and the options available to me for submitting an application.
We are located in Malthouse Road, Crawley, West Sussex, which is within commuting distance from Brighton and London and just a 5-minute walk from Crawley railway station. In Autumn of 2023 we will be relocating to Pease Pottage where this role will then be based.
