# Healthcare Assistant, Hospice at Home

**Company**: Saint Francis Hospice
**Location**: Romford
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £25800.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a compassionate and experienced Healthcare Assistant to join our Hospice at Home team.

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will provide physical, emotional, and spiritual care to individuals in their own homes, supporting them and their carers during their final days.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide palliative nursing care and support to individuals in their own homes

- Liaise with other members of the multidisciplinary team, including Hospice at Home Manager, Hospice at Home Team Co-ordinator, Primary Health Care Team, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and Social Care providers

- Introduce the hospice services and ethos of hospice care in the home environment

- Provide care for people with palliative care needs in their own homes in accordance with individual care plans

- Work under the direction of the Hospice at Home Team Manager and in close coordination with senior staff nurses and external professionals

**Responsibilities**

- Provide physical care, complying with moving and handling policy, and continually perform risk assessments in the person's home

- Teach, empower, and enable families to care for their loved one

- Communicate effectively and appropriately with individuals, carers, and health professionals

- Recognise changes in palliative care symptoms and conditions and notify other healthcare professionals as necessary

- Support individuals with the self-administration of prescribed oral medication

- Undertake regular monitoring of syringe pump function and first-line troubleshooting

- Monitor the person's condition and record observations accurately using remote technology and iCare

**Professional Responsibilities**

- Take responsibility for own professional and personal development

- Adhere to the policies and conditions of service of Saint Francis Hospice

- Report accidents/incidents or potential hazards and work in accordance with the Hospice's Health and Safety at Work Policy

**Additional Responsibilities**

- Maintain confidentiality and handle computerised data in accordance with the Data Protection Act

- Participate in audits, surveys, or other clinical governance activities as requested

**Person Specification**

- Significant relevant care experience

- Palliative care experience

- Experience of working as part of a team

- IT skills/experience required

**Working Conditions**

- 37.5 hours per week, full-time

- Flexible shift pattern, including early, flexi, and late shifts

- Occasional night shifts may be required

- Service runs 7 days a week, 365 days a year

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## Skills

### Required
- palliative care
- communication
- teamwork
- IT skills

### Nice to have
- experience of working in a specialist palliative care setting
- experience of working in a community setting
- Microsoft Office

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