Healthcare Assistant

Are you caring and compassionate? would you like to make a difference to people needing end of life care?

A rare opportunity has arisen to join the Hospice inpatient unit as a Healthcare support worker. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team based within Salisbury's Specialist Palliative care Services, the Hospice inpatient unit provide high quality palliative and end of life care to those who need it.

We are inviting applications from candidates with empathy and understanding, looking to develop their skills and knowledge surrounding specialist Palliative care and end of life care. Candidates will need to work flexibly within the team providing social, emotional, psychological and wider well\-being care to our patients and their families.

Please note: we are unable to provide sponsorship for this position.

Main duties include supporting patients with personal care needs. Promoting dignity and respect to patients throughout their admission with us.

Working alongside the MDT to ensure each patient receives high quality, person centred care at all times whist living with a life limiting illness. All members of the team are also expected to work closely with and support their patients loved ones and family members as they too, navigating supporting someone with a life limiting illness.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics \& Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On\-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.

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