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Job summary

Main area
Palliative Care
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 20 hours per week (Worked over care shifts in patients homes, rotational nights and days)
Job ref
287-AMED-148-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Woodlands Hospice - Community Based Role
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/09/2024 23:59

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Healthcare Assistant - Hospice at Home

Band 3

Job overview

Healthcare Assistant - Hospice at Home

Band 3

Part time - 20 hours per week

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Care Assistant to join our Hospice at Home team. The team provide care and support to patients with palliative care needs, and their families, alongside existing primary care services across South Sefton in the patient's own home. 

It is essential that applicants have a relevant NVQ Level 3 and previous experience of working as a Healthcare Assistant in a community setting, along with a valid full UK driver’s licence and access to their own car for business purposes.

The successful applicant will be supported to complete the Care Certificate as part of their induction.

This post involves shift work over 7 days, and rotation between nights and days will be required.

**Please note this vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received**

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team and will assist and support the community clinical team(s). This will include working as within the patient’s home environment to provide care and support to patients with palliative care needs, and their families. 

The Hospice at Home service supports the family and patient to enable the patient to remain at home in their preferred place of care towards the end of their life. It is supplementary to any CHC package of care, and provides HCA care shifts or sits, for extended periods of time providing 1:1 care for palliative patients, supporting the family to have a break from their carer role during these periods. 

The post holder would be expected to undertake a range of patient interventions within the scope of NVQ level 3 skills as determined by the needs of the individual patient.  The successful applicant will be required to work unsupervised as a lone worker in the patient's own home caring for patients with a range of palliative care needs, in the last months, days and hours of their lives.  Excellent communication skills are essential for this role, both with patients and families, the wider specialist palliative care MDT, and when collaborating with primary care teams caring for the patient. 

The post holder may at times be required to provide support and cover as a Band 3 HCA for the specialist palliative care inpatient unit based at Woodlands Hospice. 

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.


The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.


The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.


To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf 
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of this role and its requirements. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous health and social care experience or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of the principles of Data Protection Act
  • Health and Safety
  • Equality and Diversity

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to work without direct supervision.
  • Able to plan own workload
  • Ability to undertake clinical interventions commensurate with NVQ level 3 skills
  • Able to work as a team member
  • Excellent developed oral and written communication skills
  • Able to keep accurate written and electronic contemporaneous records
  • Able to work in a confidential and sensitive manner
  • Able to travel for work purposes
  • Basic computer skills/ECDL or equivalent

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident committedStep into health

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tracey Taylor
Job title
Hospice At Home Coordinator
Telephone number
0151 529 8672
Additional information

For further information about this role, please contact the Hospice at Home Clinical Coordinator on 0151 529 8672. 

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