Bank Healthcare Assistant

Avenue Road, Torquay, TQ2 5LS
Contract Type: Bank
Contract Details: Bank Agreement
Salary: 12.96 per hour (Band A)
Job Category: Inpatient Unit
21/10/2026 - 2 days remaining

Introduction

Bank Healthcare Assistant 

Variable Hours per week depending on service need

Band A : £12.96 per hour


Make your work count! Are you our next Healthcare Assistant to join our Inpatient Unit?

 

If you want to feel personal fulfilment from a career with real meaning, consider Rowcroft Hospice. We offer purposeful work in a uniquely progressive environment.  

 

An opportunity has arisen to join our Inpatient Unit as a Bank Healthcare Assistant where you will help to care for and support our patients as part of our multidisciplinary team. 

 

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role you will need to have excellent customer service skills, experience in a patient or customer facing role and an NVQ level 2 or equivalent in care.

 

You will be driven by our cause and will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment as part of a close team – to deliver on our strategy takes real teamwork, energy and passion, no two days are ever the same! 

 

What’s in it for you? 

At Rowcroft we pride ourselves in supporting staff to develop and we offer training. You will be supported and encouraged to innovate and to try new things. Our scope of work and our confident organisational vision creates opportunities for progress and development. We work together with passion and pride in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive and welcoming.  It can be tough. We don’t shy away from that, but you’ll clearly see the importance and impact of your work and feel recognised and part of something remarkable. 

 

Working at Rowcroft Hospice

Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year. Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.

 

For more Information

Please see below to download the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.

 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Michelle Ayling, Inpatient Unit Manager, Cathy Wright or Majella Pearce, Deputy Inpatient Unit Managers, on 01803 210828.

 

Closing date:     11.59pm Wednesday 21st October 2026

Interview date: To Be Confirmed


 

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Overview

Number of Positions
1

Contract Type
Bank

Contract Details
Bank Agreement

Salary
12.96 per hour (Band A)

Job Category
Inpatient Unit

Location
Avenue Road, Torquay

Reference
rowcroftcareers/TP/109/118