Senior Healthcare Assistant - Hospice at Home

Introduction

‘It is a privilege to enter a home and support a patient and their loved ones’

Make your work count! Could you be our next Senior Healthcare Assistant that could join our team and help us to provide care to patients at the end of their lives?

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.

Hospice at Home is passionate about providing the highest quality of care and support to a patient and their loved ones. Our Senior Healthcare Assistants (SHCAs) work as part of a caring, inclusive and supportive team all of whom have the same passion, compassion and knowledge to give them the confidence to go into people’s homes and go that extra mile to support both the patient and their loved ones at a difficult and precious time.

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role you will need to have extensive experience in caring and have an NVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care or the equivalent and be passionate about providing excellent quality palliative care to people in their own homes. You would need to have excellent communication skills, work well on your own but also within a very supportive team.

You would be working shifts to cover 7 days a week.

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?

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. And 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 see clearly see the importance and impact of your work and feel recognised and part of something remarkable.

We provide free parking on site, free uniforms, excellent induction, meaningful appraisals and the encouragement to develop your skills and progress your career if you wish.

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.

Take a look here to find out what our team says about working at Rowcroft and the employee benefits on offer.

For more Information

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

For more information or an informal discussion about the role please contact Karenne Weaver, Head of Community and Hospice at Home, on 01803 217638 or email karenne.weaver@rowcrofthospice.org.uk

Closing date:        11:59 pm Sunday 23 February 2025

Interview date:    Thursday 6 March 2025