Healthcare Assistant
St Catherine’s Hospice
Pease Pottage, RH11 9SLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£24,887 to £27,054
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
27 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
PLEASE APPLY FOR THIS ROLE DIRECTLY ON OUR WEBSITE BY PASTING THE LINK BELOW: https://stcatherineshospice.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=0...
We are seeking a compassionate individual with experience delivering care and excellent communication skills. If you have an understanding of health and safety procedures, working with dignity and respect and the ability to work under your own initaitive, we would love to hear from you.
Candidates with a Care Certificate, NVQ, or experience in a hospice setting are encouraged to apply, although this is not essential for the role.
This post is offered on a full time, permanent, basis, working 37.5 hours per week. We operate a 24 hour service, 7 days a week, these hours are worked on a shift basis, including day and night shifts.
- Working as part of an integrated team of nurses and nursing assistants delivering high quality, individualised care to patients
- Assisting with individual personal hygiene routines including washing, dressing, mouth care and toileting
- To take and record agreed clinical observations and to identify and report any significant changes
- To promote a welcoming, clean and appropriate environment for the care of patients and their families, with awareness of individual physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs.
St Catherines Hospice is a respected local charity providing specialist hospice care alongside statutory service partners (GPs, District nursing etc) across West Sussex and East Surrey.
We provide care in communities across Surrey and Sussex which are richly diverse and we want to reflect that in everything we do. We celebrate and support difference and welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you believe in the importance of what we do, share our values and want to be a part of an outstanding team building something important, wed love to hear from you.
Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:
- Generous annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 days with length of service, plus Bank Holidays, and an opportunity to buy / sell annual leave days. Plus we offer a day off for volunteering & moving house.
- Generous Pension scheme with up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension.
- Life Assurance Scheme, Counselling Offering, and a range of discounts.
- Enhanced maternity and adoption pay.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of caring
- Awareness of health and safety procedures and infection prevention and control and how they affect people in the workplace
- Excellent professional communication skills.
- Awareness of ways that may help to overcome barriers to communication (dementia, sensory disability, confusion, non English speaking, etc.)
- Ability to use own initiative to plan own work for the shift in order to meet the needs of a given group of patients.
- Ability to work as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
- An understanding of basic nutrition needs
- Able to demonstrate methods of promoting dignity
- Communication skills (both verbal and written) proficient in English.
- Be able to effectively communicate with compassion and understanding with people on a variety of levels using tact, diplomacy, and empathy
- Ability to undertake training and direct own learning
Desirable
- Experience of delivering care to patients within a Hospice, Hospital
- Community or Care Home
- An understanding of the nature of hospice work, and an ability to seek support for his/herself as a result of distressing circumstances
Qualifications
Essential: - General good level of literacy and numeracy
Desirable: - Care Certificate; - NVQ 2/3 in Health/Social care or equivalent
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
9 October 2026
Last checked
13 October 2026
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