Healthcare Assistant; Overnight Service

Are you a compassionate and dedicated Healthcare Assistant looking for a role where your care can make a meaningful difference every day? Join our community team in in Birmingham and Solihull and help provide personalised, dignified end‑of‑life care to people in the comfort of their own homes.

In this rewarding role, you will work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, helping people feel safe, comfortable and respected at a highly important time in their lives. You will support individual care plans by assisting with personal care, skin integrity, nutrition and hydration, mobility, rest and sleep, and maintaining a clean and safe care environment.

You will also play an important part in observing and responding to changes in a persons condition, supporting symptom management within the agreed care plan, and escalating any concerns promptly to registered healthcare professionals. Just as importantly, you will offer calm, sensitive and professional communication to patients and those important to them, helping to preserve dignity, choice and wellbeing.

If you are kind, caring and passionate about person‑centred care, this is an opportunity to use your experience to support people and families when it matters most. We would love to hear from you.

Marie Curie is the UKs leading end‑of‑life charity. We are the largest non‑NHS provider of end‑of‑life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end‑of‑life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they are likely to die from.

We provide free specialist care and support to people with terminal illnesses whilst offering vital emotional support for their families. It's all about giving them the best possible quality of life. The support we offer is tailored to meet individuals' medical, social, spiritual and emotional needs.

The care and support we provide is highly valued by the people we care for and their loved ones, but at present we are only reaching around 10% of dying people at the end of life. Right now, one in four people in the UK with a terminal illness, do not get the care or support they deserve at the end of their lives.

We want a different society than the one we live in now. Our mission for the next five years is to close the gap in the number of people missing out on what they need at the end‑of‑life.

Contract: Permanent or 12-month fixed‑term, 37.5 hours per week.

Shifts: Night shifts, 10:00 pm7:00 am, Monday to Sunday, including bank holidays.

Salary: £25,272 per annum on the Marie Curie Band 2 pay scale (aligned with Agenda for Change), plus enhancements of up to 41% for nights and Saturdays, and up to 83% for Sundays and bank holidays.

Location: Community-based across Birmingham and Solihull.

• Recent experience of providing care in a health or social care setting, with the confidence to support people with dignity, compassion and respect.
• An understanding of person‑centred care, ideally in palliative or end‑of‑life settings, and a commitment to supporting people and those who matter to them.
• The ability to communicate with sensitivity and professionalism, and to recognise when concerns or changes in a persons condition should be escalated to the wider clinical team.
• A caring, adaptable and resilient approach, with the confidence to work independently as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.
• Basic IT…