Hospice at Home Health Care Assistant

We are expanding our Hospice at Home service and are seeking compassionate, committed people to join our growing team. This role offers the opportunity to support patients and families in their own homes as the service extends across North Nottinghamshire.

The Hospice at Home service provides care for palliative patients seven days a week, from 7am to 9pm. Shifts include a mix of shorter shifts and 12-hour shifts.

To provide individual high-quality care for patients in their own homes, including appropriate support for families, in line with hospice policy and agreed care plans. Care may include supporting patients while symptoms are assessed and brought under control, caring for the dying, supportive psychosocial and spiritual care in line with any agreed plan, enabling patients independence and supporting discharge home.

Working under the direction of a registered nurse and as part of the Beaumond House team and the End-of-Life Care Together Integrated Hub you will help maintain the standard of excellence, so the philosophy and values of Beaumond House Hospice Care are met.

Beaumond House Hospice supports patients and their loved ones to live as fully as possible across North Nottinghamshire. Ensuring our communities receive the care and comfort they need, free of charge, when every moment matters. Our Care is provided in people's homes across our communities and at the Hospice in Newark.

We treat every person with respect. We deliver compassionate, professional care that supports physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. We look for staff and volunteers who protect dignity, safety, and confidentiality.

Beaumond House Hospice Care is a registered charity. We provide four In-patient beds, Day Therapy, and Hospice at Home Care. Hospice at Home supports people with palliative and end of life care needs, often in the last weeks and months of life. Our nurses and health care assistants provide assessment, personal care, emotional support, advice, and advance care planning in the person's preferred place of care.

We are contactable 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, to provide a friendly ear, general information or to signpost patients, relatives and carers to appropriate resources and services.

Outstanding Hospice Care, enabling our local communities to live well and die well

Job title: Hospice at Home Health Care Assistant

Reports to: Hospice at Home RN

Hours: Part-Time- multiple contracted hour options available

Location: Beaumond House Hospice Care, Newark

We offer a range of established part time contracts of 25.5, 26.25, 27, 27.75, 28.75, 30.12, 30.54, 30.62, and 34.5 hours per week. Applicants should state their preferred contracted hours as part of the application process.

Main Duties

• Work under the direct supervision of the RN and in line with the patient's care plan, providing care to meet fundamental health care needs. This includes assisting patients with toileting, personal care and supporting patients to eat and drink as independently as possible whilst maintaining privacy and dignity at all times.
• After induction and when assessed as competent, undertake visits independently to provide delegated care in line with the written care plan, with clear escalation routes to the RN or Hospice at Home Lead.
• Support patients with medication once you have completed medicines support training and been assessed as competent in line with the hospice medicines policy. This may include prompting, assisting and, where authorised, administering prescribed medication as recorded on the medication administration record, always under the direction of an RN and within your defined level of competence. The post holder will not make clinical decisions about medicines and will escalate any concerns immediately to the RN
• After completion of food hygiene and food safety training, prepare and serve simple meals, snacks and drinks for patients who need this support, following hospice policies on food hygiene, storage, allergens and patient preferences.
• Provide continuing care for patients and families following death. Assist in care after death, respecting spiritual, cultural and religious needs.
• After completing training and a formal competency assessment, carry out verification of expected death in the community for patients known to the service, in line with the Beaumond House Verification of Expected Death policy and local guidance.
• Complete all required documentation and communicate the verification of expected death promptly to the RN, GP, the Integrated Hub and any other relevant professionals, and escalate to the RN or on call clinician if you have any concerns or if the criteria for verification of expected death are not met.
• Support families with practical next steps as appropriate, including liaising with funeral directors in line with hospice guidance.
• Ensure safe custody of the patient's property and follow hospice procedures for recording and handing over valuables.
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