About us:
St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides end of life support to the population of Eastbourne and the surrounding parts of East Sussex, from our stunning hospice building and through our highly skilled community teams. We are rated an ‘outstanding’ provider by the Care Quality Commission and have a clear vision of reaching increasing numbers of local patients and their families, in close collaboration with our community.
We provide a supportive working environment, which is demonstrated through our values: compassionate, professional, progressive, and respectful and these are embedded in our culture. We have a dynamic learning environment that actively promotes and facilitates opportunities for career progression through our competency framework.
We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, candidates from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates and those who have experienced mental health issues.
The Role:
Our people are vital to the future of St Wilfrid’s Hospice and it is essential that we recruit and retain the very best individuals and offer a supportive, engaging, and rewarding working environment.
We are seeking Healthcare Assistants to join our multi-professional team providing palliative nursing care interventions for patients and their families on the IPU. Our Healthcare Assistants are responsible for the observation of patients and the provision of care in accordance with the management plans under the supervision of a Team Leader for patients on the IPU.
These posts provide exciting, challenging and rewarding opportunities for candidates to be part of a supportive and committed team as we move forward into an extended visiting service.
Benefits included:
- We offer a generous holiday entitlement of 27 days per year plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme with the option to continue any existing NHS pension scheme membership
- Discounted cinema tickets
- Employee assistance programmes
- Additional training opportunities
- Supportive working environment
- We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role including; various shift patterns and part time hours.
For more information about what its like to work in a hospice, check out this video from Hospice UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_POidpydZiY
To find out more please contact Nikki Wilson – IPU Nurse Manager at Nikki.Wilson@stwhospice.org
If you have any questions regarding your application please do not hesitate to contact the Human Resources team on 01323 434209 or email recruitment@stwhospice.org
Please note that CV’s will not be accepted, unless candidates are unable to complete our application form due to a disabilit