Hours and location
- Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
- Location: Watford Peace Hospice
- Closing date: 10 August 2026 at 12 noon
- Interview date: TBC
Job summary
Healthcare Assistant / Twilight Healthcare Assistant – Inpatient Unit
- Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
- Location: Watford Peace Hospice
- Salary: £24,784.50 per annum (pro rata)
- Closing date: 10 August 2026 at 12 noon
- Interview date: TBC
These roles are to support the Inpatient Unit and is required over a 7-day period. You will need to support the effective management of out of hours calls for our community services.
This role will suit someone who:
- This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with experience in a health and social care setting to join the Inpatient Unit Team.
- This role is to support from 6pm to midnight and would suit someone looking for full or part time hours.
- This role is to support care for patients and those who are important to them.
- The Inpatient Unit receives calls in the out of hours period from patients or their carers requiring support from our Hospice at Home teams.
Main duties of the job
- Proactively contribute to the delivery of high-quality safe evidence-based care.
- Deliver high quality specialist palliative and end of life care as part of the Inpatient Unit multidisciplinary team.
- Under the direction of a multi skilled team, support the assessment, planning, and evaluation of individualised patient centred care, ensuring a holistic approach that is sensitive and responsive to the patients’ ever-changing needs.
- To support the smooth running of a shift, ensuring staff and patients are safe.
- To support the management of calls (call handling service) for all our community services.
- As a member of the wider organisation, demonstrate delivery of the agreed vision and values.
About us
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, our unique care provides a lifeline of compassion and support to patients, carers, and families facing progressive life-limiting illness. We provide palliative and end of life care support, including bereavement services, within Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire and our patient services are available to adults, as well as patients transitioning into adult services (16 to 25 years.)
Bereavement support is offered for all ages to families of patients and those around them, as well as throughout the community, in schools and workplaces. We are proud to offer care in the place that best suits the individuals needs, whether that’s at home, in a care home, in a short stay in our inpatient unit, out in the community, or in our purpose-built Living Well Centre facilities. As a hospice care charity, we have offered this support, free of charge, for over 40 years.
Our staff team of 340+ includes a wide range of patient-facing disciplines plus operational support based in Watford, Tring, St Albans, Chalfont St Giles and Berkhamsted. The Charity is now one of the larger UK hospice charities, reaching a GP population of 797,037 of whom 75% live in Hertfordshire and 25% in Buckinghamshire.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- To provide care that meets the holistic needs of individual patients and their carers/families, including physical, emotional, spiritual, practical and if appropriate, pre- and post- bereavement needs.
- To work in accordance with the individual patients care plans, observing and promptly reporting any identified patient or family needs.
- Under the direction of the Registered Nurse participate in the assessment, admission, discharge and handover of patients.
- Under the direction of the registered nurse, provide general nursing care to allocated patients.
- This includes bathing, toileting, personal hygiene (i.e. eye, mouth, nail care) and basic observations.
- Under the direction and observation of the registered nurse, and following training and achievement of Rennie Grove and Peace Hospice Care agreed competency frame work, undertake delegated and agreed extended HCA roles, including: o Integrated Palliative Care Outcomes (IPOS) reviews o Monitoring and recording of blood glucose levels o Blood pressure o Oxygen Saturations o Urinalysis o Medicine management awareness practice including syringe driver checks o Phlebotomy and other pathology specimens o Dressing of simple wounds
- Adherence to and updating individualised care plans and ensure that any change relating directly or indirectly to the patients care or wellbeing is promptly and accurately reported to the Staff Nurse or nurse in charge.
- To actively welcome all visitors, especially new patients and their carers, ensuring they are greeted on arrival and informed of the general facilities, unit layout and the various services and information available.
- Participate in team working and maintain effective communications between members of the multidisciplinary team both in the inpatient unit team, and wider Hospice teams.
- Assist with the smooth running of the clinical area by carrying out other duties such as tidying, stock checking, and monitoring and cleaning of equipment and patient areas.
- To be an active participant in the clinical governance framework of the wider hospice, contributing to audits and delegated responsibility for clinical equipment, maintenance/checking/ordering/oxygen.
- Be responsible for Clinical Governance, coordinating, completing and reporting back on delegated routines/duties that contribute to the smooth running of the service.
- To be part of the wider service multidisciplinary team, attending shift handovers, staff meetings and hospice team briefs.
Person Specification
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Care certificate/NVQ qualified level 2 or evidence of working at equivalent or apprenticeship standard in health or social care.
- Previous experience in a health / social care work setting.
- IT experience and willingness to input into an electronic record system following induction training.
- Willing to undertake direction and delegated duties reporting concerns.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective communications at all times.
- An understanding of the importance of Safeguarding adults.
- Sensitivity and understanding to the needs of your team and customers, many of whom may have experienced Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care services or be bereaved.
Desirable
- Experience of supporting palliative / EOLC patients and their families.
- An understanding of palliative and hospice care.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
Address
Peace Hospice
Watford
WD17 3PH
United Kingdom
https://renniegrovepeace.org/ (Opens in a new tab)
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