Hospice at Home Health Care Assistant

5 months ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Hospice at Home Health care Assistant will complement the Hospice at Home Community Team, providing direct care and support to patients with complex palliative care needs within their own home in the last stages of life. The aim of the role is to provide any necessary
support including personal hygiene care, assisting with dressing and all agreed care under the supervision and guidance of the Band 6 Coordinator. Predominately this will be for patients who
wish to be cared for at home. The post holder will be expected to work alone with access to professional advice and guidance when required. The post holder will have specialist palliative care skills in order to support the patient, carers and family.
The post holder will have a strong working relationship with other community teams. The post holder will work with the coordinator and the multidisciplinary team, they will also liaise with multiple stakeholders in order to ensure that the day to day co-ordination and delivery of service is in a timely and professional manner.
The post holder will play a key role in ensuring that the patient remains in their place of choice and where possible any hospital admission is avoided.

The main duties for this post will be visiting patients in their own home across the whole of Gateshead. Offering agreed packages of personalised care. This will include support will all activities of daily living washing dressing as well as emotional support to patient and families and some domestic work. A flexible approach to the working day will be required due to the fluctuating needs of the service.

Full details of the job requirements can be found in the attached job description.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
- Have the ability to prioritise appropriately, based on clinical need as directed by the caseload holder and/or locality lead
- Work collaboratively as a team member with colleagues, recognising and valuing each person’s contribution to the team.
- Plan and organise the working environment to maximise on health, safety and clinical interventions.
- .Flexible and adaptability according to patient and service need

Physical Skills (manual dexterity)
- Daily use of a keyboard and VDU requiring frequent periods of concentration
- Accurate record keeping including medical terminology.
- Able to independently drive to a variety of settings within Gateshead to meet patient and service need. Ability to get in and out of a vehicle on a frequent daily basis.
- Be able to assist in the therapeutic interventions according to Trust Moving and

Handling policy e.g. supporting transfer techniques.
- Bending and moving and handling will be a frequent daily occurrence



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