Hospice at Home Care Assistant

Do you have experience working with babies, children, or young people with complex needs? Are you seeking to start or develop your career in health care in a rewarding role where no two days are the same? Do you hold an NVQ in care? If so, this role could be for you

Here at Rainbows Children’s Hospice, we provide specialist palliative care and end-of-life support to over 750 Babies, Children, and Young People living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, as well as approximately 3,000 people, including families, siblings, and carers, across the East Midlands. Simply put, we’re here to brighten short lives and support families, wherever they are.

Due to the expansion of our Hospice at Home team, we are currently seeking **two Hospice at Home Care Assistants** to support our nurses on home visits. As a Hospice at Home Care Assistant, you will be an integral part of **Rainbows' Hospice at Home Team**, delivering high-quality clinical care to babies, children, and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in the comfort of their own homes.

Your role will include supporting families by providing respite care and emotional support, as well as assisting in the delivery of **palliative and end-of-life care**. This is a truly meaningful position where you will make a real difference to the lives of families at the most difficult times, working closely with our nursing team to ensure compassionate, person-centred care. Within this role you will receive on the job training, working alongside an experienced Nurse, learning clinical skills as well as non-clinical skills of memory making, providing families with keep sakes of their baby, child or young person.

**Location**: Based at Rainbows Hospice with the requirement to travel across the East Midlands, covering Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. Therefore, a driving license is required for this role.

**Hours of work**: Monday to Sunday 8.00am to 6.00pm. Please note flexibility is required to meet the needs of families, including occasional work outside normal hours such as staying on shift due to end of life needs.

**Our Benefits**

In addition to Agenda for Change pay scales, we offer a range of benefits including:

- Opportunity for current NHS pension scheme members to transfer their membership
- Shift enhancements for unsociable hours
- Established Training programme that will enable you to comply with NMC registration
- Specialist training and development opportunities and working within a supportive team which specialist knowledge
- Time to care for patients: Each baby, child and young person has 1:1 care
- Eligibility to join blue light card discount scheme and Company Shop.
- Healthcare Cashback plan.
- Life Assurance.
- 27 days holiday
- Plus bank holiday allowance but expectation to work bank holidays in this role.
- Contributory pension scheme
- Free access to an employee assistance programme
- Affordable meals at the Hospice, Lark Rise, Loughborough.
- Free Tea, Coffee and Fruit whilst at the Hospice
- Wellbeing support and access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Unofficial benefits: Fun events, All staff away days, Guest visitors

**About the role**

Some of the key responsibilities include (but not limited to):

- To provide support alongside a Nurse in delivering excellent short break, palliative and end of life care within the home,
- To report to the Lead Nurse any concerns surrounding the care, condition or behaviour of the baby, child, young person and/or family.
- To ensure all procedures are carried out in accordance with local and national policies in force within the Hospice.
- To contribute positively to the establishment of good communication and relations between staff and take personal responsibility for adherence to the same.
- To ensure accurate and contemporaneous record keeping and observe confidentiality of such records at all time.

Further requirements can be found by downloading the Job Description.

**Requirements**:

- Hold a UK driving licence
- NVQ Level 2/3 in care or equivalent experience
- Experience with children and/or young people (0-25 years) with complex needs
- Experience of liaising with families and/or health care providers regarding child/young person care

Further requirements can be found by downloading the Person Specification.