Health Care Assistant IPU (Twilight)

The post holder will be required to work from 6pm to midnight. This services is required over a 7-day period. You will need to support the effective management of out of hours calls for our community services. You will therefore need to demonstrate your abilities in the following areas: 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., 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 reporting promptly any identified patient or family needs. Under the direction of the registered nurse participate in the assessment, admission, discharge, and handover of patients. 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. To attend relevant training and demonstrate competencies with regards to personal and professional development. To attend and contribute to the clinical supervision sessions and learning programmes provided by the hospice. Participate in the appropriate internal and external education programmes including attendance at mandatory training as required.

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we're all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life-limiting illness and those who care for them, to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease of access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across West Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It's important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people. At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, were all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible
by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. Its important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.