Bank Hospice at Home Healthcare Assistant

Bank Hospice at Home Healthcare Assistant

Beaumond House Hospice Care delivers personalised, high-quality end of life care across hospice, home, and community settings. Patients and families remain at the centre of everything we do. All staff are expected to uphold dignity, safety, confidentiality, and the highest standards of physical, psychological, and spiritual care.

This role sits within the End-of-Life Care Together Alliance and operates across organisational boundaries to deliver safe, coordinated, and person-centred care for people in North Nottinghamshire.

This role will be based at Beaumond House Hospice Care, Newark and community settings across North Nottinghamshire.

We’ll be reviewing applications as they come in, so don’t delay applying! Although the closing date is 28 February 2026, we may close the vacancy early if we find the right candidates. We’ll be in touch with shortlisted applicants.

Role Purpose

To provide individual high-quality care for patients in their own homes, including appropriate support for families, in line with hospice policy and agreed care plans. Care may include supporting patients while symptoms are assessed and brought under control, caring for the dying, supportive psychosocial and spiritual care in line with any agreed plan, enabling patients independence and supporting discharge home.

Working under the direction of a registered nurse and as part of the Beaumond House team and the End-of-Life Care Together Integrated Hub you will help maintain the standard of excellence, so the philosophy and values of Beaumond House Hospice Care are met.

Beaumond House Hospice supports patients and their loved ones to live as fully as possible across North Nottinghamshire. Ensuring our communities receive the care and comfort they need, free of charge, when every moment matters. Our Care is provided in people's homes across our communities and at the Hospice in Newark.

We treat every person with respect. We deliver compassionate, professional care that supports physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. We look for staff and volunteers who protect dignity, safety, and confidentiality.

Beaumond House Hospice Care is a registered charity. We provide four In-patient beds, Day Therapy, and Hospice at Home Care. Hospice at Home supports people with palliative and end of life care needs, often in the last weeks and months of life. Our nurses and health care assistants provide assessment, personal care, emotional support, advice, and advance care planning in the persons preferred place of care.

We are contactable 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, to provide a friendly ear, general information or to signpost patients, relatives and carers to appropriate resources and services.

Outstanding Hospice Care, enabling our local communities to live well and die well.

Main Duties

Work under the direct supervision of the RN and in line with the patients care plan, providing care to meet fundamental health care needs. This includes assisting patients with toileting, personal care and supporting patients to eat and drink as independently as possible whilst maintaining privacy and dignity at all times.

Following induction and assessment of competence, the post holder undertakes delegated visits independently in line with written care plans, with clear escalation routes to the Registered Nurse or Hospice at Home Lead.

Medication support is provided following completion of medicines support training and competency assessment, in line with hospice medicines policy. This includes prompting, assisting, and where authorised, administering prescribed medicines as recorded on the medication administration record. The post holder does not make clinical decisions regarding medicines and escalates concerns immediately to the Registered Nurse.

Following completion of food hygiene and food safety training, the post holder prepares and serves simple meals, snacks, and drinks in accordance with hospice policies on food hygiene, allergens, storage, and patient preferences.

Provide care for patients and families following death. Assist in care after death,…