• Job Description

  Req#: B0271-VA190?language=en&page=325&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  To apply for this vacancy please visit our website using the information below:

  https://www.stch.org.uk/employment/

  Main duties of the job

  Are you keen to provide people with personalised care and support? Are you good at offering comforting words? Are you courageous enough to stand alongside local people and their families as they face the end of life? If youre answering yes, then St Catherines Hospice would love to hear from you.

  Were seeking enthusiastic, caring and compassionate individuals to join our hospice team working on our wards in Crawley.

  The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, a professional demeanour and display a commitment to providing a high standard of care to our patients. An NVQ 3 in Health/Social care or relevant experience in Care work is an advantage but not essential as full training will be given. Candidates should have a sound understanding of health and safety procedures and infection prevention & control.

  About us

  When applying for this vacancy, please submit a covering letter or add a note to your application, explaining why you would like to work for St Catherines Hospice.

  When you join St Catherines, youll be joining a supportive team all working towards abig ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. If that sounds like something youd find fulfilling, please apply today.

  Details

  Date posted

  19 August 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £15.76 an hour (£12.61 + 25% enhancement)

  Contract

  Bank

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  B0271-VA190

  Job locations

  St. Catherines Hospice

  Grace Holland Avenue

  Pease Pottage

  Crawley

  West Sussex

  RH11 9SL

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  JOB PURPOSE

  You'll work as part of an integrated team of nurses and nursing assistants delivering high quality, individualised care to patients referred to St Catherine's Hospice, and their families.

  You'll have the ability to work independently as well as part of a team. Using teamwork and cooperation, you'll contribute to a positive, supportive and professional working environment.

  Under clinical direction, nursing assistants help to deliver high standards of holistic and individualised patient care, embracing the hospice's vision and values.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  JOB PURPOSE

  You'll work as part of an integrated team of nurses and nursing assistants delivering high quality, individualised care to patients referred to St Catherine's Hospice, and their families.

  You'll have the ability to work independently as well as part of a team. Using teamwork and cooperation, you'll contribute to a positive, supportive and professional working environment.

  Under clinical direction, nursing assistants help to deliver high standards of holistic and individualised patient care, embracing the hospice's vision and values.

  Person Specification

  Attitudes and Behaviour

  Essential

  • Reliable, honest, and trustworthy
  • A flexible approach to work and an ability to workday and night shifts.
  • Motivated, enthusiastic and innovative
  • Approachable and adaptable
  • Demonstrates commitment to St Catherine's vision and values.

  Desirable

  • An understanding of the need for self care when working in a palliative care environment

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of caring
  • Awareness of health and safety procedures and infection prevention and control and how they affect people in the workplace
  • Excellent professional communication skills. Awareness of ways that may help to overcome barriers to communication, dementia, sensory disability, confusion, Non English speaking, etc.
  • Ability to use own initiative to plan own work for the shift in order to meet the needs of a given group of patients.
  • Ability to work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
  • An understanding of basic nutrition needs
  • Able to demonstrate methods of promoting dignity
  • Communication skills both verbal and written proficient in English.
  • Be able to effectively communicate with compassion and understanding with people on a variety of levels using tact, diplomacy, and empathy
  • Ability to undertake training and direct own learning

  Desirable

  • Experience of delivering care to patients within a Hospice, Hospital, Community or Care Home
  • An understanding of the nature of hospice work, and an ability to seek support for his/herself as a result of distressing circumstances

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • General good level of literacy and numeracy

  Desirable

  • Care Certificate
  • NVQ 2/3 in Health/Social care or equivalent

  Person Specification

  Attitudes and Behaviour

  Essential

  • Reliable, honest, and trustworthy
  • A flexible approach to work and an ability to workday and night shifts.
  • Motivated, enthusiastic and innovative
  • Approachable and adaptable
  • Demonstrates commitment to St Catherine's vision and values.

  Desirable

  • An understanding of the need for self care when working in a palliative care environment

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of caring
  • Awareness of health and safety procedures and infection prevention and control and how they affect people in the workplace
  • Excellent professional communication skills. Awareness of ways that may help to overcome barriers to communication, dementia, sensory disability, confusion, Non English speaking, etc.
  • Ability to use own initiative to plan own work for the shift in order to meet the needs of a given group of patients.
  • Ability to work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
  • An understanding of basic nutrition needs
  • Able to demonstrate methods of promoting dignity
  • Communication skills both verbal and written proficient in English.
  • Be able to effectively communicate with compassion and understanding with people on a variety of levels using tact, diplomacy, and empathy
  • Ability to undertake training and direct own learning

  Desirable

  • Experience of delivering care to patients within a Hospice, Hospital, Community or Care Home
  • An understanding of the nature of hospice work, and an ability to seek support for his/herself as a result of distressing circumstances

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • General good level of literacy and numeracy

  Desirable

  • Care Certificate
  • NVQ 2/3 in Health/Social care or equivalent

  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

  St Catherine’s Hospice

  Address

  St. Catherines Hospice

  Grace Holland Avenue

  Pease Pottage

  Crawley

  West Sussex

  RH11 9SL

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.stch.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  St Catherine’s Hospice

  Address

  St. Catherines Hospice

  Grace Holland Avenue

  Pease Pottage

  Crawley

  West Sussex

  RH11 9SL

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.stch.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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