Job Description

Healthcare Assistant / Twilight Healthcare Assistant - Inpatient Unit

• Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week) and Part time (22.5 hours per week)
• Location: Watford Peace Hospice
• Salary: 24,169 per annum (pro rata)
• Closing date: 29 October 2025 at 12 noon
• Interview date: TBC

The full time vacancy is for thirteen shifts of 11.5 hours across a 4 week rota (1 hour unpaid break on each shift). The 22.5 hours per week vacancy will work two 6 hour shifts and one 10.5 a week (30 min break for each shift unpaid). This service is required over a 7-day period. You will need to support the effective management of out of hours calls for our community services.
Please state your full or part time hours preference in your application.
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.

Please note, we do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimum hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
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.
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If successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.
For an informal chat about this role please contact Erin Beer, Inpatient Unit Services Lead -
Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time, therefore we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.
To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.
Our commitment to equality and diversity
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection processes and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.
The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care. Registered Charity no. 1201713

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