Job Description

Are you an experienced and compassionate HCA ready to take the next step in your career? If you're currently leading a team and looking to specialise in palliative care, wed love to hear from you.
Were seeking a dedicated Senior Team HCA to join our Community Services team in the Richmond and Hambleton area, where your leadership, empathy, and commitment can make a real difference. We are proud to deliver specialised end-of-life care that honours each individual with kindness, respect, and dignity.
Main duties of the job
Our Community Service team supports patients and their families at home, delivering holistic care that meets physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. As a Senior Team HCA, you will play a vital leadership role coordinating care, managing team members, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring consistently high standards of practice.
Youll also be part of our wider clinical leadership team, working closely with colleagues across the organisation to cultivate a warm, responsive, and compassionate care environment.
What Youll Do:

• Lead and coordinate care delivery in the community, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate clinical practice.
• Line manage, mentor, support, and supervise HCAs and nursing staff fostering a positive team culture focused on learning and development.
• Develop and implement training and competency frameworks for the care team.
• Support the integration and delivery of complex and specialist palliative care.
• Oversee assessments, care planning, and implementation of individualised care in collaboration with patients, families, and the wider team.
• Manage complex symptoms and end-of-life care with clinical skill and emotional sensitivity.
• Contribute to continuous service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Act as a role model in delivering compassionate, person-centred care.

About us

• We put people first in all that we do, which includes our own team
• Wellbeing and resilience support with a dedicated team by your side
• Flexible and hybrid working for many roles
• A supportive and caring environment
• Opportunities to grow, develop and progress, with culture of lifelong learning

How to apply:
Please click Apply and you will be forwarded to the vacancy page on our website. Click on the role and this will open the application form.
Download and read through job description(via the Downloads section at the top of the advert)as you will need to tell us how you meet the essential requirements of the role.
Make sure you answer all supplementary questions as part of your application otherwise your application will be automatically rejected.
We recommend reading the application pack Joining Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just B and Saint Michaels and browsing the Join our team pages of our website, which will provide lots of useful information about what its like working for us and how the recruitment process works.
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Details
Date posted
20 November 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
31,422.07 a year 45% of hours need to be in unsocial hours
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Flexible working
Reference number
B0009-25-0022
Job locations
Herriot Hospice at the Lambert
Chapel Street
Thirsk
North Yorkshire
YO7 1LU
Job description
Job responsibilities
What Youll Do:

• Lead and coordinate care delivery in the community, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate clinical practice.
• Line manage, mentor, support, and supervise HCAs and nursing staff fostering a positive team culture focused on learning and development.
• Develop and implement training and competency frameworks for the care team.
• Support the integration and delivery of complex and specialist palliative care.
• Oversee assessments, care planning, and implementation of individualised care in collaboration with patients, families, and the wider team.
• Manage complex symptoms and end-of-life care with clinical skill and emotional sensitivity.
• Contribute to continuous service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Act as a role model in delivering compassionate, person-centred care.

See job description attached. Job description
Job responsibilities
What Youll Do:

• Lead and coordinate care delivery in the community, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate clinical practice.
• Line manage, mentor, support, and supervise HCAs and nursing staff fostering a positive team culture focused on learning and development.
• Develop and implement training and competency frameworks for the care team.
• Support the integration and delivery of complex and specialist palliative care.
• Oversee assessments, care planning, and implementation of individualised care in collaboration with patients, families, and the wider team.
• Manage complex symptoms and end-of-life care with clinical skill and emotional sensitivity.
• Contribute to continuous service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Act as a role model in delivering compassionate, person-centred care.

See job description attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• See person specification attached.

Desirable

• See person specification attached.

Experience
Essential

• See person specification attached.

Desirable

• See person specification attached.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• See person specification attached.

Desirable

• See person specification attached.

Experience
Essential

• See person specification attached.

Desirable

• See person specification attached.

Skills Required