Healthcare Assistant SHG0178

Location

Arundel

Vacancy Type

Full Time/Permanent

Pay Range

Grade 3 - £25,427 Pro rata for part time roles

Contracted Hours

22.5 to 37.5 hours per week

Application Deadline

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Job Profile

Job Profile document

Job Summary

About the role

This role supports the provision of palliative care to children, young people and families living with a life limited condition. Palliative care includes the provision of respite breaks enabling children opportunities to have fun, make memories ‘adding life to shortened years’. You will provide high quality holistic, family centred and compassionate care whilst meeting the complex clinical needs of the children in our care. The hospice delivers end of life care to a small number of children working with specialist teams providing training and advice to manage children’s symptoms effectively. You will work as part of a large team comprising of clinical staff, activities coordinators and the Child and Family Support Team.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Participate in the delivery of high quality care to children and young people who receive respite and end of life care at the hospice.
• Contribute to the ongoing assessment of children and young people, providing and monitoring care under the supervision of the nursing team.
• Participate in the training and development opportunities and frameworks provided by the hospice education team.
• Report changes in the child or young person’s symptoms and conditions and implement changes in care under supervision of the nursing team.
• Work within your scope of practice and clinical competence, asking for help from the nursing team when appropriate.
• Advocate for the child and young person and their families, supporting and promoting decisions, choices and best interests.
• Work as part of a team, providing support and supervision to students and junior members of staff.
• Working with support provide end of life care to children or young people staying at the hospice.
• Contribute to the assessment of children who are end of life ensuring symptoms are controlled, liaising with the specialist palliative care teams as required.
• Ensure exemplary communication skills and participate in the MDT planning of children’s care.
• Maintain accurate contemporaneous patients’ records as per hospice policy.

About us

Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.

St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.

Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for East and West Sussex and South East Hampshire, providing specialist palliative care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions.

Martlets provides essential care to people affected by terminal illness in Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas. Our expert teams provide the very best care and support, helping patients and their loved ones to live life to the full during the precious time they have together.

We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Your application and interview should give us an accurate and authentic picture of your skills and experiences. Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Before you submit an application, we will ask you to confirm the information you provide is true and accurate.Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.Benefits

• Company pension scheme or NHS pension scheme for eligible employees
• Up to 35 days’ annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• On-site education support and study leave opportunities
• Option to access Medicash and cover your everyday cost of healthcare for less
• Free parking, subsidised meals and various social activities
• Corporate rate gym membership, discounts with local complementary therapies and Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in Service

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.