Registered General Nurse – Ashford
Location: Ashford, TN24 0NE
Status: Permanent (full and part-time roles available)
Salary: £31,049- £37,796 per annum (DOE, pro rata if part-time)
Closing date: 31/03/2026
This is a rolling advert; suitable candidates will be invited to interview when they apply.
Meet our team and find out more at our Open Day on Friday 24 October 2025.
Meet our team and find out more at our Open Day on Friday 24 October 2025.
Why work for us?
Do you want to develop your nursing skills into a specialist role and be part of a pro-active multi-disciplinary and professional team that makes excellent patient care their priority?
Do you have a passion for working collaboratively in an environment of thriving on positive change and making a difference to those with palliative and end of life care needs?
Are you passionate about supporting and empowering patients to live well until their very last moment in their life, through:
- Holistic needs assessment
- Providing individually-planned care informed by patient wishes
- Supporting patients and their families/carers to have open and honest conversations about their wishes for end-of-life care
If so, then the role of Registered General Nurse at Pilgrims may be just the job for you!
We’re seeking well-motivated and forward-thinking professionals to join our multi-disciplinary team, supporting patients across east Kent.
As a member of the wider clinical team, the successful candidate will be involved in assessing and developing appropriate plans of intervention and support for patients and their families, acting as a resource in providing advice on active palliative care management.
Key duties include:
- Providing a high standard of palliative nursing care, which reflects evidence-based practice, encompasses patient choice, and makes best use of valuable resources;
- Assessing, planning and implementing individualised and effective patient care and evaluating the outcome;
- Communicate with members of the internal and external multi-disciplinary team to ensure the best care for patients whilst on the ward and on discharge;
- Providing advice and guidance related to symptom management;
- Recognising and appropriately responding to changes in patients’ conditions;
- Actively contributing to service development;
- Being involved in the supervision and education of other health professionals;
- Undertaking evidence-based projects and audits;
- Making recommendations for the development of and changes to working practices and processes, as required.
Recognising the need to support employees working within this field, we provide an extensive range of physical and psychological support measures through our health and wellbeing programme, to ensure your success, including:
- A supportive and friendly working environment;
- Regular quality interactions with our clinical and medical teams;
- Strong working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary teams;
- On-going training and CPD/career development;
- A range of resources to ensure our staff have access to help and support where and when they need it; and
- Regular self-care and development sessions.
As our wards operate on a shift working basis, you’ll need a flexible approach to working hours, including the ability to work nights and on weekends.
About us
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.
Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.
Our Vision
“Of a community where people with a life limiting-illness, and their family and friends, are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life.”
We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.
To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form
, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:
our CODE- CompassionateWe treat everyone with compassion and care
- OpenWe communicate openly, honestly and effectively
- DynamicWe are dynamic, improving and developing our service
- EmpoweredWe empower people to achieve their outcomes
Other benefits
As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.
Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.
Our hospices offer:
- Excellent work/life balance
- Access to the NHS pension scheme*
- Current pay rates benchmarked against NHS bandings
- Generous annual leave
- Sick leave from Day 1
- Eligibility for Blue Light Card discount scheme
- Multidisciplinary working within a diverse team
- Paid CPD hours and career development pathways
- Subsidised meals (from just £2.50!)
- Free on-site staff parking
*NHS pension scheme is available to staff who have contributed into the NHS pension scheme within 12 months before joining Pilgrims.
We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.
If you think this is your ideal role and want to join our nursing team and contribute to providing high quality patient care and support to those at the end of their life, then we’d love to hear from you.
Band 6 Physiotherapist (part-time, maternity cover until April 2027)
Location: Pilgrims Hospices Thanet
Status: Fixed term contract, part time (2/3 days per week)
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 pro rata per annum, depending on experience.
Closing date: 27/02/2026
Pilgrims Hospices are seeking a Band 6 Physiotherapist for a fixed term maternity cover until April 2027.
The role:
In this role as a physiotherapist, you will be a key member of our therapy team, working alongside occupational therapists in the inpatient unit, physiotherapy gym, therapy centre, and occasionally in peoples’ homes. You will provide comprehensive physiotherapy assessment and treatment programmes aimed at maintaining or improving functional levels and quality of life. This may include complex moving and handling, non-pharmacological symptom management (breathlessness, for example), running exercise groups, and leading with the management of physiotherapy referrals across these services.
You will be responsible for supervising the physiotherapy assistant, and will have the opportunity to be part of a large, multidisciplinary team, working holistically and collaboratively to ensure our patients receive the highest standard of care.
We’re committed to your professional development, offering continuous training and growth opportunities to ensure you’re always expanding your skills. Every day in this role is unique, but what remains constant is the positive impact you’ll make in a supportive, happy environment.
This is a part time role 2 or 3 days (15/22.5 hours) per week at our Thanet Hospice. £38,682 to £46,580 pro rata per annum, depending on experience.
Main duties:
- To work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team to diagnose, assess, plan and implement patient specific programmes of care/therapy contributing to the continuous assessment of patients.
- To undertake more complex assessments, using profession specific clinical knowledge and skills.
- To function effectively across a variety of environments including inpatient units and out patients, involving changing and demanding conditions.
- To use a comprehensive range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients, and their families/carers, the diagnosis and treatment plan, that may be complex and sensitive, to help progress rehabilitation. This will include patients who may have difficulties with understanding or communication.
- To be responsible for own time management and the prioritisation of caseload.
- To develop comprehensive discharge plans and work with relevant professionals to arrange on-going support as needed
More duties can be found in the job description.
About Us:
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.
Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.
Our Vision:
“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.
We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.
To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:
Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care
Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively
Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service
Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes
How to Apply
To learn more about this role, please refer to the full job description document and recruitment pack below.
Closing date for receipt of completed applications: 27th February 2026 or until sufficient applications have been received.
Healthcare Assistant – Ashford (full time/part time)
Location: Ashford
Status: Permanent (both full and part-time)
Salary: £24,323 per annum (FTE)
Closing date: 20/02/2026
Interview date: 26/02/2026
Why Work for Us
Do you have a background in healthcare?
Do you want to develop your healthcare assistant’s skills into a specialist role and be part of a pro-active multi-disciplinary and professional team, who put excellent patient care as their priority?
Do you have a passion for working collaboratively in an environment of thriving on positive change and making a difference to those with palliative and end of life care needs?
Are you passionate about supporting and empowering patients to live well until their very last moment in their life?
If so, then the role of Healthcare Assistant at Pilgrims may be just the job for you!
We are seeking well-motivated and forward thinking professionals to join our multi-disciplinary team, in supporting patients across east Kent.
The successful candidate will join a busy and dynamic ward where they will be assisting the Nursing team in ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of care in a safe and pleasant environment.
Key duties include:
- Working under the direct supervision of the registered nurse administers as directed in the patients’ care plan, basic nursing care to patients in order to meet their fundamental health care needs
- Assisting patients with personal care whilst maintaining privacy and dignity at all times
- Assisting patients to eat and or drink as independently as possible
- Undertaking some tasks independently without direction and supervision i.e. making beds and cleaning of equipment
- Maintaining accurate records at the point of care using the hospice’s electronic record and reports relevant information directly to the registered nurse
- Using and storing all equipment safely and correctly in accordance with Hospice and manufacturer’s instructions
- Attending mandatory training
- Ensuring patient’s safety at all times and that any care given is in line with training received and follows either verbal direction from a registered nurse or is directed via written nursing care plans or multidisciplinary goal setting sheets
- Assisting in transferring deceased patients to the relevant areas in the hospice setting
- Assisting in giving the deceased last offices respecting their spiritual, cultural and religious needs
- Releasing the patient in to the care of the relevant undertakers
- Ensuring safe custody of patient’s property
- Actively participating in the prevention of cross infection, understanding and adopting into practice the principles of infection control in accordance with hospice policy
- Assisting in the monitoring, storing, and disposal of equipment and hazardous materials in accordance with health and safety
- Reporting any incident or near miss immediately to the nurse in charge of the ward
- Recognising and appropriately responding to changes in patients conditions
- Actively contributing to service development
Recognising the need to support employees working within this particular field, we provide an extensive range of physical and psychological support measures through our health and wellbeing programme, to ensure your success, including:
- A supportive and friendly working environment
- Regular quality interactions with our clinical and medical teams
- Strong working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary teams
- On-going training and CPD/career development
- Access to a range of resources to ensure our staff have access to help and support where and when they need it; and
- Regular self-care and development sessions
We are recruiting for both full and part time positions. As our wards operate on a shift working basis, candidates need a flexible approach to working hours, including the ability to work nights and weekends.
About us
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.
Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.
Our Vision
“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.
We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.
To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form
, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:
our CODECompassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care
Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively
Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service
Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes
Other benefits
As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.
Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.
Our hospices offer:
- Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
- Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
- Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
- A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
- A sense of wellbeing
- A good work-life balance
- Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links
- NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Free hospice parking
We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.
If you think this is your ideal role and want to join us and contribute to providing high quality patient care and support to those at the end of their life, please apply now.
All applicants must have the right to work and will be asked to provide documentary evidence.
Registered General Nurse – Ashford
Location: Ashford
Status: Permanent
Salary: £31049 - £37796 per annum (DOE, pro rata if part-time)
Closing date: 20/02/2026
Why Work for Us?
Do you have a background in palliative nursing care?
Do you want to develop your nursing skills into a specialist role and be part of a pro-active multi-disciplinary and professional team who put excellent patient care as their priority?
Do you have a passion for working collaboratively in an environment of thriving on positive change and making a difference to those with palliative and end of life care needs?
Are you passionate about supporting and empowering patients to live well until their very last moment in their life, through:
- Holistic needs assessment
- Providing individually planned care informed by patient wishes
- Supporting patients and their families/carers to have open and honest conversations about their wishes for end-of-life care
If so, then the role of Registered General Nurse at Pilgrims may be just the job for you!
We are seeking well-motivated and forward thinking professionals to join our multi-disciplinary team, in supporting patients across east Kent.
As a member of the wider clinical team, the successful candidate will be involved in assessing and developing appropriate plans of intervention and support for patients and their families, acting as a resource in providing advice on active palliative care management.
Key duties include:
- Providing a high standard of palliative nursing care which reflects evidence based practice, encompasses patient choice and makes best use of valuable resources;
- Assessing, planning and implementing individualised and effective patient care and evaluating the outcome;
- Communicate with members of the internal and external multi-disciplinary team to ensure the best care for patients whilst on the ward and on discharge;
- Providing advice and guidance related to symptom management;
- Recognising and appropriately responding to changes in patients conditions;
- Actively contributing to service development;
- Being involved in the supervision and education of other health professionals;
- Undertaking evidence based projects and audit;
- Making recommendations for the development of and changes to working practices and processes as required.
Recognising the need to support employees working within this particular field, we provide an extensive range of physical and psychological support measures through our health and wellbeing programme, to ensure your success, including:
- A supportive and friendly working environment;
- Regular quality interactions with our clinical and medical teams;
- Strong working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary teams;
- On-going training and CPD/career development;
- Access to a range of resources to ensure our staff have access to help and support where and when they need it; and
- Regular self-care and development sessions.
As our wards operate on a shift working basis, you will need a flexible approach to working hours, including the ability to work nights and on weekends.
About us
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end-of-life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.
Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.
Our Vision
“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.
We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.
To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form
, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:
our CODECompassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care
Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively
Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service
Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes
Other benefits
As an Employer of Choice, our commitment to supporting our employees and volunteers is a key priority.
Our Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important step in ensuring the sustainability of our workforce, and clearly outlines our strategic intentions to improve employee capability, resilience, and engagement, to adapt to and embrace change as the health sector continues to develop.
Our hospices offer:
- Modern, friendly and highly professional working environments
- Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
- Alignment with NHS pay rates and continuity in membership of the NHS pension scheme
- A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
- A sense of wellbeing
- A good work-life balance
- Locations across well-populated areas of east Kent – all providing very good road and rail links
- NHS and financial discounts i.e. Blue Light Card
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Free hospice parking
We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice.
If you think this is your ideal role and want to join our nursing team and contribute to providing high quality patient care and support to those at the end of their life, then we would love to hear from you.
Please see the Job Pack and Application form link as below.
All applicants will be asked to prove right to work status as we currently do not offer Sponsorship/Visas.
Payroll Specialist (temporary until May 2026)
Location: Canterbury
Status: Fixed Term until May 2026
Salary: £26,530.00 per annum pro rata
Closing date: 20/02/2026
Pilgrims Hospices is recruiting a Payroll Specialist to ensure the quality and accuracy of payroll instructions sent to our external payroll provider and other providers of staff benefits.
The Role
The Payroll Specialist role will support the Head of HR & Education to ensure the quality and accuracy of payroll instructions sent to our external payroll provider and other providers of staff
benefits. Although payroll is outsourced, this specialist role is required to set-up a sustainable, quality payroll service to our employees.
The payroll specialist will process day-to-day payroll tasks (i.e. maternity, sickness, pro-rata calculations, incorrect pay adjustments), and will coordinate with our external bureau to run an accurate and effective payroll.
As the subject matter expert the Payroll Specialist will develop tools internally / with our external service provider to improve self-service and accessibility of pay-related information. This role is for a fixed-term period until the 22nd May 2026 to cover a period of maternity leave. All applicants must have the right to work in the UK as we cannot offer sponsorship currently.
For a more extensive list of responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description document.
Our Benefits
As an Employer of Choice we are committed supporting our employees and volunteers through both a holistic benefits package, but also through wellbeing and work/life balance.
Our workplaces offer:
- 26 days annual leave (for a full-time role), plusall bank and public holidays.
- Flexible/hybrid working arrangements and a great work-life balance with realistic working hours.
- Free onsite parking.
- Financial discounts, provided through the Blue Light Card Membership Scheme.
- Standard Life Workplace Pension. Those joining us from the NHS may retain eligibility to membership of the NHS pension scheme.
- Subsidised meals, currently from £2 per meal.
- Access to Dover Counselling Services.
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay equivalent to that offered by the NHS.
- Friendly and highly professional working environments alongside passionate people.
- Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning.
Working Arrangements
This role is offered on a 28 – 35 hours per week basis (4 to 5 days – pay pro-rata to hours), Monday to Friday and is based at Pilgrims Hospice Canterbury site.
About You
To be successful in this role you should have:
- sound experience managing a complex payroll function for a similar sized organisation.
- previous experience of managing external service providers.
- good knowledge of statutory payroll-related legislation and employer liabilities.
- knowledge of basic UK employment legislation.
- excellent knowledge of Excel with ability to display complex information in a simple format.
About Us
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.
Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.
Our Vision
“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.
We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.
To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form
, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:
our CODECompassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care
Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively
Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service
Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes
How to Apply
To learn more about this role, please download the full job description document as attached.
If you are interested in applying for the role and wish to join our passionate team, please complete our online application form, including as much detail as possible.
Domestic Assistant – Thanet (part time role 8h)
Location: Thanet
Status: Permanent, part time , 8 hours a week
Salary: £5,093 per annum
Closing date: 25/02/2026
Pilgrims Hospices is looking for a friendly, part time Domestic Assistant to join our team to help keep our hospice clean for all those who work, visit and stay at our Thanet hospice site.
The Role
As a Domestic Assistant you will work as part of a team to ensure our hospice environment remains clean and pleasant. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Various cleaning duties to a high standard
- Replenishing washroom supplies
- Basic record keeping
- Reporting of any defects or damage found on our site
- Safely disposing of waste
- Attending team meetings
The post holder must ensure that cleaning is completed to a high standard, in line with standards expected within a healthcare environment.
Working Arrangements
This role is part-time (8 hrs per week) and will be based at Pilgrims Hospice Thanet. Working patterns will usually be two 4 hour shifts per week between Monday-Sunday with start times 7.30am or 13.30. There is opportunity to work additional hours if interested. You will be provided with on-site parking, a uniform and subsidised meals during your work day.
About you:
To be successful in this role you should:
- Have a friendly and approachable attitude
- Be able to work well as part of a team or on your own
- Approach tasks quickly and efficiently
- Have a flexible attitude to work in a team rota, sometimes changing days as service requires
About us:
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.
Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.
Our Vision
“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.
We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.
To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form
, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:
our CODECompassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care
Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively
Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service
Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes
Our Benefits
As an Employer of Choice we are committed supporting our employees and volunteers through both a holistic benefits package, but also through wellbeing and work/life balance.
Our hospices offer:
- Friendly and highly professional working environments alongside passionate people
- Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
- A workplace pension scheme. Those joining us from the NHS may retain eligibility to membership of the NHS pension scheme
- Subsidised meals
- A good work-life balance and realistic working hours
- Financial discounts, provided through the Blue Light Card scheme
- A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
- A sense of wellbeing
We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice!
How to apply
To learn more about this role, please download the full job description document as attached.
If you are interested in applying for the role and wish to join our passionate team, please complete the attached application form.
Retail Stock Processor – Chartham Furniture (part time – 14 hours)
Location: Chartham Furniture Store
Status: Permanent, part-time, 14 hours per week
Salary: £8912.80 per annum
Closing date: 11/03/2026
Interview date: 20/03/2026
*Please note this role is only open to applicants who have a right to work in the UK without sponsorship. You will be asked to provide evidence of this throughout the application process *
Pilgrims Hospices is looking for an organised Retail Stock Processor to join the team and ensure that sufficient stock is processed daily to maintain the required stock density for our Chartham store.
As a Retail Stock Processor you will support the store manager with day-to-day activities. Your main responsibilities will include:
- To support the Retail Manager with ensuring sufficient stock is processed daily to maintain the required stock density in store.
- Meeting agreed financial targets.
- Maintaining effective stock management and merchandising.
- Managing and training volunteers.
- Carrying out shop administration.
- Following health and safety policy & procedures and giving training when needed.
- Implementing and ensuring the growth or our Gift Aid scheme.
This list is not exhaustive. Please see the Retail Stock Processor job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities.
The post holder must ensure that tasks are completed to a high standard, in line with standards expected within a retail environment.
Working Arrangements
This is a part-time role (14 hrs per week). This role will involve working 2 days between Monday and Sunday with a regular shift pattern, however, flexibility is essential as you will need to be available to work on either site as required.
About You
To be successful in this role you should:
- Have a friendly and approachable attitude
- Be able to work well as part of a team or on your own
- Have retail sales experience, particularly in a Fashion retailer
- Be numerate and commercially aware
- Have an awareness of high street retail fashion
About Us
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.
Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.
Our Vision
“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.
We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.
To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form
, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:
our CODECompassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care
Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively
Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service
Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes
Our hospices offer:
- Friendly and highly professional working environments alongside people passionate
- Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
- A workplace pension scheme. Those joining us from the NHS may retain eligibility to membership of the NHS pension scheme
- Subsidised meals
- A good work-life balance and realistic working hours
- Financial discounts, provided through the Blue Light Card scheme
- A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
- A sense of wellbeing
We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice!
How to Apply
If you are interested in applying for this role and wish to join our passionate team, please complete the online application form.