Palliative Care Assistant (Health Care Assistant)

Location: Wolverhampton, WV3 9DH

Hours: 2 posts at 34.5 hours & 1 post at 30 hours per week (rotational shifts day and night)

Salary: £25,102 pro-rata

What we do

Compton Care provide high quality, accessible care and support. For over 40 years we have been providing specialist palliative and end of life care to patients, and support for their families, helping them to navigate every aspect of living with a life limiting condition. 

In delivering our mission Compton Care is proud of our standing at the forefront in providing care and support through several dedicated but also interlinked service including our inpatient unit, community care, our living well centre, and supportive care services.

What will you do?

As a Palliative Care Assistant, you will provide accessible, innovative, and influential care for people living with complex and incurable conditions in our communities as well as supporting their families and carers. You will participate in delivering healthcare to patients and providing emotional and psychological support, working in partnership with the patient and in collaboration with internal colleagues.

What we want you to bring.

You will have experience of providing care in a health or social setting and hold an NVQ level 2 in care or equivalent. 

You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to demonstrate the ability to be compassionate and sensitive towards our service users and colleagues. 

You should also be able to use IT packages such as Word and Excel. 

Please refer to the full Job Description for further details and requirements for the role. 

What’s in it for you? 

• 27 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays), increasing with long service. 
• Salary exchange pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution from day one of employment increasing to 7% after 3 years scheme membership or the ability to transfer an existing NHS pension where you are working in a patient facing role. 
• Death in service benefit at 2x salary. 
• Staff discount across our coffee shops 
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program including unlimited telephone counselling support, 24/7 GP access and a staff discount platform. 
• We are also a Blue Light Card accredited organisation. 

About our recruitment process:

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

Compton Care is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure that all our staff are selected and vetted fairly so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. It is also subject to satisfactory references and occupational health clearance.