JOB TITLE:Healthcare Assistant
CONTRACT TYPE:Bank
DEPARTMENT:Ward
HOURS:Adhoc hours
SALARY:£15.76 per hour (£ % enhancement)
CLOSING DATE:31 August 2025
INTERVIEW DATE:Tuesday 9 September 2025
Are you keen to provide people with personalised care and support? Are you good at offering comforting words? Are you courageous enough to stand alongside local people and their families as they face the end of life? If youre answering yes, then St Catherines Hospice would love to hear from you.
Were seeking enthusiastic, caring and compassionate individuals to join our hospice team working on our wards in Crawley.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, a professional demeanour and display a commitment to providing a high standard of care to our patients. An NVQ 3 in Health/Social care or relevant experience in Care work is an advantage but not essential as full training will be given. Candidates should have a sound understanding of health and safety procedures and infection prevention & control.
When applying for this vacancy, please submit a covering letter or add a note to your application, explaining why you would like to work for St Catherines Hospice.
This post is offered on a Bank basis, working adhoc hours as and when required.
When you join St Catherines, youll be joining a supportive team all working towards a big ambition: to help everyone face death informed, supported and pain free. If that sounds like something youd find fulfilling, please apply today.
Employees at St Catherines Hospice can enjoy a variety of benefits including:
* 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service to 30 days + public holidays
* Option to buy or sell up to 1 week of annual leave
* Day off for volunteering
* Day off for moving house
* Blue Light Card
* Cycle to work scheme
* Eye test vouchers
* Generous Pension Up to 9% employer contributions or honour of NHS pension
* Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
* Life Assurance 4x basic salary
* Pay enhancement of unsocial hours
* Flu Jabs
* Counselling Offering
* Discounted Gym
* Schwartz rounds
* Wellbeing Supervision (aka clinical supervision)
* Career pathway and progression
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We are located in Grace Holland Avenue, Pease Pottage, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 9SL.
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If this role sounds like it could be for you, please apply now.
Please upload either your CV or the St Catherines Hospice application form where it asks you to upload your application form, there is no need to complete both.
If you dont have a CV and would like to complete our application for, this can be found here.
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