Job Description
Role: Band 2 Healthcare Assistant
Contract: Bank Hours
Location: University Hospitals Plymouth (on-site)
Hourly rate: £12.51 per hour, plus enhancements
As a Healthcare Assistant with Marie Curie at University Hospitals Plymouth, you’ll be an essential part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering compassionate, person-centred care to patients approaching the end of life. Your role will involve supporting patients with their personal care needs, including hygiene, nutrition, mobility, and comfort, always maintaining dignity and respect. You’ll assist with holistic assessments and care planning, monitor skin integrity, help with rest and sleep, and ensure a clean and safe environment for patients.
You’ll communicate sensitively with patients and their loved ones, reporting concerns promptly and supporting their choices and wishes. Working closely with registered nurses and other healthcare professionals, you’ll help manage symptoms, observe and report changes in condition, and contribute to advance care planning. By providing high standards of care and emotional support during life’s most challenging moments, you’ll make a meaningful difference to patients and those important to them.
Qualifications
* NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care OR an equivalent alternative Level 2 Qualification
* Recent experience in caring for and supporting patients at the end of life.
* Someone who understands the importance of prioritising a patients care, comfort and privacy
* A clear, appropriate and sensitive communicator who can make informed decisions in a timely manner, confident in having difficult conversations
* A passion, knowledge and understanding of how to deliver person centred care
* The ability to remain calm in stressful situations
* Experience working within a Multidisciplinary team, assisting in curating individual assessments and advanced care plans.
Additional Information
What's in it for you:
* Annual leave allowance up to 27 days plus 8 public holidays
* Competitive Policy for parental/sick Leave
* Continuous Professional development
* Industry leading training programmes
* Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
* Defined contribution schemes for Pension
* Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
* Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
* Introduce a friend scheme
* Help with childcare cost (T & C’s apply)
* Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
* Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme
* Life assurance – for all employees
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For more information please contact jenny.evans2@mariecurie.org.uk
Advert closes on 31st October 2025.
Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
We're happy to accommodate any requests for reasonable adjustments. Please email any requests to recruitment@mariecurie.org.uk