# Community palliative care healthcare assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-palliative-care-healthcare-assistant/32718291-e51b-470f-8d90-3d2b45027d54
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-palliative-care-healthcare-assistant/32718291-e51b-470f-8d90-3d2b45027d54.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Rochford Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Healthcare assistant
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - Monday to Friday 9-5 or 8-4
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-29T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21T09:20:43.373Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Canvey/Essex_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Palliative_care/Palliative_care-v8361304
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8361304?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.eput.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

To support the registered nurses to provide care to palliative care patients in their own homes. You will be allocated visits by the registered nurses to support stable palliative patients at home. Good communication skills are essential for this role.

### Main duties of the job

Phlebotomy, continence assessments, equipment ordering, visiting stable patients in their homes, ability to take and record vital signs, accurate record keeping, mandatory training.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To meet daily in the morning with colleagues to plan day and discuss any issues which have arisen. To visit stable palliative patients in their own homes. To take blood, measure blood pressure, pulse etc. To document patient care accurately in electronic record.

### Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Essential

**Essential**

- Good communication skills

**Desirable**

- Lone working experience

### Essential and desirable

**Essential**

- Previous community experience
- Previous experience in health or social care
- IT literacy

**Desirable**

- Experience of SystmOne
- Clinical skills such as phlebotomy, wound care
- Experience with palliative care patients

## Documents

- [person spec (pdf, 200.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10687993)
- [staff benefits (pdf, 152.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2990)
- [job description (pdf, 392.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10687992)
- [candidate privacy policy (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1853)
- [right to work information (pdf, 293.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2355)
- [values of the nhs pension (pdf, 151.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2659)
- [why join the nhs pension scheme (pdf, 91.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1849)
- [employer recognition scheme - gold award (pdf, 27.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2451)

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