Overnight Community Healthcare Assistant
This is a Permanent, Part Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
The Vacancy
- Hours: 19 hours per week
- Location: Based at Rennie House, Tring but required to travel throughout the Rennie Grove Peace Locality
- Salary: £24,625 per annum (Pro-rata)
- Closing date: 14 August 2025 at 12:00 noon
- Interview date: 22 August 2025
The Role
This role is part of our Community Hospice at Home Service, which delivers compassionate, end-of-life care to people in their own homes during the final weeks of life. You don’t need formal medical experience to apply – just a caring nature, compassion, and a genuine desire to help and support others at the end of their lives. Full training and support will be provided.
As a Night Team Health Care Assistant, you will:
- Provide care and support to patients, families and carers at home during the night.
- Provide support to Hospice at Home nurses at night by working closely together visiting patients in the community over a large geographical area. (you will visit patients with an experienced Hospice at Home Nurse)
- Support the nursing team such as speaking with other healthcare providers.
- Work closely with hospice colleagues and community partners to deliver joined-up care.
- Champion the Rennie Grove Peace philosophy in the local community.
- Develop your skills within HCA knowledge and competency framework, with full support provided.
- Drive between appointments, therefore a car and full driving licence are essential for this role.
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You’ll work up to 19hrs per week over two nights (9.5hr shifts)
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If successful, you'll join on the first working Monday of the month so we can best support you with our structured induction programme.
For an informal chat about this role please contact Amanda Hudson, Head of Community Services, at amanda.hudson@renniegrovepeace.org
Please note, we do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
To ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for the role, all applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.
Applications will be reviewed and invited to interview as received. We reserve the right to close the advert at any time, therefore we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.
Our commitment to equality and diversity.
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.
The Company
The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.
The Company
At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we’re all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It’s important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.
Employee benefits overview
At Rennie Grove Peace, we are committed to creating a workplace where our staff can develop their careers and make a real difference.
A summary of benefits is below:
We offer competitive salaries
All roles are benchmarked against the external market and against the NHS pay structure for Clinical employees.
Plan your future with our Pension scheme options
Standard Life scheme with matched contributions; up to 7% (with a min of 4% employee contribution) or options for continuation in the NHS pension scheme for eligible staff.
Protected with Life Assurance
2x salary paid in the event of death for eligible employees up to age 75.
Family friendly policies
Including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay. Pro-rata for part time roles.
We pay professional registration fees for eligible employees in clinical roles
We reimburse your travel expenses
Eligible employees can claim travel expenses for mileage that qualifies for payment (subject to HMRC rules).
Additional employee discounts available
Including retail, entertainment and services discounts, including the Blue Light Card (subject to purchase of membership).
Achieving a work-life balance is important. We want you to enjoy your work and take valuable time out to relax and be with your loved ones. We enable this through the following:
Flexible working
Including hybrid, part time, job share (depending on role requirements).
Generous holiday entitlement
27 days per annum, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 30 days at 5 years and 33 days at 10 years’ service. (Pro-rata for part-time roles)
Birthday leave
Religious holidays
We are mindful of individual requests.
Your health and wellbeing is important, and we offer you options to support you in maintaining your health.
Health Cash Plan
- Rennie Grove Peace funded membership for you and up to four children.
- Membership can be extended to include your partner, at the employee’s expense.
- Including financial support for health screening, prescriptions, dental/optical, diagnostic tests/consultations, physiotherapy, chiropody, complementary/alternative therapies, as well as virtual GP services and discounted health club membership (subject to eligibility).
- Employee Assistance Programme – free 24/7 confidential service, offering unlimited access to advice, information, coaching and counselling, where appropriate.
Additional rules apply, these can be discussed with you.
We are committed in supporting your personal growth and development and we provide a range of opportunities, including:
- Comprehensive induction programme to help you settle in quickly.
- Regular development conversations with your Line Manager.
- Training and development opportunities including externally funded courses and coaching, where appropriate.
- Specialist palliative training for clinicians and non-clinicians.
- Clinical supervision training and mentoring for clinicians.
- Protected and dedicated time given to learning and developing.
- Employee Voice – fantastic opportunities to join collaborative focus groups.
- Opportunity to develop through our exciting programme of fundraising events and social occasions.
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