Paid

Bank Health Care Assistant

Posted Friday 16th October 2026

Apply by Saturday 31st October 2026

Contract: Permanent
Salary: £12.71 per hour

St Helena is currently looking for Bank Health Care Assistants to join our IPU hospice team. This will be working on a rota basis Monday to Sunday. 

Duties include:
- To assist Registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists in providing high standards of specialist palliative care to patients and their relatives. 
- Identify and adapt clinical support given under the varying professions guiding principles of care and be able to switch approach as directed. 
- The care will be planned and assessed by Registered Nurses and Therapists. 
- This post will include an unsocial hours payment on top of your salary.
- Full UK driving licence is required

Please apply if you are:
- Enthusiastic
- Passionate about providing excellent care
- Reliable
- Caring
We would love to hear from you.

This is an opportunity to further develop knowledge and skills to benefit your practice and the lives of patients and their loved ones through advanced communication skills, symptom control management and end of life care.

Previous experience in palliative care is not essential. We would like to welcome applications from anyone who has the desire to provide gold standard palliative care and make a difference to those in their care.

Apply by Saturday 31st October 2026

St Helena provides a friendly, supportive and positive working environment across all our sites and diverse teams. We are an ambitious organisation determined to make a difference to local people across north Essex who face incurable illness and bereavement. That means working with us is a demanding but hugely fulfilling experience.

Join an outstanding, five-star-rated local hospice charity where people come first. Develop your skills through courses, events, peer learning and clear career progression. Enjoy flexible working, generous annual leave, wellbeing support, refreshments and a healthy staff-to-patient ratio. Plan ahead with a generous pension, NHS pension transfers and life insurance. You can also benefit from an electric-car salary sacrifice scheme, free charging and free on-site parking, while helping local families locally.