Assistant Practitioner

Assistant Practitioner – Day Therapy Unit
Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice, Leeds, LS6 2AE
22.5 hours per week,
Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 16:00 (Some flexibility may be required)
£11.83 – £13.40 per hour, depending on experience

Be there when it matters

There has never been a more important time to provide high quality, specialist end-of-life care to support patients and their families.

About us

Wheatfields Hospice is in Headingley, Leeds. We provide expert palliative care. We support people living with a life-limiting condition, and also help their loved ones and family.

About the Role

Sue Ryder offers a great opportunity for an Assistant Practitioner to join our dedicated Therapies and Nursing team within our Day Treatment Unit at Wheatfields Hospice. Your role will be to provide best possible quality care and support to service users and their carers/family.

You will support the assessment, planning, consistent implementation and evaluation of high standards of personalised nursing care or therapy for patients with specialist palliative care needs all under the direction of a registered professional.

The successful candidate will be required to support patients coming into the hospice for various therapeutic sessions to help them live as well as possible with their conditions. These sessions will include coping with breathlessness, exercise, psychological support and therapeutic activities.

Additional training will be provided, and it is most important to us that we find individuals with the right attributes to help patients live life to the fullest.

An informal discussion with our team is highly recommended to fully understand this unique opportunity.

About you

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual with post registration experience in specialist palliative care. You will have excellent communication and clinical skills to provide and maintain a high standard of Palliative care delivery. You will be forward thinking and willing to contribute to the ongoing development of our Day Treatment Services.

You will have an active role in developing and implementing changes in the service.

We provide educational opportunities and offer clinical supervision to enable continuous personal development.

To be considered for this role you must have:

• Level 5 Foundation Degree in Assistant Practitioner (Healthcare)
• Experience of working with service users with palliative care needs
• Experience of working within a clinical setting
• Effective verbal and written communication

Benefits

• Enhanced pay for unsociable hours
• Company pension scheme
• 27 days holiday - rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Continuation of NHS pension (T&Cs apply)

For more details please visit our website

If you want more than just a job, we want you.

Join the team and be there when it matters.

At Sue Ryder, we can’t make life’s most difficult moments easy, but we can carry some of the load. For more than 70 years, we have been a source of strength and support for anyone living with a life-limiting illness or grief.

We are there when it matters.