Healthcare Assistant - Scottish Borders

Make a difference when it matters most

Are you a compassionate Healthcare Assistant looking for a role where your care can make a truly meaningful difference?

Marie Curie is looking for dedicated Healthcare Assistant to join our community-based overnight service across the Scottish Borders, supporting people living with a terminal illness in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes. Covering communities including Galashiels, Coldstream, Eyemouth, Cockburnspath, Hawick, Jedburgh and Lauder, youll typically provide care within a 25-mile radius of your home.

Working overnight, youll provide compassionate, person-centred care that helps patients feel safe, comfortable and supported. Just as importantly, your presence will offer reassurance to families and those close to them, knowing their loved one is receiving skilled and dignified care throughout the night.

Youll work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, helping us make sure that every person receives the care, dignity and compassion they deserve at the end of life.

This is more than a Healthcare Assistant role. Its an opportunity to make a real difference to people in your local community when they need you most.

If you share our commitment to compassionate, person-centred care, wed love to hear from you.

What you will be doing:

• Access visit schedules and patient details via the electronic tablet system at the start of each shift.
• Contact patients and their families prior to arrival to confirm the visit and provide reassurance.
• Attend patients homes and communicate effectively with both the patient and their loved ones, as well as liaise with the out-of-hours clinical service.
• Deliver high-quality, person-centred care tailored to individual needs, including:pain and symptom management, pressure area care and monitoring and supporting fluid intake.
• Accurately document all care provided and observations in the patients electronic records.
• Work independently on a one-to-one basis within the patients home, ensuring safety, dignity and professionalism at all times.
• Provide overnight support to a single patient, offering companionship and monitoring for any signs of deterioration.
• Escalate any concerns or changes in the patients condition to the out-of-hours service promptly.
• Deliver sensitive and respectful care following a patients death, including personal care and preparation of the body.
• Notify the out-of-hours service in the event of a patient passing during the night and complete all required documentation.

What were looking for:

• Minimum of6 months experiencedelivering care in a health or social care setting
• Full UK driving licenceand access to your own vehicle
• NVQ Level 2 qualification in Health and Social Care(or equivalent), or a willingness to work towards this qualification
• Anurturing and compassionate approach, with excellent communication skills
• The ability towork independentlywhile being an integral part of a multidisciplinary team

Please see the full job description.

Whats in it for me?

Salary: Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale Band 2 £26,696 to £28,988 per annum pro rata with generious enhancements which include 44% x your basic salary per hour paid for Saturdays & weekday night duty (8pm to 6am)

88% x your basic salary per hour paid for Sundays and Public Bank Holidays

Contract: Permanent part time 18 hours per week (2 night shifts per week across a day service 10pm to 7.00am)

Based: Community Based (Based from home traveling within a 25-mile radius across the Scottish Borders)

Benefits Youll Love

• Annual leave allowance 27 days plus 10 public holidays (pro rata)
• 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 eyecare cost
• Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
• Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme
• 15% staff discount in all Marie Curie Shops
• Life assurance for all employees

Application Process

• Close date for applications:8th November 2026
• Interview Dates: To Be confirmed
• As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your most relevant skills, experience and knowledge for the role.

** To avoid disapointment, we encourage you to apply as soon as you can , as we reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications. **