Care Assistant

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members alike. Avery is seeking a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join their award-winning team as a Care Assistant. The role involves delivering high standards of personal care and contributing to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.

As a Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare, you will be responsible for assisting residents in all their personal hygiene care, ensuring optimum independence, dignity, and respect. You will also need to recognise and understand clinical risk areas in residents, such as weight loss, pressure sores, and risk of falls, and escalise any identified risks in a timely manner. Additionally, you will be expected to act courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident, and to practice safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with over 100 homes across the country. They are committed to creating a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day. Avery's vision is to create meaningful lives together, and they strive to offer exceptional care and meaningful experiences for both their residents and team members.

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Shift Details – day and night positions available.

Your focus as Care Assistant will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.

• Assist residents in all their personal hygiene care ensuring optimum independence, dignity and respect of individuals at all times.
• Recognise and understand clinical risk areas in residents such as weight loss, pressure sores, risk of falls, signs of infections and escalise any identified risks in a timely manner.
• Act courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.
• Practice safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do. Experience is not required as we are proud to offer a thorough induction and training programme to ensure confidence within your role.

• Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate initiative and be respectful towards the residents and other people in the home.
• Be an efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions from other team members.
• Be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

Please note this role will require:

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

No prior experience is required, as Avery Healthcare offers a thorough induction and training program to ensure confidence within the role. The ideal candidate must have the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents and other people in the home, be an efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions from other team members, and be able to adapt and be flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.