Job overview
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with over 100 homes across the country. The company is committed to creating meaningful lives together, offering exceptional care and a supportive, inspiring environment for both residents and employees.
Role
As a Care Assistant, you will deliver high-quality personal care, contribute to the care team, and ensure continuity of services for residents. Avery values respect, compassion, and exceptional care, offering a supportive environment for professional growth and development.
Main duties of the job
Your focus as Care Assistant will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contribute fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. This includes assisting residents with personal hygiene, recognizing and understanding clinical risk areas, and acting courteously towards residents and visitors while respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident. Avery provides a thorough induction and training program to ensure confidence in the role, even if you have no prior experience.
Job responsibilities
Package Description: At Avery Healthcare, we support the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams and aim to help you grow in a caring, supportive environment with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Care Assistant.
About the role
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.
Other responsibilities include:
* Assisting residents in all aspects of personal hygiene to ensure independence, dignity, and respect at all times.
* Recognising and understanding clinical risk areas in residents such as weight loss, pressure sores, risk of falls, signs of infections, and escalating identified risks in a timely manner.
* Acting courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.
* Practising safe systems of work across the range of tasks.
About you
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 provide a thorough induction and training programme to ensure confidence in your role.
Our ideal candidate must:
* Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
* Demonstrate initiative and be respectful towards 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.
About Avery
At Avery, we are not just one of the UKs largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we are a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team alike. With our vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we proudly offer exceptional care across our growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.
Additional information
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.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.
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