Overview
This job opportunity is for a Care Assistant position at Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. The role involves delivering high-quality personal care to residents during the night shift, with a focus on ensuring their comfort, dignity, and well-being.
Main duties
As a Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare, your primary responsibilities will include assisting residents with their personal hygiene and ensuring their comfort and safety during the night. You will recognise and understand clinical risk areas, such as weight loss, pressure sores, infection signs, and escalate any identified risks in a timely manner. You will act courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident. The role also involves practicing safe systems of work across a range of tasks.
About us
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK\'s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. The company is committed to creating meaningful lives together for both its residents and employees. With a growing network of over 100 homes, Avery Healthcare offers exceptional care and a supportive, inspiring environment where team members feel valued and empowered to develop their careers.
Job responsibilities
Package Description:
Shift Details: Bank
We are committed to supporting the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams every step of the way. When you join us, you\'ll make a positive impact on residents\' lives every day; your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We are dedicated to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. As part of our close-knit team, you\'ll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Care Assistant. If this sounds like the place for you, we\'d love to hear from you!
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
* Assisting residents in all their personal hygiene care ensuring optimum independence, dignity and respect of individuals at all times.
* Recognising and understanding clinical risk areas in residents such as weight loss, pressure sores, risk of falls, signs of infections and escalate any 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 are proud to offer a thorough induction and training programme to ensure confidence within your role.
Our ideal candidate must:
* 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.
About Avery
At Avery, we are not just one of the UK\'s 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. Join us and see why Avery is the preferred choice for residents and team members alike.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Previous experience in a care setting is not required, as Avery Healthcare provides a thorough induction and training program to ensure employees are confident in their roles. The ideal candidate should have the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents and other team members, be an efficient worker, and be adaptive and flexible in covering a range of responsibilities.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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