Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, offering exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, with a vision of “creating meaningful lives together”. Avery is committed to supporting and developing their teams, providing a caring, supportive, and empowering environment where employees feel valued and inspired.
Job description
As a Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare, your focus will be on delivering high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. Responsibilities include assisting residents with personal hygiene, recognising and escalating clinical risks, and acting courteously towards residents and their visitors. Avery offers a thorough induction and training programme to ensure you feel confident in your role.
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 escalating 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.
Qualifications
Experience is not required as Avery Healthcare offers a thorough induction and training programme. The ideal candidate must have the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents, be an efficient worker, and be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.
Additional Requirements
* DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
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.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.
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