Care Assistant

Avery Healthcare Group Ltd.; Esher; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading luxury elderly care provider in the UK is seeking a Care Assistant to deliver high standards of personal care and support residents. You will be provided with comprehensive training to ensure confidence in your duties. The ideal candidate should communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative, and respect residents' dignity. This role includes important responsibilities such as assisting with personal hygiene and recognizing clinical risks.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction and training program

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate initiative and be respectful towards residents and other people.
• Be an efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions.
• Be able to adapt and cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high standards of personal care to residents.
• Assist residents with personal hygiene to ensure dignity.
• Recognise and understand clinical risks in residents.
• Practice safe systems of work across a range of tasks.

Skills

Effective communication

Initiative

Respectfulness

Adaptability

Job description

Overview

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, committed to creating meaningful experiences for residents and team members. They are seeking a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join their award-winning team as a Care Assistant, making a positive impact on residents' lives every day.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Shift Details: 07:00-19:30 and every other weekend

As a Care Assistant, you will deliver high standards of personal care and contribute to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. This includes assisting residents with personal hygiene, recognising and understanding clinical risk areas, and acting courteously toward residents and visitors while respecting their dignity and individuality. You will practice safe systems of work across a range of tasks.

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 will include:

• 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.
• Practicing 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 Avery offers 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 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.

Qualifications

• Experience is not 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, be an efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions, and be adaptive and flexible to cover 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.