Care Assistant

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

Job summary

A leading provider of elderly care homes is seeking a Care Assistant in Forty Green, England. You will provide high-quality personal care to residents, ensuring their dignity and well-being. This role offers a thorough induction and training program, making it suitable for those without prior experience. Join an inspiring environment where all staff feel valued and empowered.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate initiative and be respectful towards residents.
• Efficient worker able to follow instructions.
• Adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Assist residents with personal hygiene while ensuring independence and dignity.
• Recognize clinical risk areas in residents and escalate as needed.
• Act courteously towards residents and their visitors.
• Practice safe systems of work across tasks.

Skills

Effective communication

Initiative

Flexibility

Respectfulness

Job description

This is a great opportunity to join Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. As a Care Assistant, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality personal care to residents, ensuring their comfort, dignity, and well-being. Avery is committed to creating a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Overview

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. With a vision of 'creating meaningful lives together', the company is passionate about offering exceptional care and creating a supportive and inspiring environment for both residents and employees. Avery operates over 100 homes across the UK, providing a range of services including residential, nursing, and dementia care.

Main duties

Your focus as a Care Assistant will be on delivering high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. You will assist residents with their personal hygiene, recognise and understand clinical risk areas, and act courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident. You will also practice safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

• 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 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.

About Avery

At Avery, were not just one of the UKs largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we’re a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we're 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.

Requirements

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

Please note: This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

Disclosures

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.