Care Assistant

Avery Healthcare Group Ltd.; Sidcup; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury elderly care provider in the UK is seeking a Care Assistant to deliver high standards of personal care and support to residents. The role emphasizes effective communication and respect, ensuring dignity and independence for each resident. No prior experience required as comprehensive training is provided. Join a compassionate team dedicated to creating meaningful lives together.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction and training

Supportive working environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate initiative and respect towards the residents.
• Efficient at following instructions from team members.
• Adaptive and flexible to cover varying responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Assist residents with personal hygiene care ensuring dignity and respect.
• Recognize clinical risk areas in residents and escalate risks.
• Act courteously towards residents and visitors.
• Practice safe systems of work across various tasks.

Skills

Effective communication

Respectful attitude

Efficiency

Adaptability

Job description

This is a Care Assistant role at Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. The role involves delivering high standards of personal care, contributing to the care team, and ensuring continuity of services to residents. The ideal candidate will live the company's values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable, and will have the ability to communicate effectively and work efficiently as part of a team.

Overview

Your focus as a Care Assistant will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.

Main duties

As a Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare, you will be responsible for assisting residents with their personal hygiene care, ensuring optimum independence, dignity, and respect. You will also recognize and understand clinical risk areas in residents, such as weight loss, pressure sores, and signs of infection, and escalate any identified risks in a timely manner. Additionally, you will act courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident, and practice safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

About us

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 creating meaningful experiences for both its residents and team members, and offers exceptional care across its growing network of over 100 homes. Avery Healthcare is a place where people love to work, with a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Job responsibilities

Package Description: At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and were here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, youll be making a positive impact on residents lives every day your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. Were committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. And as part of our close-knit team, youll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. Were now 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, wed love to hear from you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

Your focus as a 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, sign 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.
• Practicing safe systems of work across the range of task.

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, were not just one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes were a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and were 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

• 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 both verbally and in writing, demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents and other people in the home, be an efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions from other team members, and be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

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.