Care Assistant - Bank

NHS; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; 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 to residents. This role involves assisting with personal hygiene, recognizing clinical risks, and ensuring continuity of care. No prior experience is required as comprehensive training is provided. The ideal candidate should communicate effectively, show initiative, and be respectful toward residents. Benefits include a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive training program

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Deliver high standards of personal care to residents.
• Assist residents with their personal hygiene.
• Recognize and understand clinical risk areas.
• Act courteously towards residents and their visitors.

Skills

Effective communication

Respectful behavior

Initiative

Adaptability

Job description

Job summary: This is a Care Assistant role with Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. The role involves delivering high standards of personal care to residents, contributing to the care team, and ensuring the continuity of services.

Main duties of the job: As a Care Assistant, your focus will be on delivering high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. This will include assisting residents with their personal hygiene, recognizing and understanding clinical risk areas, and acting courteously towards residents and their visitors.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, offering a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

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 we're here to celebrate and support you every step of the way.

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, 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 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're not just one of the UK's 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.

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.