Care Assistant - Nights

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading elderly care provider in the UK is looking for a dedicated Care Assistant to deliver high-quality personal care and support to residents. The ideal candidate should communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative, and respect residents' dignity. The role requires adaptability to cover various responsibilities within the care team. A supportive environment with training is offered.

Benefits

Thorough induction and training program

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Must have effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents.
• Be an efficient worker capable of following instructions.
• Ability to adapt and be flexible with responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high standards of personal care to residents.
• Assist with personal hygiene care and ensure dignity.
• Recognize clinical risk areas and escalate as needed.
• Practice safe systems of work across 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. They are seeking a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Care Assistant to join their award-winning team, focusing on delivering high standards of personal care and contributing to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.

Job responsibilities

Your focus as Care Assistant will be to deliver high standards of personal care and contribute 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 escalate 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 the employer

At Avery, we are not just one of the UKs largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we are a place where people love to work. We offer a caring, supportive environment where employees feel valued and empowered, with a vision of "creating meaningful lives together" and over 100 homes nationwide.

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 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.

Requirements

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.