Care Assistant - Nights

NHS; Rugeley; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, is seeking a compassionate Care Assistant for their Rugeley location. The role focuses on delivering high standards of personal care and supporting residents with dignity. No experience is required as a comprehensive training program will be provided, making this an excellent opportunity for individuals looking to start a career in care while joining a friendly award-winning team.

Benefits

Access to leisure and retail discounts

Support for career development and apprenticeships

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents and team members.
• Be adaptable and flexible to cover various responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Assist residents with personal hygiene ensuring dignity and respect.
• Recognize clinical risk areas and escalate any identified risks timely.
• Act courteously towards residents and visitors.

Skills

Communication

Initiative

Respectfulness

Flexibility

Job description

Avery Healthcare is one of the largest providers of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, with a vision of 'creating meaningful lives together' through exceptional care and experience across its growing portfolio of over 100 care homes. The company is seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated Care Assistant to join its friendly, award-winning team at its Rugeley location.

Main duties of the job

As a Care Assistant, your focus will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. Responsibilities include assisting residents with personal hygiene, recognizing and understanding clinical risk areas, acting courteously towards residents and their visitors, and practicing safe systems of work. No prior experience is required as Avery Healthcare provides a thorough induction and training program.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the largest providers of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, with a vision of 'creating meaningful lives together' through exceptional care and experience across its growing portfolio of over 100 care homes.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

At Avery Healthcare we believe in caring for those who care for our residents; We recognise and celebrate our hard-working colleagues, support your career development, and offer a variety of apprenticeships, and provide you with access to a range of leisure and retail discounts.

We are seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our friendly, award-winning team as Care Assistant.

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, 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

As one of the largest providers of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, we believe that the later years of our residents lives should be as enriching as any other. Our vision of creating meaningful lives together is reached by the exceptional care and experience we proudly offer throughout our growing portfolio of over 100 care homes whilst establishing ourselves as the preferred choice for residents and employees.

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

• To be successful in this role, you will need to live Avery Healthcare's values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable. You should have the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents and other team members, be an efficient worker, 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.