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Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, committed to creating meaningful experiences for residents and employees. As a Care Assistant, you will deliver high-quality personal care and support the care team to ensure continuity of services for residents. Avery values compassion, respect, and a shared commitment to exceptional care, offering a supportive environment with opportunities for growth and development.

Your primary focus is to deliver high standards of personal care and contribute to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. Responsibilities include assisting residents with personal hygiene, recognizing and escalating clinical risks, and acting courteously toward residents and visitors while respecting their dignity and individuality. You will practice safe systems of work across a range of tasks.

Avery Healthcare is a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. With a vision of "creating meaningful lives together," the company is committed to offering exceptional care and creating a supportive, inspiring environment for residents and employees. Avery operates over 100 homes across the country, prioritising the wellbeing and enrichment of later life.

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Shift Details: 9:15 PM – 07:15 AM

At Avery Healthcare, we support the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams and are committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. We value respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care as part of our close-knit team. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Care Assistant to join our award-winning team.

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 to ensure independence, dignity, and respect at all times.
• Recognising and understanding clinical risk areas in residents (e.g., weight loss, pressure sores, risk of falls, signs of infection) and escalating identified risks in a timely manner.
• Acting courteously toward residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.
• Practising safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

About you

To be successful, 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 in the role.

Our ideal candidate must:

• Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate initiative and be respectful toward residents and others in the home.
• Be an efficient worker who can carry out reasonable instructions from other team members.
• Be adaptable and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

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 believe the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team. 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.

• While experience is not required, you should demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively, show initiative and respect toward residents, be an efficient worker who can follow instructions, and be adaptable and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities. Avery provides a thorough induction and training program to ensure confidence within the role.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and, as such, a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service is necessary to check for any previous criminal convictions.