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.
Main Duties
- 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 escalating 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 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 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 others.
- Be an efficient worker capable of following reasonable instructions from other team members.
- Be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
About Avery
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK’s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for residents and our team. With a vision of “creating meaningful lives together,” we offer exceptional care across over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.
Requirements
- DBS Disclosure check – the cost will be met by Avery Healthcare.
- Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
- Comprehensive induction and training programme provided – prior experience is not required.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Initiative, respect for residents and others.
- Efficiency and ability to carry out reasonable instructions from team members.
- Adaptability and flexibility 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 will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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