Care Assistant

Care Assistant (Maternity Cover) - Nights

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, dedicated to creating meaningful experiences for both residents and employees. They are seeking a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Care Assistant to join their award-winning team on a permanent night shift basis.

Responsibilities

- Deliver high standards of personal care, contributing to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.
- Assist residents with personal hygiene while maintaining independence, dignity and respect at all times.
- Recognise and understand clinical risk areas (e.g., weight loss, pressure sores, risk of falls, signs of infection) and escalate identified risks promptly.
- Act courteously towards residents and visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.
- Practice safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

About the Role

Your focus as Care Assistant is to deliver high standards of personal care and contribute fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.

About You

To be successful, you will demonstrate caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable values. Experience is not required as Avery offers 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 towards residents and other people 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.

About Avery

At Avery, we are one of the UKs largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. 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 a vision of creating meaningful lives together, we offer exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Requirements

- DBS Disclosure check (cost covered by Avery Healthcare).
- Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Please note this role may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications and business needs.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

Package Description: At Avery Healthcare, we support the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams and aim to help you grow in a caring, supportive environment with opportunities to learn and develop. 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

- Assisting residents in all personal hygiene care ensuring optimum independence, dignity and respect.
- Recognising and understanding clinical risk areas in residents and escalating identified risks in a timely manner.
- Acting courteously towards residents and visitors, respecting dignity and individuality of each resident.
- Practicing safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

Qualifications

- Experience is not required; Avery offers a thorough induction and training program to ensure confidence in the role. The ideal candidate must have the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents, be an efficient worker, and be adaptable and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

Disclosure and Safeguarding

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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