Care Assistant - Bank

Overview

This is a Care Assistant role at Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. The role involves delivering high-quality personal care to residents, recognizing and escalating clinical risks, and working as part of a supportive and inspiring team. The company offers a thorough induction and training program to ensure employees feel confident in their roles.

• Deliver high standards of personal care and contribute fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.
• Assist residents with personal hygiene, promoting independence, dignity, and respect.
• Recognise and understand clinical risk areas (e.g., weight loss, pressure sores, risk of falls, signs of infection) and escalate identified risks in a timely manner.
• Practice safe systems of work and demonstrate initiative, respect, and flexibility.
• Be courteous toward residents and visitors.

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. The company is committed to creating meaningful experiences for its residents and employees, offering a supportive and inspiring environment where everyone feels valued and empowered. Avery Healthcare has a vision of "creating meaningful lives together" and is dedicated to providing exceptional care across its growing network of over 100 homes.

Shift details: 12 hour shifts

At Avery Healthcare, we are dedicated to supporting the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you’ll be making a positive impact on residents’ lives every day; your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We are committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career.

As part of our close-knit team, you will experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Care Assistant at Springwood Corner Care Home in Kent.

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.

• Assisting residents in all personal hygiene care, ensuring optimum independence, dignity and respect 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 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.

To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all you do. Experience is not required as we offer a thorough induction and training programme to ensure confidence within your role.

• 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 reasonable instructions from other team members.
• Be able to adapt and be flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

At Avery, we are not just one of the UK’s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we are a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we’re passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team alike. With our vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we proudly 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.

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.

There is no further content to indicate an expiry; the advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

• Experience is not required;
  Avery Healthcare offers a thorough induction and training program. The ideal candidate should have the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative and respect, be an efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions, and be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.

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 (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.