Senior Care Assistant

Overview

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members alike, with a vision of "creating meaningful lives together". Avery is the preferred choice for both residents and team members, providing a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Senior Care Assistant – Your focus will be to support and work alongside the Care team to deliver high standards of personal care, creating a safe, caring, innovative, open, supportive, and inclusive environment for residents, visitors and staff.

• Monitor the wellbeing of each resident, identify changes affecting care and care plans, ensure new needs are met, and amend written records accordingly.
• Be involved in the person-centred care planning process, implementing, monitoring, and undertaking monthly evaluations.
• Support residents with their medication requirements.
• Undertake staff supervisions and support staff with their development as required.
• Act as a key contact for residents, relatives and visitors, and for health and social care professionals; respond to reasonable requests and escalate concerns or complaints as needed.

To be successful, you will live Avery values: caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable. Our ideal candidate must:

• Have an NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes.
• Have 2 years of experience in a similar care environment.
• Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Have a positive attitude to supporting and nurturing residents and staff.
• Be responsive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.

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 enriching, and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team. With the vision of "creating meaningful lives together", we offer exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 homes, providing a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975; a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be required to check for any previous convictions.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.