Care Assistant

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, contributing to the care team, and ensuring the continuity of services. Avery Healthcare is committed to creating a supportive and inspiring environment for its employees, where they can grow and develop their careers.

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. A thorough induction and training programme will support you in this role.

• 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 and 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.

• Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents and other people in the home.
• Be an efficient worker able to carry reasonable instructions from other team members.
• Be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

• Experience is not required;
  Avery Healthcare offers a thorough induction and training programme.
• You must be able to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative and respect towards residents and other people in the home.
• You must be an efficient worker able to carry reasonable instructions from other team members.
• You must be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK’s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, offering exceptional care across a growing network of over 100 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 alike. With our vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we proudly build a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

• A DBS disclosure check, with the cost 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 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.