Care Assistant

Shift Details: 07:30 am - 14:30 pm and 14:30 pm - 21:30 pm, includes weekends and bank holidays

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

• Assisting residents in all their 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 and signs of infection, 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.

To be successful in your application, 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.

• 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 be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

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

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people with diverse experiences to apply.