Care Assistant

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, committed to creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members. They are seeking a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Care Assistant to join their award-winning team in Elstree. This role involves delivering high standards of personal care, contributing to the care team, and ensuring continuity of services to residents.

Main duties of the job

As a Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare, your focus will be on delivering high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. Your responsibilities will include assisting residents with their personal hygiene, recognizing and understanding clinical risk areas, acting courteously towards residents and their visitors, and practicing safe systems of work.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Shift Details: Due to the nature of the role and to maintain client comfort, this position may be more suitable for female applicants only.

At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. 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're committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career.

Other responsibilities will include:

• 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, signs of infections and escalate any identified risks in a timely manner.
• Acting courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.
• Practicing safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

About you

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 are proud to offer a thorough induction and training programme to ensure confidence within your role.

Our ideal candidate must:

• Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate initiative and be respectful towards the 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.

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.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.