This role as a Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare in Bagshot offers the opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of residents every day. You'll be part of a supportive, close-knit team that values compassion, respect, and exceptional care. Avery is committed to helping you grow and develop in your career, with a thorough induction and training program to ensure you feel confident in your role.
Main duties of the job
As a Care Assistant, your focus will be on delivering high-quality personal care to residents, contributing to the care team to ensure continuity of services. You'll assist residents with their personal hygiene, recognize and escalate any clinical risks, and act courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting their dignity and individuality. Experience is not required, as Avery provides comprehensive training, and they're looking for individuals who live their values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable.
Job responsibilities
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.
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, sign 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.
Qualifications
* No specific qualifications are required, as Avery provides a thorough induction and training program. They're looking for individuals who can communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative, be respectful, efficient, and adaptable to cover a range of responsibilities.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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