Care Assistant

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Part time
Location: Virginia Water
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Job offered by: NHS
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Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of 'creating meaningful lives together'. They are passionate about creating an enriching experience for their residents and a supportive, inspiring environment for their team. This Part-Time Care Assistant role at their Virginia Water home is an opportunity to make a positive impact on residents' lives every day, delivering high standards of personal care.

Main duties of the job As a Care Assistant, your focus will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. This will include assisting residents with their personal hygiene and recognizing and understanding clinical risk areas. You'll need excellent communication skills, initiative, and the ability to be flexible and adaptive to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

Job responsibilities Package Description:

Shift Details:

Part-Time position, weekends only

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.

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.

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