Care Assistant - Bank

About Avery Healthcare

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, offering exceptional care across its growing network of over 100 homes. The company is passionate about creating meaningful experiences for its residents and team members, fostering a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Job Overview

Your focus as a Care Assistant will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our award winning team at Milton Court Care Home in Milton Keynes.

Job Responsibilities

• Assisting residents in all 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 escalating 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.
• Shift details: includes weekends.

About You

To be successful you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful and accountable in all that you do. Experience is not required as we provide thorough induction and training. Our ideal candidate must:

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

Requirements

• A DBS Disclosure check, cost covered 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• This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

Person Specification

• Experience is not required; we provide thorough induction and training.
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative, respect residents, be an efficient worker, and be adaptive and flexible.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.