Care Assistant - Bank inAvonmere Care Home inAvonmere Care Home PUBLISHED 8 OCT 2024

This is a temporary Care Assistant role at Avonmere Care Home in Downend, Bristol. The role involves providing high-quality personal care to residents during night shifts, with a focus on ensuring their safety, dignity, and independence. The successful candidate will be compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated, and will have the opportunity to develop their career through the company's training and development programs.

As a Care Assistant, your primary responsibilities will be to assist residents with their personal hygiene and daily living activities, while also recognizing and escalating any clinical risk areas such as weight loss, pressure sores, or signs of infection. You will be expected to act courteously and respectfully towards residents and their visitors, and to practice safe work methods across all tasks. The role requires the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative, and be adaptable and flexible in covering a range of responsibilities.

About us

Package Description:


Shift Details:
Night Shifts only , hours may vary

At Avery Healthcare we believe in caring for those who care for our residents; we recognise and celebrate our hard-working colleagues, support your career development with a variety of apprenticeships, and provide you with access to a range of leisure and retail discounts.

We are now seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our friendly, award-winning team as Care Assistant.


ABOUT THE ROLE

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 task.


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.


ABOUT AVERY

As one of the largest providers of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, we believe that the later years of our residents' lives should be as enriching as any other.Our vision of creating meaningful lives together is reached by the exceptional care and experience we proudly offer throughout our growing portfolio of over 100 care homes whilst establishing ourselves as the preferred choice for residents and employees.


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.

This is a temporary Care Assistant role at Avonmere Care Home in Downend, Bristol. The role involves providing high-quality personal care to residents during night shifts, with a focus on ensuring their safety, dignity, and independence. The successful candidate will be compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated, and will have the opportunity to develop their career through the company's training and development programs.

As a Care Assistant, your primary responsibilities will be to assist residents with their personal hygiene and daily living activities, while also recognizing and escalating any clinical risk areas such as weight loss, pressure sores, or signs of infection. You will be expected to act courteously and respectfully towards residents and their visitors, and to practice safe work methods across all tasks. The role requires the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative, and be adaptable and flexible in covering a range of responsibilities.

About us

Package Description:


Shift Details:
Night Shifts only , hours may vary

At Avery Healthcare we believe in caring for those who care for our residents; we recognise and celebrate our hard-working colleagues, support your career development with a variety of apprenticeships, and provide you with access to a range of leisure and retail discounts.

We are now seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our friendly, award-winning team as Care Assistant.


ABOUT THE ROLE

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 task.


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.


ABOUT AVERY

As one of the largest providers of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, we believe that the later years of our residents' lives should be as enriching as any other.Our vision of creating meaningful lives together is reached by the exceptional care and experience we proudly offer throughout our growing portfolio of over 100 care homes whilst establishing ourselves as the preferred choice for residents and employees.


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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