Care Assistant

At Avery Healthcare, you will be supporting the people who care for residents, making a positive impact on their lives every day. Your compassion and dedication will truly make a difference. As a Care Assistant at Wandsworth Common Care Home in London, your focus will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.

Main duties of the job:

• Assisting residents with 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.

To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do. 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.

The role requires a DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare, and proof of eligibility to work in the UK. You will be paid £14 per hour.