Description
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 Frognal House Care Home in Sidcup, Kent, your focus will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.
Responsibilities 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, 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. You will need to have effective communication skills, demonstrate initiative, be respectful towards residents and other people in the home, and be an efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions from other team members.
The role requires a DBS Disclosure check, and applicants must provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
The salary for this role is £13.25 per hour.