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Job Title


Care Assistant - Nights


Company : NHS


Location : London, England


Created : 2025-06-24


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Avery Healthcare is one of the largest providers of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, committed to delivering exceptional care and enriching the lives of their residents. They are seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join their friendly, award-winning team as a Care Assistant, providing high-quality personal care and support to residents while ensuring their dignity, independence, and well-being. Main duties of the jobAs 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 involve assisting residents with their personal hygiene, recognizing and understanding clinical risk areas, and acting courteously towards residents and their visitors. You will be required to practice safe systems of work across a range of tasks. While previous experience is not essential, you must possess the ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate initiative, and be respectful towards the residents and other people in the home. Job responsibilitiesPackage Description: 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, and offer a variety of apprenticeships, and provide you with access to a range of leisure and retail discounts. 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 YouTo 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. Person SpecificationQualificationsNo specific qualifications are required, as Avery Healthcare provides a thorough induction and training program to ensure confidence within the role. Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.#J-18808-Ljbffr