NHS Jobs
Job role: Care Assistant
Salary: £13 an hour
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 1549425034
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About the Job:
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.
Other responsibilities will include:
- Assisting residents in all their personal hygiene care, ensuring optimum independence, dignity, and respect of individuals at all times.
- Recognizing and understanding clinical risk areas in residents, such as weight loss, pressure sores, risk of falls, signs of infection, 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.
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 program 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 out reasonable instructions from other team members.
- Be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
