Senior Care Assistant

Akari Care Limited; Blyth; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3% employer pension contribution

Recognition schemes

Wage stream pay access

Uniform provided

DBS costs paid

28 days annual leave

Fully funded training & development

Personal development support

Job summary

Akari Care Limited is seeking experienced Senior Care Assistants or Care Assistants ready to progress. You will work in a supportive home environment, delivering high-quality care, aiding care planning, and helping train junior colleagues.

The role emphasizes Akari’s values of kindness, care, and community. The position offers a pension contribution, recognition schemes, a wage stream pay option, uniform, DBS costs covered, generous annual leave, fully funded training, and development support to

Qualifications

• Demonstrates a caring approach to residents.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice.
• Warm, approachable and engaging with residents and families.
• Respect others and treat people as you would wish to be treated.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the highest quality levels of care to residents.
• Observe, review and finalise care planning needs.
• Support training and supervision of junior and new colleagues.
• Contribute ideas for social activities within the home.

Skills

Caring nature

Communication

Flexibility

Warm demeanor

Respectful

Job description

Are you already an experienced Senior Care Assistant or a Care Assistant looking to take the next step within your career? If so, we are looking for exactly the right type of people to be part of our supportive and inclusive community within our homes.

Working alongside the care assistants, you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality levels of care to our residents. This includes observing, reviewing, and finalising care planning needs, assisting, and producing ideas for social activities and supporting the training and supervision of junior and new colleagues in an Akari value driven way.

We look to our trusted care teams to create an environment where the atmosphere feels like our residents’ personal home, for them and their respective visiting family members, which suits all their individual needs.

About you:

• A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach,
• Good communication and relationship building skills,
• Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice,
• Warm, approachable, and engaging persona,
• Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated.

What is in it for you:

• Employer Pension contribution of 3%,
• Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes,
• We offer Wage stream - a money management app that you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it.
• Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid,
• 28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays),
• Fully funded training and development,
• Support with personal development plans

Whether you are an experienced carer or are starting a career in care, we are looking for colleagues who can make a difference for our residents within Akari Care. In case you had not guessed, our values are:

• Kind
• Caring
• Community

If you share our values, then we would love to hear from you.

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