Senior Care Assistant - Bank

Akari Care Limited; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Employer Pension contribution 3%

Recognition schemes

Wage stream pay app

Uniform provided

DBS check costs paid

28 days annual leave

Fully funded training and development

Personal development plans

Job summary

Akari Care Limited in Wakefield is seeking a Senior Care Assistant to deliver high-quality care, review care plans, and support social activities for residents. You will help supervise junior colleagues and uphold Akari's values in daily practice.

The role emphasizes creating a home-like environment, engaging with residents and families, and collaborating with the care team to maintain consistent, compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Experience as Senior Care Assistant or Care Assistant.
• Ability to deliver high quality care and contribute to care planning.
• Experience supervising junior staff.
• Alignment with Akari values: personalised, kind, caring, trusted, community.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the highest quality levels of care to residents, observe, review and finalise care planning needs.
• Assist and support social activities and supervise junior staff in an Akari value driven way.
• Create an environment like residents' personal home, accommodating visiting family needs.
• Work with care teams to maintain a supportive and welcoming atmosphere.

Skills

Caring nature

Communication

Flexibility

Warm and engaging

Respect others

Job description

Job responsibilities

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:

• A competitive salary
• 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:

• Personalised
• Kind
• Caring
• Trusted
• Community

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

Qualifications

Essential

• A caring nature, Good communication skills, Flexible and adaptable, Warm and engaging persona.

This 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.